tlrobinson.net blog » AppleScript http://tlrobinson.net/blog Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:37:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 "Mark Old As Read" for NetNewsWire http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/11/mark-old-as-read-for-netnewswire/ http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/11/mark-old-as-read-for-netnewswire/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:58:28 +0000 admin http://tlrobinson.net/blog/?p=73 Continue reading →]]> I recently heard about an RSS reader (can’t remember which) that had a feature to mark all messages older than a certain threshold as “read”. I thought this was an incredibly useful feature, since I often forget to check my feeds for days at a time, and end up with hundreds of unread items that I don’t have time to read.

Luckily my current RSS reader, NetNewsWire, has AppleScript built in, so I whipped up this script that prompts for the number of days you want to keep as unread, and marks the rest as read.

tell application "NetNewsWire"
    display dialog "How many days old to mark read?" default answer "7"
    set numDays to text returned of result
    set threshold to (current date) – (numDays * days)
    set isRead of (headlines of subscriptions where (isRead is equal to false and date published < threshold)) to true
end tell
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