Filtering out older feeds from RSS in Sunrise?

divirtual · 12-17-2005, 12:39 PM

I recently stepped up from a Palm IIIxe to a Palm TX, and have become a fan of Sunrise / Plucker!

One question: Has anyone figured out a way to filter out older (say 3 months, 6 months, or even 1 year) content? I was doing fine on other feeds, until I linked to http://www.engadget.com/ and got a 27 Mb download. (That took many hours to send across an infrared link!)

What I really would like to do is have a "mark as read" on entries (not entire feeds), but that's probably asking too much ....

Alexander Turcic · 12-17-2005, 12:44 PM

divirtual,

when I checked the Engadget feed, the oldest items were from two days ago. What settings are you using with Sunrise to download Engadget?

Laurens · 12-17-2005, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by divirtual

One question: Has anyone figured out a way to filter out older (say 3 months, 6 months, or even 1 year) content? I was doing fine on other feeds, until I linked to http://www.engadget.com/ and got a 27 Mb download. (That took many hours to send across an infrared link!)

Sunrise XP will have more sophisticated feed handling, including aggregating feeds over time and filtering items by date. One idea I've been experimenting with is creating multiple "issues" of a feed, using a date stamp to distinguish between them. You would have, for instance, three issues of Engadget named "Engadget 051217", "Engadget 051218", "Engadget 051219", each containing the feed items for only that specific date. This would sidestep the problem of not being able to mark items as read/unread.

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Originally Posted by divirtual

What I really would like to do is have a "mark as read" on entries (not entire feeds), but that's probably asking too much ....

This is not possible, as the Plucker document format is essentially static and read-only.

divirtual · 12-17-2005, 01:32 PM

Alexander,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexander

What settings are you using with Sunrise to download Engadget?

I had set a link depth of 2, I think. (I can't be sure, because I've now deleted the document off my Sunrise list, although I've still got the 27MB file on my Palm).

If you have any suggestions, I would welcome them. (I assume that you're bringing Engadget offline).

Laurens · 12-17-2005, 02:39 PM

One other solution I've considered for Sunrise XP is using the Bloglines API to retrieve a list of "unread" items from your Bloglines account. This way you can use Bloglines to manage your newsfeeds, leaving the items you want to read later as "unread", then fetch those using Sunrise.

Laurens · 12-17-2005, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by divirtual

I had set a link depth of 2, I think. (I can't be sure, because I've now deleted the document off my Sunrise list, although I've still got the 27MB file on my Palm).

If you have any suggestions, I would welcome them. (I assume that you're bringing Engadget offline).

Lower the link depth to 0 or 1.

12-17-2005, 12:39 PM	#1
divirtual Member Posts: 12 Karma: 100 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: Treo 650	Filtering out older feeds from RSS in Sunrise? I recently stepped up from a Palm IIIxe to a Palm TX, and have become a fan of Sunrise / Plucker! One question: Has anyone figured out a way to filter out older (say 3 months, 6 months, or even 1 year) content? I was doing fine on other feeds, until I linked to http://www.engadget.com/ and got a 27 Mb download. (That took many hours to send across an infrared link!) What I really would like to do is have a "mark as read" on entries (not entire feeds), but that's probably asking too much ....

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12-17-2005, 12:44 PM	#2
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	divirtual, when I checked the Engadget feed, the oldest items were from two days ago. What settings are you using with Sunrise to download Engadget?

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Laurens Jah Blessed Posts: 1,295 Karma: 1373 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Netherlands Device: iPod Touch	One other solution I've considered for Sunrise XP is using the Bloglines API to retrieve a list of "unread" items from your Bloglines account. This way you can use Bloglines to manage your newsfeeds, leaving the items you want to read later as "unread", then fetch those using Sunrise.

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