{"id":235,"date":"2006-12-12T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/235\/cheap-and-easy-nnw-syncing"},"modified":"2006-12-12T00:52:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T07:52:18","slug":"cheap-and-easy-nnw-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/235\/cheap-and-easy-nnw-syncing","title":{"rendered":"Cheap And Easy NNW Syncing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really love NetNewsWire<\/a> – it fits the bill for (almost) all of my aggregation needs. It even has a rather sophisticated syncing mechanism, which got even more advanced after the the product was purchased by NewsGator.<\/p>\n

\nBut syncing isn’t really for me. Don’t get me wrong, I want to read news from more than one machine – just very irregularly. And sometimes suddenly. I don’t want the overhead of syncing all the time<\/em> just so my subscriptions will be available when I happen to pop out of town for a few days.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe fact is, 95% of my news reading happens on my main development machine, and maybe 5% happens on my laptop. So my special low-tech version of “syncing” involves two simple steps:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure my laptop has the same subscriptions as my desktop.<\/li>\n
  2. Make sure the “unread articles” on either machine match my last reading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I found myself doing some pretty crazy things, like simultaneously “catching up” on one machine and then “marking all as read” on the other. Finally, I realized I didn’t need to be so particular about things. I could do just fine if I knocked out “almost all” of the posts I had already read on the other machine. How to do this? Pretty simple. Just mark everything<\/em> as read, and then mark everything after a certain date<\/em> as unread.<\/p>\n

    \nI decided to take that certain date<\/em> from a cue article. That is, an article I’ve selected in NetNewsWire. By running Mark Unread Since Date<\/a> while I’m looking at any article in NetNewsWire, I instruct the program to mark as unread every article released at that time or later. So I can browse through some recently read feed, select an article, and “go back in time” to the unread articles from that era and later. By identifying a particular post as “something I read,” I’m guaranteed that nothing I haven’t read will be omitted (assuming I finished “catching up” on the other machine).\n<\/p>\n

    \nThis really works for me. I’m careful to pick articles from a time that is “roughly a few minutes before I stopped reading on the other machine,” and have the easiest time of staying “in sync” between the machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I really love NetNewsWire – it fits the bill for (almost) all of my aggregation needs. It even has a rather sophisticated syncing mechanism, which got even more advanced after the the product was purchased by NewsGator. But syncing isn’t really for me. Don’t get me wrong, I want to read news from more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applescript","category-hacking","category-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}