Diigo needed, not a browser
I don’t want a browser. Why would I want a browser? I wanted a way to view my Diigo collection easily and - more importantly - a way to save to Diigo that works across apps on my iPad. Installing this gave me a ‘share to’ option (at last!) but then I noticed it had only been saving an image!? Not the URL. Maybe there’s a way to fix that but I can’t see it and it’s not intuitive. If I could find an alternative to Diigo I would be switching...
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Bugs persist for years
I’ve been using Diigo for years and the desktop web app is great but this iOS app has been plagued with bugs since its inception. Currently the biggest issue is that searching bookmarks is essentially nonfunctional. When I search for specific tags the results will show many bookmarks that don’t include the tags I’m searching for even though I know I have bookmarks with this combination of tags because I can see them in the chrome browser. Is there any point in using a bookmarks app that won’t show you the webpages you bookmark?
There’s also persistent sync issues between the iOS app and desktop web app.
After so many years how can such issues persist on a paid service? Are there any plans to address them?
You can’t send them feedback because their own content-delivery-network is blocking their support website due to security issues.
There’s also persistent sync issues between the iOS app and desktop web app.
After so many years how can such issues persist on a paid service? Are there any plans to address them?
You can’t send them feedback because their own content-delivery-network is blocking their support website due to security issues.
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Great app, until it started forcing the browser to open every time
This review is for the iOS app, not Diigo itself. Diigo is great, I use it all the time for research & organizing bookmarks. I used to use the app on my phone frequently to quickly access my library. Ever since the update that forced it to open the browser I've found myself hating it more and more. I used to be able to open the app on my phone & quickly find whatever link I needed, or look through an outline, whatever small task I needed to do on my phone. Now I open it & it loads some page I looked at three weeks ago that's usually irrelevant to whatever I'm doing currently, & I need to tap the Diigo icon to open a menu that will let me open my library and THEN I can search for whatever I need. Sure, it's "only" two more steps, but that's two more steps adding unnecessary frustration into my workflow. I'm disabled & have very limited energy to work with, so adding extra steps builds up. Often when I open Diigo I end up distracted from whatever it is I need to be doing because I'm once again searching for a way to turn this off & open my library, aka the thing I use the app for, on app launch instead. Everytime I hope maybe the developers have finally realized people should be able to control such a crucial function, and every time I am disappointed. That, or they're hiding it so well that it might as well not exist, especially considering the help pages on the website are extremely out of date.
If there was an option to open to the library by default again instead of the browser, I'd be giving this app five stars, because I really do love Diigo's overall functionality. But the ridiculous decision to force the browser on people at all times whether it fits with their workflow or not has seriously degraded the user experience of the ios app, so much so that I keep finding myself looking for a replacement despite the fact that I love the desktop version of Diigo. Diigo's strength is as a research & organization tool. Forcing the iOS app into a browser is absurd. Most people use mobile browsers that sync with their desktop, why would anyone give that up just because a research organization app decided to cosplay as a browser on mobile?
If there was an option to open to the library by default again instead of the browser, I'd be giving this app five stars, because I really do love Diigo's overall functionality. But the ridiculous decision to force the browser on people at all times whether it fits with their workflow or not has seriously degraded the user experience of the ios app, so much so that I keep finding myself looking for a replacement despite the fact that I love the desktop version of Diigo. Diigo's strength is as a research & organization tool. Forcing the iOS app into a browser is absurd. Most people use mobile browsers that sync with their desktop, why would anyone give that up just because a research organization app decided to cosplay as a browser on mobile?
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signs of life!
v 3.0 is a big step forward. Nice to have Multiple tabs 👍 But please 🙏 ...
EASY TO FIX
- Move "find in page" search box (and results navigation arrows) to BOTTOM of screen like every other browser b/c it is SO clumsy to repeatedly tap at top of screen to scroll through the results of a find
LESS EASY BUT MORE BETTER
- integrate my Diigo library results with my web searches (not only Google but alternative engines!) within the app, like you've done nicely for desktop browsers. That's SO handy.
- when sharing highlight/s (just one or all of a page's highlights) please please add quotation marks around each bit of highlighted text. Highlights are ALWAYS quotations, after all, and I'm sick of adding them manually. At least give users that OPTION in settings. (Ideally, any quotation marks already found in a highlight should be converted from " to ' since they become quotes-within-quotes. An app called ESSE does this nicely for iOS)
- Is Clean view gone forever? It was buggy as hell, but i miss its readability, night-mode colors and flexible font size.
EASY TO FIX
- Move "find in page" search box (and results navigation arrows) to BOTTOM of screen like every other browser b/c it is SO clumsy to repeatedly tap at top of screen to scroll through the results of a find
LESS EASY BUT MORE BETTER
- integrate my Diigo library results with my web searches (not only Google but alternative engines!) within the app, like you've done nicely for desktop browsers. That's SO handy.
- when sharing highlight/s (just one or all of a page's highlights) please please add quotation marks around each bit of highlighted text. Highlights are ALWAYS quotations, after all, and I'm sick of adding them manually. At least give users that OPTION in settings. (Ideally, any quotation marks already found in a highlight should be converted from " to ' since they become quotes-within-quotes. An app called ESSE does this nicely for iOS)
- Is Clean view gone forever? It was buggy as hell, but i miss its readability, night-mode colors and flexible font size.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback. We will look into the featues or issues you mentioned.
Used to be great
I used to love Diigo and have told so many people about it, but I always used it first and foremost as a bookmarking tool, NOT a browser. On Desktop (as a Chrome extension) it works really well, and the website needs some UX love but overall it’s decent and reliable. I also love the tag suggestions. However, on any mobile device it saves all items with just the URL and no proper title or description. More importantly, when I open Diigo, I am looking to see my bookmarks/saved items, not a browser. For that I would just use Chrome or Firefox. It’s very inconvenient having to go to a top hidden menu to access my saved items. Please change this and don’t compete with other browsers, we don’t need another browser.. focus on one thing and do it well!
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Such value - wasted?!
ETA: it’s been a while since the last major browser-focused updates and I’m still seriously missing the lost functionality. Please please just bring back clean mode w dark option. Pleeeeaaaase.
Diigo was the best thing since sliced bread, seriously. There was no intelligent reading online without it. But no more, sigh. At least not with the direction it’s heading - having shaved off priceless features like storing articles for offline reading and (in) a clutter-free reading view that allowed font size and background color adjustment.
Save Diigo! Save humanity!
Diigo was the best thing since sliced bread, seriously. There was no intelligent reading online without it. But no more, sigh. At least not with the direction it’s heading - having shaved off priceless features like storing articles for offline reading and (in) a clutter-free reading view that allowed font size and background color adjustment.
Save Diigo! Save humanity!
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Terrible
I have no idea how this works, and the help section is not helpful at all.
What’s the point about this fake chrome browser
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I don’t get it
The Diigo browser baffles me. Who actually uses it to navigate the web? I bookmark webpages from my computer or mobile safari and then I want to access my bookmarks library when I open the app. I don’t understand the point of trying to compete with Safari given iOS’s tight integration with it.
I get that viewing webpages in the browser enables functionality like highlighting. I love the highlighting feature. So I think it’s fine that bookmarks open in the browser. Why does the browser have to be the primary interface??
Now if this app were to sync with the Diigo desktop browser extension so that it showed all the websites I have open on my computer THEN the browser would be super useful. At that point Diigo would replace other solutions I use for browser tab management (like Toby).
I get that viewing webpages in the browser enables functionality like highlighting. I love the highlighting feature. So I think it’s fine that bookmarks open in the browser. Why does the browser have to be the primary interface??
Now if this app were to sync with the Diigo desktop browser extension so that it showed all the websites I have open on my computer THEN the browser would be super useful. At that point Diigo would replace other solutions I use for browser tab management (like Toby).
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Best Research Tool For The Internet
Very easy to use, and very useful in order to extract information from Internet publications. Organizational tools such as the outliners and data extraction are superb. I do research, Diigo is the core application for my work!
