Already tried Mento and Clipmarks? - ※Fu※

Clipmarks, I have. But, it's the collaborative note taking features I like about Diigo. I'd like to be able to write stickies on web pages and see what other people wrote as well. I'll have to look into Mento. - Gerard Barberi from twhirl

Send me a mail, i'll send you an invitation to mento: funana [at] gmail bla. - ※Fu※

I tried Diigo about a year ago; it was "quirky." Perhaps I should give it another chance. Bet it'd be a useful teaching tool. FU, I sent you an e-mail. - Kimberly J

Thanks for the offer, Fu. I looked into Mento. It's ok, but the annotation feature of Diigo is what's attracting me. Their social profile features are what turns me off. What is this "comment on my wall" stuff? Is it a social bookmarking service or a network like Facebook? Unnecessary feature. - Gerard Barberi from twhirl

I think the Diigo is very good for it's annotation features, but they have added a lot of ads to the the website recently which makes it difficult to navigate. I have been using Mento as a tool for sharing links and I like it a lot. I have it feed each post to Ma.gnolia. I use Diigo when I want to annotate a page (mostly highlighting and personal notes) which I also feed to Ma.gnolia. Ma.gnolia is set up to be my central repository for all the other services. Clipmarks also feeds to Ma.gnolia. - Sean Brady

Sean: I don't really visit the actual site (plus I have ad block), so that doesn't really bother me. I do do the same as you. I have Diigo feed every thing into Del.icio.us. It sorta lets me keep using del.icio.us, but use the annotation features of Diigo. - Gerard Barberi

Can you guys summarize what you like about Diigo annotation versus Del.icio.us? I have my stuff in Del.icio.us now (just started 2 months ago), and dread switching... - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell: can't really say too much about it since I just started using it. Basically, you can highlight chunks of text and leave public/private sticky notes on them. And, you can see the public notes of others. There's also a group feature. You can also import your bookmarks into Diigo and have it post new bookmarks to del.icio.us as you go along. So you can have both. - Gerard Barberi

Mitchell: I use Diigo just for the option to highlight and comment on pages. Basically lets me do research online like I am used to on paper. Read the article, highlight the main bits, and then extract just those comments with a quick scan of the page. I am also looking at Shared Copy for the same functionality. - Sean Brady

@Gerald .. The FF Scrapbook addon is also pretty good as well (If you do use FF). Allows you to highlight pages, comment on them and leave notes. Includes offline reading as well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - Maki

Mento - forget the rest! ;) - Dieter Schwarz from NoiseRiver