Awesome Highlighter for reference situations?

I came across an interesting tool a couple weeks ago called Awesome Highlighter - basically it allows you to quickly highlight a part of a web page and then send someone a link to the highlighted version of the page. I thought a simple tool like this could have uses in certain reference situations where I want to quickly show someone where on a web page they need to look for something. It allows you to keep a library of pages you've already highlighted for repeat use. It also comes with a Firefox add-on that allows easy access to the tool.

Is anyone using this in any way in reference situations? Has it been useful?

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Fitchett on July 20, 2008 at 6:28pm

Hi Mireille,

There is definitely a way - I found some instructions on their site - just scroll down a little to "Import Online Bookmarks".

If you want to keep using Delicious (eg if your friends already know you there, or just as a backup) you can set Diigo up to automatically save each bookmark both to Diigo and to Delicious. Instructions for that are here.

Cheers,

Deborah