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Instructional Media publication: 15 09/11/2014

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Save a Bookmark

Introduction

Save a Bookmark

Look at Your Library

Edit a Bookmark

View your Tag Cloud

View Your Bookmarks by Tag

Annotate a Bookmark with Highlighting

Annotate a Bookmark by Adding a Sticky Note

Hot Bookmarks from the Diigo Community

Return to Your Library

Need More Help?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Diigo Bookmarking Tool

Using Diigo

1. Run Google Chrome and go to any page that you would like to bookmark and save to your Library.

2. Click on the Diigo button (Fig 1, 1) in your Chrome browser and Sign In. Click on the Diigo button (Fig 1, 1) again, a menu will appear.

3. Click on the Save button (Fig 1, 2). A window will appear.

4. The title of the page (Fig 2, 1) that you are bookmarking will appear at the top of the window. You may edit this if you would like.

5. All bookmarks saved to a Diigo account are public to other Diigo users, unless they are marked Private. They are only shown to other Diigo users once about 9 or more people have saved the same bookmark. If you want to keep the address to the page private, click in the checkbox next to Private (Fig 2, 2). The title of the page will still be seen by others, but the address itself will not.

6. Click in the checkbox next to Read Later (Fig 2, 3) to make it appear in bold type in your Library, to help remind you to read it.

7. Click in the Add Description window (Fig 2, 4), and type one. It’s optional.

8. Click in the Input or select tags window (Fig 2, 5) and type keywords to help organize this in your Library. OR Click onto any of the Recommended words (Fig 2, 6) to add them as your tags, or keywords.

9. Click the Save button (Fig 2, 7).

Diigo is a free, cloud-based, bookmarking tool with digital highlighters, sticky notes, and features that allow you to organize, sort, share, and even collaborate. Build your own personal library that can be accessed from any device, PC or mobile. Assign your own keywords to each bookmark to locate it more easily later. Use Diigo to collect resources for yourself, for research papers, or to share with a group. This document explains how to save a bookmark, assign tags or keywords, edit a bookmark, view and use your tags, highlight text on a bookmark, annotate a bookmark with sticky notes, and view the most popular bookmarks and tags for that moment amongst all Diigo users.

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Look at Your Library

1. Use Google Chrome to go to http://www.diigo.com

2. Click on the Sign In button (Fig 3, 1) in the upper right hand corner of the Google Chrome window. A new page will appear.

3. Type your Username or Email Address (Fig 4, 1) and your Password (Fig 4, 2), click the Sign In button (Fig 4, 3). Your Library will appear.

4. Tags (Fig 5, 1) will appear in a list, on the left side of the window.

5. Title of the web page (Fig 5, 2) can be clicked to go to the web page.

6. The Description (Fig 5, 3) that you typed is shown below the Title.

7. The Tags (Fig 5,4) that you assigned to that web page are listed.

8. The Date (Fig 5, 5) that you last updated this bookmark is shown on the right.

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1. At anytime you can edit the Title of a Bookmark, the Description, and the Tags that you have assigned to it.

2. Put your cursor on top of the Title of a Bookmark (Fig 6, 1) and new buttons will appear to the right of it.

3. Click on the Edit button (Fig 6, 2). The Edit Bookmark window (Fig 2) will appear.

4. Type any changes, then click the Save button (Fig 2, 7).

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Edit a Bookmark

1. Use Google Chrome to go to http://www.diigo.com

2. Click on the Sign In button (Fig 3, 1) in the upper right hand corner of the Google Chrome window. A new page will appear.

3. Type your Username or Email Address (Fig 4, 1) and your Password (Fig 4, 2), click the Sign In button (Fig 4, 3). Your Library will appear.

4. Tags (Fig 5, 1) will appear in a list, on the left side of the window.

5. Click on View tag cloud (Fig 7, 1) at the bottom of the Tag list. A window will appear listing your Tags.

View Your Tag Cloud

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6. Tags that appear in larger text indicate that you have more Bookmarks that have used that Tag. Put your cursor on top of any Tag (Fig 8, 1) to see a count (Fig 8, 2) of how many bookmarks have used that Tag.

View Your Tag Cloud (continued)

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1. While viewing your Tag Cloud in your Library, click on any Tag (Fig 8, 1).

2. Your Library will display only the Bookmarks that you have saved and assigned that tag. This feature can help you locate your own resources, and focus on specific topics and areas of your resources.

View Your Bookmarks by Tag

7. Click on the x button (Fig 8, 3) in the upper right corner of the window to close your Tag Cloud.

Annotate a Bookmark with Highlighting

1. While viewing your Tag Cloud in your Library, click on any Tag (Fig 8, 1).

2. Your Library will display only the Bookmarks that you have saved and assigned that tag. In the example shown the Tag literature was clicked on in the Tag Cloud. The Library is displaying the literature Tag (Fig 9, 1), and the Bookmarks (Fig 9, 2).

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Annotate a Bookmark with Highlighting (continued)

3. Click on one of the Bookmarks (Fig 9, 2). A new window will open to display that web page.

4. The Diigo button (Fig 10, 1) will change to display a red ribbon. This is an indicator that you already have Bookmarked this page in your Diigo account.

5. Click on the Diigo button (Fig 10, 1) and a menu will appear.

6. Click on Annotate (Fig 10, 2).

7. The Annotate Toolbar (Fig 11, 1) will appear.

8. Click on the Highlight Pen button (Fig 11, 2) to change your cursor to a Highlighter Pen. OR Click on the down arrow (Fig 11, 3) to the right of the Highlight Pen button , then click on a different color Highlighter (Fig 11, 4). Your cursor will change to a Highlighter Pen.

9. Click on top of text on the web page, then drag your mouse pointer over it. Anything you select with the Highlighter Pen will automatically be Highlighted.

10. When you are finished, click the Highlighter Pen button (Fig 11, 2) in the Annotate Toolbar to turn off the Highlighter Pen mode.

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Annotate a Bookmark by Adding a Sticky Note

Although a Bookmark is public unless you make them Private, a basic Sticky Note is private. There are two types of Sticky Notes that can be created, the first is Anchored to highlighted text.

To add an Anchored Sticky Note to Highlighted Text

1. Go to any Bookmark in your Diigo Library. See the Look at Your Library section in this document.

2. Highlight some text on the page. See the Annotate a Bookmark with Highlighting section in this document.

3. Put your mouse pointer on top of the Highlighted Text. A small popup menu will appear (Fig 12, 1).

4. Click on the Speech Bubble button (Fig 12, 2) on the popup menu.

5. A small window (Fig 13) will appear.

6. Click inside it (Fig 31, 1) and type your note.

7. Click on the Save (Fig 13, 2) button.

8. Click outside the Sticky Note and it will automatically close.

9. The Sticky Note will appear as a yellow Speech Bubble button (Fig 14, 1) that is anchored to the end of the Highlighted Text.

10. To read it, put your mouse pointer on top of it and the Sticky Note window will appear.

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Hot Bookmarks from the Diigo Community

Floating Sticky Notes are useful for comments generally related to a page. They can be added to any page that you want to save as a Bookmark, or to one that you have already Bookmarked.

To add a Floating Sticky Note to any web page

1. Go to any web page using Google Chrome. Right-click in an empty area on the page, or on top of text and a menu will appear (Fig 15, 1).

2. Put your mouse pointer over Diigo (Fig 15, 2) on the menu, then click on Sticky note (Fig 15, 3).

3. A small window (Fig 16) will appear.

4. Click inside it (Fig 16, 1) and type your note.

5. Click on the Save (Fig 16, 2) button.

6. Click outside the Sticky Note and it will automatically close. You will have a small yellow Sticky Note (Fig 17, 1) on the page.

7. To move it to a new location on the page click on top of the small yellow Sticky Note (Fig 17, 1), drag and drop it to any location on the page.

8. To read it, put your mouse pointer on top of it and the Sticky Note window will appear.

To delete a Sticky Note

1. Put your mouse pointer on top of a Sticky Note to make it open the window with the note.

2. Click on the Trashcan button (Fig 18) in the lower left corner of the Sticky Note.

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Annotate a Bookmark by Adding a Sticky Note (continued)

1. Visit http://www.diigo.com or use the Diigo button (Fig 1, 1) in your Chrome browser to sign-in to your account.

2. When signed in, you will see My Library page with the Diigo Menu (Fig 19, 1) across the top of the page.

3. Click on Community (Fig 19, 2) to see the most popular Bookmarks for that moment from other Diigo users.

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After you have Signed In to Diigo you may want to return to your Library.

1. Click on the Diigo button (Fig 20, 1) in your Chrome browser, a menu will appear.

2. Click on the My Library button (Fig 20, 2) in the lower left corner of the menu.

Return to Your Library

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