At the beginning of the course I’m taking, “Create w/Code,” I was encouraged to curate my resources – to save and note all of the places that I’ve been online that are interesting to me and may prove useful in the future. Beyond typical bookmarking, it should be a place that should and can be shared with others. All good ideas. I chose to use Diigo and it was fine except that I didn’t always remember to use it, don’t have it installed on Safari, and realized that I had bookmarks in three different places. Enough.
I’m now just bookmarking as I used to always do in the past, on both browsers, and taking the time to export the ones of most value and posting them to my website. It takes a little time, but I can organize them the way I want, and retrieve them wherever I am:
http://www.jdedtech.com/links.html
It sounds like your routine allows you to be more mindful in organizing your resources and to revisit them to sort through which are more meaningful.
I have the Diigo bookmarker installed on ALL my devices.. but I must admit that I’m a messy housekeeper.
A while back I even set it up to send my Twitter favorites to Diigo – but most recently I am finding that use the Favorite button more like a LIKE button than a curation tool.. so I need to revisit that.
I do find that Diigo’s lack of “pinterest like visual’ appeal will probably continue to make it a less and less popular tool – but I do love the tagging features.
One of the reasons I let my students pick their tool.. is so they can make sure the tool that works best for them is the one they use (not the one that works for me)
Thanks for sharing.