I thought I might actually have a very old diigo account. I don't remember it very much at all so I wasn't even sure which email I may have used to sign up for it. Luckily when trying to sign in it notifies you that "the email doesn't exist" (I find it so annoying when sites don't do that. What a great feature for those of us having multiple email addresses used for various things). That way I was able to use the "forgot password" feature and get back into this long dormant account. I have no real idea of when I signed up for this account. Sometimes I have an idea of when I started using or used a certain tool by which email address I use but in this case I used my FSU address and since I have had this email for many years as first an FSU college student and then as an employee of the university it could have been anytime in the last 10 years. So I found it an interesting exercise to go in and see what I had saved in diigo to determine if I was able to see when I must have used it. But I was disappointed because all I ended up seeing was a PacMan ghost; apparently I didn't get much into using it when I did sign up. One of the things that makes me happy and more likely to use it this time around it that it has a Chrome extension, yay! This will make it much easier to use for me since I pretty much use Chrome exclusively and love how extensions seamlessly interface with my browser. I also see that it allows users to annotate PDF files that they bookmark, which is a great feature (although somewhat limited in the free version). I also appreciate that there is a "Read Later" feature. I used to use a tool called Pocket which allowed you to save articles and websites for later viewing and it makes perfect sense to have such a feature embedded in a bookmark saver/curator. I also like that you can annotate specific pages that you bookmark so you have an area that you can collect notes related to that specific page. The sticky note feature is very handy, too. It allows you to make a note directly over a certain section of the page and when you revisit the page, it's in the same spot. Both annotations and notes appear on your main diigo page, which is also a great way to see all of them organized onto one page.
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