NetNewsWire/Technotes/Roadmap.md

# Roadmap

<i>Updated Aug. 23, 2018</i>

This roadmap reflects thinking at the time of the last update. Anything can change at any time.

## NetNewsWire 5.0 for macOS

Features:

* Standalone feed reading (unsynced)
* Syncing via Feedbin
* Built-in smart feeds (today, starred, all unread)
* Searching
* Starring
* Keyboard shortcuts
* AppleScript support
* Inspector
* Sharing
* Feed and user avatars
* Mojave Dark Mode

Milestones:

[NetNewsWire 5.0 alpha](https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/milestone/1)<br />
[NetNewsWire 5.0 beta](https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/milestone/2)<br />
[NetNewsWire 5.0](https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/milestone/3)

(See [What Development, Alpha, Beta, and Final Mean for NetNewsWire](DevelopmentAlphaBeta.md) for definitions.)

## Future

Features:

* Notifications
* Gestures
* Feed Directory
* Thumbnail images in the timeline
* Microblog full-post rendering in the timeline
* Share extension
* Multiple windows
* iOS App
* Syncing via Feedly and other similar systems — not yet decided which ones exactly
* Syncing via CloudKit (maaaaaybe, if feasible)
* Smart feeds — edit and create
* Filters that run during refresh
* Scripted feeds (AppleScript and shell/Ruby/etc.)
* Hiding read subscriptions
* Hiding read articles
* Deleting articles
* Dinosaurs
* Dock menu items
* [Article themes](https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/issues/257)
* Back/forward commands
* [Article view zooming](https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/issues/38)
* [Import OPML from URL](https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/issues/136)
* [Traditional vertical layout](https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/issues/102)