Diving Into Diigo

http://edudemic.com/2010/07/5-new-diigo-features-you-should-know-about/

Diigo is a social bookmarking site similar to Pinterest. Its purpose is essentially to store things you might want to go back to in the future. It is a cleaner, more efficient way of "bookmarking" various sites so that when you want to find something later, you don't encounter an endless sea of text.

So far, I have mixed feelings about Diigo. One the one hand, I absolutely love the ability to highlight certain parts of a page, or to place a sticky note somewhere. It's nice to be able to add titles, labels and descriptions.

However, I tend to prefer the visual aspect of Pinterest. I know that some people feel that it's easy to lose track of pins. I find that I avoid this by creating many very specific boards rather than just a few general ones. Instead of "recipes" I might have "breakfasts", "appetizers", and "desserts", for example. This makes it much easier to go back and find things that I have pinned. My only complaint with Pinterest is that I sometimes struggle to choose which board to pin something to. A certain cake recipe might seem to fall under both "desserts" and "party ideas", but I dislike cluttering up my boards by pinning one pin in multiple places. In this area, the labels feature of Diigo is a big help.

I do think it is possible that I might still be on a bit of a learning curve with Diigo. I will definitely keep using Diigo, and see if my opinion changes over time.

For anyone who is interested, feel free to peruse my diigo library.

Have you ever used Diigo or Pinterest? how do you think the two compare?