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Advanced Search

Diigo's search service is so versatile and powerful that you won't have any
problems finding exactly what you're looking for. Just click on
>>Advanced Search next to the Search
button to access the following form for advanced search:







As an alternative to the above form, you can also use the following syntax for advanced search ( when
the "full text" option next to the search button is checked)

The search syntax above can also be combined and concatenated.

Multiple Category Search

In addition to bookmark search, the Diigo toolbar's
"MULTIPLE CATEGORY SEARCH" feature is extremely powerful, and allows you quick access to multiple search categories,
each with multiple search engines, and all customizable. ( In fact, many users
mention that Diigo's toolbar is worth installing for just this feature alone!)




In the example shown below, entering the search term "ajax" in the toolbar
search box, and clicking "Web" will
access the default web search engine. And accessing the pull-down menu under
"Web"  shows all the categories in which you can search. Clicking "Reference"
in the pull-down menu will send the search to the default reference search
engine ( in this case, Wikipedia).

 





To learn how to customize your search engine preferences, visit
Customize Search Menu.



Tips:

• All the above search features can be accessed through the
  right-click menu or content selection menu after selecting some words on a page. Selected words will
  be captured in the search box for your convenience.



• Use the Word Find and Highlight buttons to the right of
  the search box, to find and highlight words in the search box on the current
  page. (Note: this highlight, unlike highlighting by clicking
  Diigo button, is not saved.)
  



• For Firefox, to access search engines that are not the default search engine
  for that category, you need to go into the category submenu. You can also right-click the category to conduct search with all
  engines in the category, and search results will open up into multiple tabs.
  



• For Internet Explorer,  there is no category submenu.
  Instead, mouse-over the down-arrow to the right of the search button to
  access other search engines in the same category.

Customize Search Menu

To customize your preferred search engines in Diigo's "MULTIPLE
CATEGORY SEARCH", click "CUSTOMIZE" link in either
the Multiple Category Search pull-down menu, or in the toolbar Options:

in the multiple category search pull-down

in Toolbar's Options panel

The "Search Menu Customization"
page will show up:

 



Edit, drag and drop the search categories and engines until you're satisfied with the result.
When you're done, make sure to click "SAVE ALL", so all the changes you
made will actually be saved.

Tips:

• Click  a search category to list the search engines for that category. 


• Drag up and down search categories and engines to reorder, with the
  topmost in a list being the default.


• To add categories or engines, select from the preset list, or add custom
  ones.


• Edit or delete search categories and engines by clicking the icons..


• When editing a (preset) category, checking  the option "Shown on
  toolbar" will move the search button for that category from the
  pull-down menu to the toolbar. So put the most frequently used search
  categories right on the toolbar for one-click access, and leave the less
  frequently used categories in the pull-down menu.
  
   
  
  
  
  
  

  Select category, and click "Edit" icon

  Once expanded, check off "Icon" box

  
  

  Reference Search Icon will then be shown on your toolbar:
  
  
  
  

Diigo

A must have for researchers

Diigo is a research tool that lets you share bookmarks and annotations on web pages using a browser plugin or bookmarklet. Notes are anchored to highlighted text and bookmarks save a cached copy of the site. Diigo will also let you save to multiple other bookmarking services (all the big ones) and email your annotated pages to friends who don’t have the plugin. We covered Diigo earlier.

Diigo has some advanced search functionality built in as well. With Diigo, you can search for the highlighted words on the web with any of four search engines, social bookmarking systems, on blogs, within the current site, amongst inbound links, and seven different content verticals (TV, stock sites, etc.). Diigo also lets you post links to your blog through posts, or a “linkroll” widget listing your most recent annotations.

Discover Best On The Web

The Diigo Community page is where the latest
bookmarks, highlights and comments from all users show up. Go there to discover
the hottest / most interesting sites of the web and tap into the collective
wisdom of Diigo community!

Invitations & Friends

Diigo is not just a great personal tool for web annotation, but is also a social
network of people and information, where you can find the best of the web
through people, not machines! A lot more "social" features are forthcoming.

Invitations

If you want to invite your friends to Diigo, send them an invitation by the
Diigo system. You can either do this by selecting "INVITE
MY FRIENDS" from the toolbar, or by using the box next to your bookmarks
in the "My Bookmarks" section:







Just put in their email-address, and click "SEND
INVITE". They will receive an email with a standard text, telling them
that you invited them to try Diigo.
If you want to write some text of your own, click on "PREVIEW
INVITE", where you will then have the option of changing the invitation
text:







Clicking on the exclamation mark (i) in
the upper right corner of the box will show a history of the invitations you
have sent out.

Friends

The people who have accepted your invitation to Diigo will show up as your "My
Friends" in the sidebar of "My Bookmarks"
section.  Like the rest of the sidebars in this section, "My
Friends" is collapsible if you click the title:

How To Use Diigolet

The first thing to remember about Diigolet is that it is not available until
you request it by clicking the Diigolet button. And once you go to a new page,
you have to request it again.

So to view or make annotations on any page, click the "Diigolet"
button. A slim "Diigolet toolbar" will slide down on the top of your browser
as shown below. Our system will prompt you to enter your username / password.
(Note: click "Hide" to make the Diigolet toolbar disappear, and click
"Diigolet" button again to re-appear.)

Now that Diigolet is active for this page, if there is any highlight or sticky
note on that page for you, then you should see them

To bookmark a page, click "Tag this page". A bookmarking window will
slide in from the left. (Note: click on any space and the window will
disappear.)







To Forward a page, also first click "Tag this page", then click "Forward"
link as shown above.



To highlight some text, select a block of text, "Highlight" link will
automatically show up. Click it to mark the highlight:







To add a sticky note, simply mouse-over the highlight, "Add Sticky Notes" link
will automatically show up.

Set-up

To  set up the Diigolet, go to My Tools"
download page

Then, follow these instruction:


 

Once done,  you should see Diigolet on the top of your browser,
and you are ready to go!

What Is Diigolet?

Like Diigo toolbar, the DIIGOLET  is a browser add-on.
But unlike the toolbar, it does not require pre-installation, and instead it is
made available upon request. This type of light-weight browser add-ons are
sometimes called bookmarkelet.  Of course, Diigolet does much more than
simple bookmarking -- it provides the basic Diigo functions such as highlight,
sticky notes, and forward. - hence it is really a bookmarklet on steroid, or a
super bookmarlet!

Although definitely not as powerful and convenient as the Diigo toolbar, as a
lightweight
alternative, DIIGOLET
is especially useful when you are using a PC that you cannot or do not
want to install any software.

RSS

Diigo offers full RSS integration. You can use an RSS feed to keep track of
bookmarks, simply by subscribing to it in your favorite feed-reader, e-mail
application or web browser. There are RSS feeds for every user's bookmarks, any
tag and of course your Diigo subscriptions.

The RSS button can be found below the bookmarks (on the
bottom of the page). Just do a right-click, save the link and paste it into your
favorite feedreading application.

Diigo Icons

This section holds Diigo buttons and logos for you to use:

Add To Diigo

Webpages that are bookmarked to the Diigo website gain additional
exposure, especially when bookmarked by a lot of people.  If you want to
encourage others to add your own website or your blog post / article to their Diigo
bookmarks, you should include the "Add To Diigo"
button in your webpages.



To generate the script,
go to Add to Diigo, and choose the button style.
Then, copy & paste the code into your own website's source code.



 

Ways to Use Blog-This

"Blog This" for a particular body of text

When you found something interesting while reading a webpage, you can spontaneously highlight a block of content and click "Blog This" button from the toolbar or the right-click menu:

Since this page has not been bookmarked yet, only your highlighted content (text, picture, or table of data), the page's title (link to original page) get automatically posted to an editing window, all nicely formatted, and ready for you to edit. On the left panel, choose which of your blogs (multiple allowed) and category to post to. You can post as draft or directly publish to your blog.

"Blog This" for an annotated page

Once you have annotated a webpage with highlights and sticky notes, you can make a blog post based on this annotated page by simply click "Blog This" button.

Because you have bookmarked this page, all your highlights and notes, along with Diigo members' public notes on that webpage will get automatically posted to an editing window, all nicely formatted and ready for you to edit. You will have an additional choice to edit based on "My Diigo Contents" only, or "Include All".

"Blog This" based on contents on a subject

Frequently after doing research on something, you have found relevant information on multiple pages. You can now easily "Blog This" based on contents on a subject by going to "My Bookmarks" section, checking off desired bookmarks, and selecting "Blog This" from the "More Actions" pull-down menu:

All information you entered and extracted will automatically be pre-populated in a new blog post editing window. This makes it very efficient for you to compose a new article based on various online content you've already researched!

Blog-This Platforms Support

Currently we support the following platforms:

• WordPress Blog


• Blogger Blog


• LiveJournal Blog


• Typepad Blog


• Movable Type Blog


• MSN Blog


• Drupal Blog

We can auto-detect most blog platforms, but few blog platforms listed below require extra steps to setup. If somehow you still experience any difficulty, please inform us in our User Forum.

Movable Type (improved):

Moveable Type has a new version release. With the new version, your API
password may be different from your blog password now.

Therefore, what you need to do is to first double check your API password by going
into your blog’s Admin panel (Admin panel >> Author >> password), then
use your API password when we ask you to enter your blog
username/password.

MSN Live Space:

Before setting up your Diigo "Blog This" interface account, you need to
first enable your blog API setting in your MSN Live Space (see instructions
in http://msdn.microsoft.com/live/gettingstarted/spacesstart/default.aspx)

Follow the steps below to enable Publishing on an MSN Space and specify a secret word:

• If you do not have a Passport account, create one at http://www.passport.com.


• If you do not have a Space, create one at http://spaces.msn.com.


• Go to Edit Your Space->Settings->E-mail Publishing.


• Turn on E-mail Publishing.


• Choose a secret word.

The MSN Live Space name and secret word are used as your user name and password
when you communicate with the MetaWeblog API. For example, if the URL
for a Space is http://spaces.msn.com/members/carnage4life, the user name
for the MetaWeblog API is carnage4life. The password is the secret word
that is provided during the steps above.

Once the above steps are completed, please follow through our regular procedure of adding a new blog to your Diigo account.

Drupal:

On the Drupal side:

• Login to your Drupal admin section


• Go to admin/modules and make sure the Drupal BlogApi module is enabled.


• Go to admin/settings/blogapi, select the Metaweblog type

On the Diigo side:

• Let Diigo auto-detect your API first by entering your blog's URL


• Input your Drupal blog username and password


• Edit the API, in Blog Type/Service: change Blogger ==> Metaweblog


• (Note: Drupal's default blog API is Blogger, but it doesn't support blog title.)

Enhanced Linkrolls

Diigo provides several ways to connect your social annotation to your
blogging experience. Both Diigo's "Enhanced Linkrolls" and "Blog-This"
offer very unique blog-integration features unlike any other services out there!





Like other Linkrolls, Diigo's Enhanced Linkrolls let you have your latest
Diigo bookmarks displayed as a part of your site.  But that's not all.  Enhanced Linkrolls let you share your
annotated webpages
with the world, so that your site readers can click and view your latest
annotated webpages along with your public highlights / sticky notes.



So with minimal effort,  you
literally have an
instant collaborative platform right on your site that lets you share
your two cents on any webpage,  and further invite discussions from you site
visitors, all perfectly within context.




In addition, you also have the option of retrieving and displaying only
bookmarks with a certain tag (or tag combination such as "tag1+tag2"). This
is very helpful when your site caters to a specific topic. You can also
create multiple linkrolls according to your need.




To generate the script for Diigo's Enhanced Linkrolls,
go to linkrolls, select the display options.  Once
the script is generated,  copy and paste it into
your site's source code.



Diigo
Enhanced Linkrolls

Here is what it looks like once the codes are copied to your site's sidebar. 
Notice that any bookmark marked with your highlights, sticky notes, and comments
will have an "EXPAND" link next to it. 
Click "EXPAND",  all the public
annotations on that webpage will show up in a small pop-up window.



Note: if there are public annotations made by other Diigo users, one can also
click on their username and go visit their Diigo page. This is a great way to
facilitate further information exchange for those commented on the very same
webpage and easily let you and your readers identify those who share common
interests!

Bookmark Search Basics

The Diigo on-site search lets you search your own as well as everybody's
(public) bookmarks. Both full-text search and tag-based search are supported,
using the same search interface shown below, by checking with "tags" or
"full-text".







The first input box above specifies the scope of search.
When "All" is selected, you will be
searching the entire public bookmarks of the Diigo community, whereas "My"
will only search within your own bookmarks (both private and public). 

You can
also directly enter a specific username instead of selecting All
or My to search
that user's public bookmarks.

Searching bookmarks in full-text will search the title, tags, comments, and the full text of each bookmarked page. Thus, when searching for several
search words in full-text, the search results are those bookmarks which contain all the search words in its title, tags, comments, or the full text.