We are proud to announce that “Diigo Teams” is now live and ready to help teams research online collaboratively on a level that is unmatched. From international fortune 500 corporations to small groups, “Teams” will vastly improve the way you and your teammates research collaboratively and share with simplicity and convenience.

           Sharing relevant content has never been this easy. Any information you find online can be shared throughout your entire team, where you and your team members can collaborate by annotating important pieces of content, tagging keywords, and leaving comments. From web pages, images, videos and PDF’s, “Teams” simplifies online research and will keep track of details including your team tags, the number of views a post has had, who made which annotation and more. Text based content will be displayed in our “Diigo Readability” view, which removes unnecessary ads and intrusions, letting your team focus on the important content while displaying annotations and offering various fonts and text sizes.

           All of these functions allow your team to create a centralized database of relevant content that is easily accessible and searchable by all or your members, all of your team’s research in one place. All content that is added to “Teams” is permanently stored on our secure private servers, so it will always be accessible even in the case that the original source no long exists.

           Managing your teams and keeping track of overall activity is streamlined through our administrative dashboard and general team overviews. Adding or removing team members, modifying individual teams or existing content, generating invoices and much more can easily be done by team administrators. All teammates will also be able to gain a basic view of individual member activeness through the activity leaderboard, which ranks individual activity for individual teams or overall throughout the company.

We understand that everyone has different platforms for consuming content that they are familiar with, so we made it easy to send content to “Diigo Teams” through various social media channels including Twitter, Pocket, Instapaper, etc. Integrations with Slack including in channel invitations and notifications are designed to keep your team up to date.

           When it comes to online research and curation, “Teams” has got you covered. All team members will also have access to Diigo’s “professional’ package for individual users, the highest tier available for personal use. Take advantage of our 10 years of experience organizing online content with an unlimited amount of Outliners and PDF annotations.

Try “Diigo Teams” for free, and see what your team has been missing!

https://team.diigo.com/

As we said in Diigo’s Refocus Back to Annotation  last April, Diigo would shift our primary focus back to “annotation”.  We made a big upgrade to Diigo website in October 2016.  Today,  we are glad to release the new Diigo extension for Chrome.

Here are some new features in this new version.

1. New design with simplified extension menu

2. Annotate articles in an ads-free reader
Annotating web article is a common use case among diigo users. However, many article pages are cluttered with ads, sidebars, headers and footers. A better reading experience comes together with a better annotation experience in this new version. Once you experience it, you will never go back!

3. Annotate your local PDF files directly in Chrome
Previously, to annotate PDF files, you needed to upload local PDF files to the Diigo website. Now with the built in PDF reader, you can annotate them in Diigo Chrome extension directly.  It’s  now faster and much more convenient to annotate PDF files.

4. Get support from extension
With the built-in “Send message” feature, it’s much easier to send support messages to the Diigo team and get  problems solved quickly.

5. Other features are still available in this new version

If you like Diigo extension,  please help us spread the word by giving the extension a 5-star rating on Chrome web Store.

For the past few months, we have been hard at work on our website revamp. What started with the intentions of mainly updating our UI, made us take a step back and really consider what Diigo has evolved into after all these years and receive feedback from our users. After getting in touch with our cherished user base, we are beginning to plan our future direction. Here is a quick overview of the incoming changes. Please note that nothing is set in stone yet, and we will continue to evaluate all feedback from our users.

     When Diigo was created almost a decade ago, our goal was to provide our users with a simple platform to organize your online content and easily annotate web resources. While we have achieved these goals to some extent, we have allowed more and more features and functions to creep in along the way, resulting in an experience that may feel confusing or bloated, especially for new/casual users. Thus, we realized that we cannot clean up our UI without focusing on the functions that our users really appreciate and phasing out certain features that have strayed too far in other directions.

     A major change will be our movement away from ‘social’ aspects in Diigo. While we may have been swayed by the ‘social media movement’, at the end of the day Diigo has always been more of a personal platform. The ‘Discover’ section, including ‘networks’ and ‘communities’ will eventually be phased out. This section has always been very underused, yet takes a large amount of resources to maintain. This change will also simplify user profiles, which will focus mainly on each user’s public library, removing functions such as ‘follow user’, ‘public search’ and ‘message user’. This will allow us to focus on improving Diigo’s core experience.

     ‘Groups’ will also be evolving to the benefit of its main users, educators and enterprises. Almost all of our active groups have been focused on education or private content sharing within corporations, so groups will be evolving into ‘Diigo Teams’, which will also add specific functionality for each usage case.

    We will keep you updated on these changes as we approach our final direction, and would love to hear from you regarding these developments. Please leave your comments below or feel free to drop us a message via care@diigo.com.

    Thank you for your continued support of Diigo. With your support, we can make Diigo better for you.

When Diigo was released ten years ago, our goal was to provide a social bookmarking/annotation service which would serve our users in two ways:

• To provide the best online bookmarking/annotation tool assisting our users’ reading and research online.
• The second is to leverage our users’ collections to create a social knowledge network to provide insight on what their friends and people with similar interests are reading.

Fast-forward to present day, Diigo has accomplished the first goal reasonably well, and through continuous improvement, we have maintained our leadership as the most popular and feature rich online bookmarking/annotation service in the world. Our goal to become a social knowledge network however has clearly been eclipsed by social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Quora.    

Therefore, ten years later, we are at a major crossroad with a huge decision to make.  Should we forgo our aspiration to be a social knowledge network, and remove all social features?

As our social functions are some of the least used portions in Diigo, yet require constant maintenance, this would allow us to focus on providing the best personal online annotation/research platform for our users.  

As always, we would love to hear from you, our cherished users, and take your input into consideration.  If you do use some of Diigo’s social features, let us know which specific ones you would like to keep or see enhanced.

Our Diigo browser extension for the new Firefox is now updated and live!

You can find it on the offical Firefox addon collection at:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/diigo-web-highlighter-and-stic/

Sorry for the delay, thanks for your support!

In an effort to focus our resources to our website upgrade, we will be removing the ‘My Messages’ function from Diigo by the end of February. 

The ‘My Message’ function has been rarely used, and does not fit in with our future plans for Diigo as a personal and collaborative research platform. This, along with the plethora of messaging platforms available, results in this function being phased out. 

We apologize if you have come to like this function, please understand that we will be bringing many more benefits with our upgraded site very soon

Thank you for your continued support of Diigo!