I absolutely loved using Diigo. After catching on, I found myself constantly wanting to highlight and sticky note something. I think I added more personal thoughts to the readings than I would had I just printed them out and read them on paper. Maybe it’s because these were pretty interesting articles, but I definitely made more connections than I normally do. Usually, I struggle finding anything to say, or I’m too lazy to write annotations in the almost non-existent margins. I was a little hesitant about Diigo, initially. And, to be honest, I did not download the toolbar, because, well…I’m quite content with my present toolbar and I didn’t want to alter it. But, I decided to use the Diigolet and that works great. All I need to do is highlight whatever text I find intersting and I can make as many sticky notes as I want. The only issue I had was re-starting the Diigolet everytime I loaded another page – I guess it doesn’t remain open from page to page? Still, a very fun tool.
dchristal said,
April 15, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
I could not disagree with you more. I too used Diigolet, and had no problems with that. However, I just found the process very tedious, and found my fingers craving my fluorescent green highlighter. I made the bare minimum of comments, and had to try very hard not to throw my computer away in frustration. I can see why some people would like it, but I prefer to read from paper, and normally print all the articles out anyway, so the fact that I had to do my reading on the monitor was bothering me from the start. When it comes down to it, it’s a matter of preference, and I definitely would not pick Diigo over the old fashion way.