A workaround to hide read items in NetNewsWire

Nov 02, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: cebailey

If you're anything like me, you love NetNewsWire, the RSS reader, but hate the fact that you can't hide all the items you've already read. It gets pretty annoying slogging through a year's worth of news (if you're saving it) to find that one unread item.

If the developer fixes this problem in version 3.0, then this workaround won't be necessary, but until then, here's a way to hide old news: simply put each feed in its own folder. NetNewsWire can nest folders several levels deep, so you can still use your existing folder structure. If you just want to see the unread items, click the folder; if you need to find an older article, the full archive of that feed is right inside.

[kirkmc adds: I've been doing this for some time. I have both folders containing multiple feeds (such as all my Mac feeds together) and other folders containing single feeds.

But it's not that NetNewsWire stores the old news, it's the feed itself that presents the old stories for a certain period of time. Note that the program's General preferences do allow you to choose between keeping stories until they disappear from the feed, or for a fixed period of time (you can set that to one day). You can also refine these settings for each feed by selecting the feed, pressing Command-I, then making changes to the Persistence section of the Info window.]

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