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Diigo

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Save web resources, annotate pages and PDFs, highlight and add sticky notes, organize collections with Outliner, sync across devices, filter by tags and folders, share with groups, and access advanced search and flexible privacy for individual or collaborative research projects.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Online
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Google Chrome
  • Safari
  • Mozilla Firefox
3.3 / 5 Avg rating (12)
304likes
14comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Bookmark Organization
  2.  Highlighter
  3.  Text Highlighting
  4.  Save web page for offline use
  5.  Social Bookmarking
  6.  Bookmarks
  7.  PDF annotation
  8.  Annotate Screenshot
  9.  Real time collaboration
  10.  File Tagging
  11.  Web Clipper
  12. IFTTT icon  IFTTT Integration
  13.  Document Annotations
  14.  Browser Sync
  15.  Browser extension
  16.  Share Bookmarks

 Tags

  • collaborative

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    POX added Diigo as alternative to Linkzary
    15 days ago
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    dnever added Diigo as alternative to Faved
    29 days ago
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    POX added Diigo as alternative to Stashy
    about 1 month ago
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    paoramen added Diigo as alternative to fika bar
    about 2 months ago
  • Danilo_Venom updated Diigo
    about 2 months ago
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    Danilo_Venom added Diigo as alternative to Pocket
    about 2 months ago
  • xylopire liked Diigo
    2 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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    POX added Diigo as alternative to Curi.ooo
    4 months ago
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
xxxxx
Oct 10, 2021
4

still relevant in 2021... the sad thing: development is stalled, there is still support but no new features for years. the good thing: even though development is stalled, this is still the best bookmarker/annotation tool/highlighter on the market. it just works great. better than hypothesis or memex (diigo is just faster, can handle 10k items without slowdowns, and the highlights presentation is better more compact. Liner's highlights are somewhat similar). It can save webpages, images, pdfs, import kindle highlights, works great with ifttt.

Top Negative Comment
Mehrad Mahmoudian
Jun 17, 2015
5

This review has two parts, positive and negative, but it is mostly lean towards negative side for apparent reasons.

Positive: Diigo lets you:

  • have multiple colors in your highlights
  • have private or public annotation
  • organize your bookmarks in your profile
  • have native browser extensions (good bye bookmarklets)
  • have native Android app
  • cache web pages to have what you annotated regardless of the website's update
  • take screen captures
  • share your annotations with a group of users
  • annotate PDF from your web browser and save it on their server (PDF + annotations)

Now the negative side which forced me to stop paying them to be a premium user:

I used it for about a year or more and I was a premium user, the site was mostly functional and it was growing with acceptable pace until December 2014 that they announced a feature called "Outliners" as a new version of the features they had as "Lists". Outliners were (and at the moment are) very buggy, ugly and in practical as you can see in the following forum discussion in their website support section: http://feedback.diigo.com/forums/76211-ideas/suggestions/6803419-make-outliners-optional-and-return-lists-as-option

Here are the reasons why I say Diigo support team is bad:

  • Dictatorship: The Diigo team forced users to switch to Outliners. This caused loss of user data and annotation order.
  • Irresponsibility: Users (mostly premium users) asked Diigo to let them know about the progress of developing Outliners but they never replied (refer to the discussion link)
  • obstinate: stubbornly refusing to answer users, stubbornly refusing to read users suggestion to ease the conversion and progress of moving to Outliners. (refer to the discussion post)
  • Poor support: every few months, they add a feature to their website and specially the Outliners section but bug reports are piling up without any action taken by the devel or support team.

The hilarious part was premium users was paying Diigo and also trying to work out a solution and designing new features for FREE (!!) and yet Diigo team was just ignoring them and draining money out of our pockets.

Currently I'm trying to test multiple other services: Hypothes.is Annotateit.org annotary.com Scrible.com

The first two are lacking so many features and extremely ugly. The two latter ones are more closer to Diigo concept and so far I'm trying to decide which one is better to stick to it.

LouiseA
May 7, 2024
0

Simple to use. It adds the highlighted text as an abstract instantly. We can change the title, add tags. And most of all, it creates RSS feeds from our tags. Why not 5 stars? Sometimes the tagging won't work while bookmarking the pages, you have to go back in your library to add them.

TBayAreaPat
Jul 2, 2023
0

Supplies a simply organized repository for bookmarks. Let's you tag items. Takes a little looking around to figure the layout of the site. It brought in a Realtor site and 3 help links that I had a little confusion removing. I went under "not in outliner" and was able to remove from there. Last update seems to be 2016 and it seems there are some unusable artifacts, but still worth my while.

jokergaming1014
May 8, 2022
-1

the best web clip and annotation tool, just a litter bit expensive

gridan
Jun 21, 2020
1

I have been using free version for 9 years. Unfortunately there is no free (windows + android) alternatives with better features.

Mizzi Crazi
Jun 18, 2020
-2

I thought i could save bookmarks but cudt

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What is Diigo?

Diigo - Your Learning, Simplified.

Collect Save and tag your online resources for easy access anytime, anywhere

Annotate Annotate web pages and PDF's directly as you browse online

Organize Organize your links, references and personal input to create a structured research base through Outliner

Share Share your research with friends, classmates, colleagues or associates

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Diigo information

  • Developed by

    US flagDiigo
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $5 and $10 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.3 (12 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    125 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Portuguese
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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Our users have written 14 comments and reviews about Diigo, and it has gotten 304 likes

Diigo was added to AlternativeTo by vagabondher on Apr 16, 2009 and this page was last updated May 23, 2025.