How to find and follow sites with NetNewsWire

Say you’re at apple.com in your web browser, and you want to get Apple news in NetNewsWire.

You don’t know where the site’s news link is — but that’s okay. Here’s what to do:

  1. Click the + button in the toolbar. (Or type ⌘-N.)

  2. Copy-and-paste, or type, apple.com into the sheet that appears, as shown below.

    Screenshot showing adding apple.com as a feed
  3. Click the Add button.

  4. Optional: If you want to put it into a specific folder, you can, if you’ve made some folders. Use the pulldown that appears to select your preferred folder. (Otherwise, leave it set to “All Sites.”)

NetNewsWire will then try to find the news link for apple.com, then add it to your list of sites. Most of the time this works — most sites make it so NetNewsWire can find the news link easily.

The upshot is this: any time you’re at a site, and you want to add it to NetNewsWire, just click the + button, then paste in the URL of the site, then click Add.