I think the iPad is a great device for exploring my RSS feeds. However, quickly moving through the feeds is not the end of my personal process. What I want to do is to find the resources I think will be valuable in the future and then store links to these resources, potentially with annotations, in an organized way. Diigo is my service of preference for storing, organizing, annotating, tagging, etc. these resources.
The challenge I have been facing is that none of the RSS readers I have tried offer a way to submit a resource to Diigo.
So, Reeder, for example, is a great tool. It offers many ways to share content (see above), but the many options do not include Diigo. Maybe there is a technical reason for this. Perhaps certain companies do not cooperate. I don’t know.
Diigo has finally introduced an app for the iPad. An iPhone app was available before, but the newer app was developed specifically for the iPad. The app itself is not that important because I am more interested in getting content into Diigo than being able to use Diigo itself on the iPad. The Diigo app comes with a snippet of javascript that can be added as a bookmarklet into Safari. Tap the button and the Diigo options appear.
I am not claiming this has worked well for me. I cannot get the “highlight” function to work consistently. I can seem to save bookmarks consistently.
Now, I have a tedious, but I guess workable method for adding links to Diigo on the iPad. I can identify resources in a reader, send the link to Safari, and save the bookmark to Diigo. I hope this gets better, but at least for now it kind of works.
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