Compare Save to Notion and Diigo: Which Extension is the Best?

Save to Notion is a browser extension that allows you to effortlessly save web content directly to your Notion workspace, enhancing productivity and organization.
Diigo is a handy tool for bookmarking, highlighting, and annotating web pages. It has many features, but its old design and limited highlight colors might make it less appealing.
Key Features
  • One-Click Saving: Quickly save web pages, articles, and images to your Notion workspace with a single click, ensuring that important information is never lost.
  • Customizable Tags and Properties: Organize your saved content with tags and custom properties for easy retrieval and categorization.
  • Template Support: Use and create custom templates to standardize the way information is saved, enhancing consistency and efficiency.
  • Cross-Device Sync: Access your saved content across all your devices, ensuring that your information is always at your fingertips.
  • Integration with Notion: Seamlessly integrates with your Notion account, allowing for a streamlined workflow and easy access to your saved content.
  • Batch Saving: Save multiple items at once, reducing the time spent on organizing and categorizing content.
  • Customizable Saving Options: Choose how and where your content is saved within Notion, providing flexibility to suit your organizational needs.
  • Highlighting: Works well and highlights are recreated on refresh.
  • Notes: You can add notes to your highlights.
  • Link Creation: Create links to your highlights, although this feature is not very reliable.
  • Sidebar Outliner: Simple design but requires time to understand.
  • Syncing: Highlights are synced across devices.
Our Rating
8.5
7.8
Total users
405,503
200,000
Total ratings
1,376
2,319
Average rating
4.3 ⭐
4.6 ⭐
Entry Level PriceFreeFree
Chrome
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4.4
3.85
1.3K+ ratings
400.0K+Users
Chrome Web Store logo
4.6
3.56
2.3K+ ratings
200.0K+Users
Edge
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Firefox
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4.2
4.21
67 ratings
5.5K+Users
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Safari
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Features
9.0

Save to Notion offers a comprehensive set of features that make it easy to save and organize web content.
The one-click save feature is particularly useful for quickly capturing information without interrupting your workflow.

The ability to highlight, tag, and organize content directly ensures that you can easily find the content you need later.

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Another very useful feature is the screenshot function. Either the entire page or just a desired part is screenshotted and then a description is immediately added, which is saved directly in the desired page on Notion.

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The support for templates and batch saving may not be intuitive to set up at first, but it saves the user a lot of time when saving similar information.

8.5

Diigo offers basic features for a highlighter and bookmarking tool.

It works well and we were able to highlight most websites and they were recreated when revisiting them.

The highlighter popup makes it easy to highlight text offering 4 colors. It looks like this:

Highlighter Popup with four colors

We would have wished to have more color options.

Also, note-taking and the tagging functionality are working, but its design does not look appealing.

Notes Editor: Adding notes to your highlight

The dashboard where your highlights are stored works well and gives you an overview of all your highlights.

Diigo Dashboard
Performance
8.5

The extension works perfectly. In our tests, the information is saved quickly and synchronized across devices. However, some users write in their reviews about occasional performance problems, especially when logging in and synchronizing.

8.0

Diigo performs well in terms of highlighting and syncing across devices. The fact that highlights are always synchronized can cause some loading delays.

It's not as fast as other highlighters that use an offline-first approach, but it works reasonably well.

However, the unreliable link creation feature and the simple sidebar outliner design need improvement.

Design
8.0

The Save to Notion design is clearly laid out. In our opinion, it could only be a little more intuitive when setting up templates for the first time.

7.0

The design fulfills its functionality. The design of Diigo is outdated and could use a modern refresh.

The lack of a nice overview of all your highlights on the page itself means you have to open the dashboard on diigo.com instead.

The dashboard on diigo.com is okay, but other highlighters like Web Highlights have a much nicer user interface.

Value for Money
9.5

The free version of Save to Notion offers excellent value for money, and the premium plan, at $36 a year, offers additional features at a reasonable price for those needing advanced functionality. Especially compared to Notion's official extension “Notion Web Clipper” we tested, you get a lot of features here.
However, it must be borne in mind that you will quickly reach the limits of the free Notion version by saving website content and will need a paid plan.

8.0

The free version of Diigo offers basic features and is fine for most users. The paid plans are reasonably priced and similar to other highlighters.

However, we think other highlighters offer more value for the same price.

Ease of Use
7.8

The extension is easy to set up and use. Only the creation of templates can be a little confusing for some users at first. If you are already a Notion user, this should not be a problem. Some users also report login problems, but this was not the case in our test.

7.8

Diigo is fairly easy to use, but the sidebar outliner takes some time to get used to.

You can't see all your highlights on the page itself, so you have to go to the dashboard on diigo.com.

We wish there was a sidebar to quickly access all our highlighted pages, like in the Web Highlights extension.

Security & Privacy
8.5

Save to Notion uses industry standard security measures to protect user data. As with any online service, you should be aware that all saved data is stored with another third-party provider in addition to Notion via the extension.

7.5

Diigo takes reasonable steps to protect user data. However, since you need an account and your data is stored in their database, absolute protection can't be guaranteed.

We think a highlighter should work without needing to sign up, but this feature is missing in Diigo.

Conclusion

Save to Notion is a great tool for anyone wanting to save and organize information and increase productivity. For anyone who works with Notion, we think it's a must-have. This is simply due to the ease of saving highlights and screenshots in one click. Although users report occasional problems with logging in, these did not occur during our tests. In our opinion, the overall performance with the price-performance ratio is currently the best for Notion users.


Anyone not currently using Notion should first test Notion and check whether it is right for them, or check the paid packages, as the free limits are quickly reached here.

Diigo is a handy tool for collecting stuff from the web, like bookmarks, highlights, and notes.


It’s a good deal with its premium plans, but the old-fashioned design and limited highlight colors might be a turn-off.


If you want something that looks nicer and offers more customization, check out alternatives like Web Highlights.

Our Recommendation

In our comparison between Save to Notion and Diigo, Save to Notion came out on top, scoring 8.5.

Save to Notion is the most widely used, with over 406k users and 1k+ reviews—and it also delivered the strongest performance in our tests. User reviews for Save to Notion reflect our findings, while we rate Diigo lower than users do.

Notably, Diigo has the highest user rating in the Chrome Web Store at 4.60, which is even higher than our rating of 7.8.

There are some noticeable differences between these extensions, so it's worth considering your priorities and the details below.


  • Looking for the richest feature set? Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 9. On the other hand, Diigo lags behind in this area with a rating of 8.5.
  • Need top performance? Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 8.5. On the other hand, Diigo lags behind in this area with a rating of 8.
  • Design lovers, take note: Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 8. On the other hand, Diigo lags behind in this area with a rating of 7.
  • Want to get the most for your money? Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 9.5. On the other hand, Diigo lags behind in this area with a rating of 8.
  • Ease of use? It's a tie: Save to Notion and Diigo. In the Ease of Use category, Save to Notion has scored a decent 7.8. It is generally easy to use, but some aspects might be less intuitive.
  • With privacy and security becoming ever more important, Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 8.5. On the other hand, Diigo lags behind in this area with a rating of 7.5.

If you want a quick recommendation, Save to Notion is our top pick. But as always, the best choice depends on what matters most to you.