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Diigo - Digging Deep to Collect, Annotate, Organize & Share Your Online Resources

  • Alissa G.
  • Feb 23, 2016
  • 2 min read

After poking around the internet for some new tools to help me get organized for school and work, I discovered Diigo. As I am restarting my academic career with an online program, I thought that having an online place to collect, organize, highlight, and store any articles, websites, images, and resources that I could access anywhere would be a lot more useful that just storing everything on my personal laptop which mostly stays at home. I really like that it comes with a Chrome extension that lets you quickly save a page, mark the page to come back to, share the page for a group project, and quickly grab a screenshot.

A big advantage of Diigo for me as a student and a professional is that there is a Community where I can search the resources that others have gathered or search Hot Tags for keywords that are relevant to me. Like Twitter or LinkedIn, I can build a personal network of people (and their research) that I can follow and who follow me (and my research). For me, this a is great way to quickly crowd-source resources that I may not otherwise have found or had access to.

One of the drawbacks of Diigo is that not all features are available to free users. Of the three paid plans, the main benefits as go up the pay scale are increased storage, full text searches of resources, no ads, and more seamless access to features on the site without continually proving you are not a robot when joining groups or following people. More for me to explore there as I use it.

I think I'll start finding Diigo a tool that I use more often as I get further into my degree and as I start to find more overlap with what I'm learning in my courses and what I can apply in my work as an Instructional Designer. I've already had a few instances when I've wanted to bring some resources from my classes into one of my work meetings and I can now just pull it up on my phone to share it or send it to a colleague via email or social media. Not to mention the time it will save me from having to search through my browser history or try to remember the exact keyword search that I used to find the resource.

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