After countless hours, not to say years of work, we managed to release News Explorer 2.0 before the end of this year. News Explorer 2.0 contains an enormous list of new features and improvements.
The main new features are:
Comments
Read comments on articles directly in the new Inspector panel of the app. This works with feeds that have a comment feed per article or a comment API such as Reddit, YouTube and Hacker News, and with feeds of websites using Open Web for comments.
Prefilters
Prevent downloading stressful or uninteresting news by setting prefilters. Prefilters can be set on feed level in the new Feed settings dialog. Prefilters are synced via iCloud.
Notes
Create rich text notes, optionally based on highlighted text in the article, directly in the context of the article. Notes are synced via iCloud together with the article and highlighted text.
Filters
Create custom sidebar filters to filter news, using selection criteria on article metadata, feed metadata, custom tags and more. Filters are synced via iCloud.
Inspector
The multi-tab inspector panel gives direct access to all article metadata, including categories and custom tags, multimedia including slideshow and download options, article notes and article comments.
Accounts
Besides or instead of iCloud syncing, you can use a local account for storing feeds and articles. This is convenient for feeds that you don’t want to have on all your devices or if you don’t want to use iCloud at all.
Read the change blog to learn more about all other new features and improvements. The new version is a free update for all existing users, and is available on all Apple platforms.
Links
Blog article: https://betamagic.nl/news/2024/2024_01.html
Product page: https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032670789
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032668306
Setapp: https://go.setapp.com/stp166?refAppID=249
The main new features are:
Comments
Read comments on articles directly in the new Inspector panel of the app. This works with feeds that have a comment feed per article or a comment API such as Reddit, YouTube and Hacker News, and with feeds of websites using Open Web for comments.
Prefilters
Prevent downloading stressful or uninteresting news by setting prefilters. Prefilters can be set on feed level in the new Feed settings dialog. Prefilters are synced via iCloud.
Notes
Create rich text notes, optionally based on highlighted text in the article, directly in the context of the article. Notes are synced via iCloud together with the article and highlighted text.
Filters
Create custom sidebar filters to filter news, using selection criteria on article metadata, feed metadata, custom tags and more. Filters are synced via iCloud.
Inspector
The multi-tab inspector panel gives direct access to all article metadata, including categories and custom tags, multimedia including slideshow and download options, article notes and article comments.
Accounts
Besides or instead of iCloud syncing, you can use a local account for storing feeds and articles. This is convenient for feeds that you don’t want to have on all your devices or if you don’t want to use iCloud at all.
Read the change blog to learn more about all other new features and improvements. The new version is a free update for all existing users, and is available on all Apple platforms.
Links
Blog article: https://betamagic.nl/news/2024/2024_01.html
Product page: https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032670789
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032668306
Setapp: https://go.setapp.com/stp166?refAppID=249
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