> But the really cool thing is, NetNewsWire lets me make "smart lists", which > essentially search through all the stories from all the feeds I've > subscribed to, looking for just those stories that match my criteria. So, in > addition to my feeds that are arranged by topic, I have a collection of > smart lists that turn up a relatively few stories each day. If I'm in a > hurry, I only bother looking through those stories. If I have the time to > more leisurely browse, I can examine one or more topic folders in detail. > > Until I had tried it, I didn't appreciate how useful the RSS approach to > reading current stories, blogs, etc. would be. I haven't tried out the smart list functionality yet in either reader, but I would recommend that you try out Newsfire alongside NetNewsWire - it has a very nice interface and I believe provides all the same functionality. Cheers, Colin.