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February 27, 2007

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A humble feature request for NetNewsWire

Posted Feb. 27, ’07, 12:15 PM PT by Pat Nakajima
Category | Software

NetNewsWireBrent Simmons, creator of what I honestly believe to be one of the most significant apps to ever land in the OS X dock, is constantly working on his creation. I know this because Twitter knows this. After reading this post on his blog about feature requests, I must admit that I was a bit timid about asking for a new feature. What if I made a buffoon of myself? I know that MacUser at least has some semblance of rapport with one half of the Mac blogging software elite, but what if I were to alienate the other half? These are the questions that plague me at night.

Still, I do think that my workflow (or lack thereof) would benefit magnificently from the ability to export my open tabs in NetNewsWire to a bookmarks folder. Too eclectic? Maybe, but since I always seem to end up with 20 open tabs by the time I get through my feeds (partial feeds be damned!), I don’t find the idea to be so unreasonable.

I know that AppleScript provides a possible solution, but only if you’re unaware of my scripting abilities. Seriously, I make Tim “the toolman” Taylor look like Thomas “the Alva” Edison. So please Brent, if you’re listening, appease my tabular gluttony. I’ll be forever thankful.


2 Comments

Matt said:

tell application "NetNewsWire"
set urlsList to URLs of tabs
repeat with theURL in urlsList
open location (theURL as text)
end repeat
end tell

February 27, 2007 3:29 PM
Brent Simmons said:

In NetNewsWire 3 I've added an Export Tabs command to the new Tab menu -- but it's disabled, because I don't really know what it should do. It should export your list of tabs in some format.

But what format? I don't know what you'd find most useful, so please do let me know.

February 28, 2007 11:22 AM

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