NetNewsWire/Technotes/Roadmap.md

Roadmap

Updated Aug. 23, 2018

This roadmap reflects thinking at the time of the last update. Anything can change at any time.

NetNewsWire 5.0 for macOS

Features:

• Standalone feed reading (unsynced)
• Syncing via Feedbin
• Built-in smart feeds (today, starred, all unread)
• Searching
• Starring
• Keyboard shortcuts
• AppleScript support
• Inspector
• Sharing
• Feed and user avatars
• Mojave Dark Mode

Milestones:

NetNewsWire 5.0 alpha
NetNewsWire 5.0 beta
NetNewsWire 5.0

(See What Development, Alpha, Beta, and Final Mean for NetNewsWire for definitions.)

Future

Features:

• Notifications
• Gestures
• Feed Directory
• Thumbnail images in the timeline
• Microblog full-post rendering in the timeline
• Share extension
• Multiple windows
• iOS App
• Syncing via Feedly and other similar systems — not yet decided which ones exactly
• Syncing via CloudKit (maaaaaybe, if feasible)
• Smart feeds — edit and create
• Filters that run during refresh
• Scripted feeds (AppleScript and shell/Ruby/etc.)
• Hiding read subscriptions
• Hiding read articles
• Deleting articles
• Dinosaurs
• Dock menu items
• Article themes
• Back/forward commands
• Article view zooming
• Import OPML from URL
• Traditional vertical layout