How to read articles

Use the space bar

The easiest way to go through your articles is to just keep hitting the space bar.

If the current article has anything to scroll, it will scroll — this way you can read it to the end.

If there’s nothing left to scroll, then it will go to the next unread article.

You can read everything just by hitting the space bar.

Next Unread

After the space bar, the most important thing is the Next Unread command. There’s a button in the toolbar for it — but you can also just type ⌘-/.

Marking articles as read and unread

You might want to mark an individual article as read or unread. The ⌘-U shortcut will toggle between read and unread.

To mark an entire list as read, click the Mark All Read button in the toolbar. Or type ⌘-K.

(You can undo mark-all-read.)

Seeing only unread articles

To view all your unread article in a single list, click on All Unread in the upper-left of the NetNewsWire window. Or type ⌘-1.

To view only today's aritcles, click on Today in the upper-left. Or type ⌘-2.

You can also choose View > Hide Read Articles, or type shift-⌘-H, to see only unread articles for any site.

Selecting a folder in the sites list will always show only unread articles from the sites grouped under that folder.

Navigating

Left and right arrow keys will take you from the sites list to the articles list. Hitting right arrow while in the articles list will open that article’s web page — either in a new tab NetNewsWire (the default) or in your web browser.

Once you have multiple tabs open, you can cycle through them using Tab > Select Next Tab (or ⌘-}) and Tab > Select Previous Tab (or ⌘-{).

⌘-W will close the current tab.

Customizing the look of articles

NetNewsWire includes multiple ways to customize the appearance of articles. You can adjust font choice and size, width of margins, and whether to display content in Light or Dark Theme. Click the Style button in the toolbar to see these options.