Feedly vs Diigo- a battle for my affections

I know I have spent the past few weeks espousing my love for Feedly, and I have been using it daily. I found it really easy to use, to add new sites, read articles and have all sites I look at easily accessible.

I might have found a new love though- Diigo. I found Delicious quite difficult to use and kept going around in circles but, I can see the benefits of it. It became a bit simple when I added the button to my book marks bar.

So I had a go at Diigo, which I found quite easy to use and add links, especially with the extension. The thing that really sold me on Diigo, especially for University Work is the ability to highlight and annotate webpages. I love this feature, as it means you don't have to save lots of webpages onto your computer and you can read them anywhere.

I think the difference between Feedly and Diigo, is on Feedly I can easily see what I websites have been updated, but on Diigo I can bookmark them for future use, instead of using the bookmarks tool. Unfortunately, Diigo and Chrome bookmarks are not synced (and there seems to be a lot of people quite unhappy about this on the Diigo forums), so to I will have to manually move all my current books marks over. I really like the tags feature, so I can tag sites with things like chocolate, dessert etc, and then when I need a recipe for a certain occasion I can find them all easily. And of course I can do it for university work to!

Like, Feedly and Delicious you can create networks and groups which would be good for working on group projects etc. A lot of the youtube tutorials relate to Teacher's sharing resources and I can definitely see the benefits of that.

You can also link Diigo annotations and notes to blogs, which I think I have worked out how to do, but it will update at midnight tonight. We'll see what happens!

This week the group also had to explore Google Documents. I have used this tool quite a lot for assignments and group collaboration both at uni and at home. Most recently my brother and I wrote our speech for our little sister's 21st birthday on it. The ability to both have access to the updated document is very useful, and can be applied to so many situations. We discussed our experiences on platforms such as Diigo and Delicious on this doc, and it seems we all had quite similar experiences. A few people, like me liked Diigo more, but Delicious still has some good points.