NetNewsWire: Cured!

I had previously written about my NNW addiction. Here's an update. Despite a heroinesque addiction to blogs, news, and other pointless stuff (and oh, much of it is indeed without a point. Like CNN.), I have managed to trim my daily NNW fix considerably using a combination of schemes.

First, I got a real job. My new job requires me to work pretty much all the time, so there's precious little time to spend reading blogs.

Next, I'm trying out the Heavy (non-Lite) version of NNW. I wanted to try it out for the purpose of syncing my news site OPML files across several computers. It (sort of) works for that, but as a side effect, this has increased the number of sites that I check regularly, since I had different site lists on different computers and merging them makes a bigger list.

Between those things, what has happened is that every time I fire up NNW there are more unread stories than I can possibly read. Coincidentally, when I originally created the icon above for the original post, I had to mark a bunch of stories unread to get the 201 unread items before taking the screen shot. I did it for effect. As I write this, however, I really do have 201 unread stories, and I'm probably not going to read more than a handful. I'll just skim thru titles as quickly as possible, read just a few articles, and then toss the rest.

Problem solved!