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