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Insanely Great RSS archiving
procon | Jul 22 2006
I stumbled upon this nifty script that archives a webpage from NetNewsWire into Yojimbo. Feed reading is a big part of my inbox, and while NetNewsWire handles the reading part excellently, I haven't yet found great tools to archive RSS. I have some suggestions, but I'm curious to hear how researchers quickly and permanently save webpages or feeds. (There are great del.icio.us tie-ins, but with the ephemeral nature of the web, that's not a permanent solution, unless there's a way to automatically archive those feeds.) I'm torn about using Yojimbo. It looks beautiful, and is relatively easy to get information into. On the other hand, my current solution of archiving to IMAP mail is an open standard and accessible from my work PC. A script that archives a NNW window into an IMAP folder (instead of into Yojimbo) would be killer. An added bonus would be picking which IMAP folder at the time of archiving with a pretty Mail ActOn style interface. Another bonus would be to add archive buttons to the NNW toolbar, which on my wide monitor is mostly empty. Is such a solution possible? NNW already has a "mail contents of this page" command, so I imagine the work is using applescript to properly move that message along once it gets into Mail. Obviously a new solution is a lot of work, and I'm a useless applescripter, so I'm curious if other people have a good cross platform solution for saving articles. -Ari 1 Comment
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