iCalToRSS is a tool I wrote partly because I wanted to find out how difficult it would be to do. With NetNewsWire 2.0’s “Special Subscription” functionality and PyRSS2Gen it turned out to be pretty easy. I also wrote it because unlike iCal NetNewsWire is a tool I keep running on my PowerBook constantly and I thought it would be a perfect place to keep track of my iCal TODO items.
So what are my plans for further development of iCalToRSS?
- Short Term
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- Make iCalToRSS work for as many people as possible.
- Fix any errors with the calendar file parsing code.
- Medium Term
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- Allow the format of the RSS feeds to be user configurable: allow the user to specify the format of the feed titles and descriptions, only provide feeds for events that are less than N days old, event sort order, filter by event/TODO item etc.
- Find a method to make NetNewsWire treat a news item as unread.
- Long Term:
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- Provide simple one step configuration editor that will allow the user to add iCal feeds to NNW with-out having to mess with paths and URLs in NNW’s special subscription dialog.
- Provide a stand-alone version of iCalToRSS that works with any RSS aggregator.