Some suggestions
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different color so I can quickly find them later.
Ability to search only within certain "fields" such as author,
subject, date, keywords, body, etc.
Ability to search within a parent folder / child folder. Or ?
Ability to filter a folder based on content within the author field,
source field, subject, date, keywords, or body. etc. (I have some
feeds that generate too much content to just quickly browse through,
it'd be convenient to be able to just search for anything with the
keyword "video").
Ability to set up search folders that are simple saved searches within
my existing feeds that automatically copy the positive hits to a
folder where the "saved search" is stored. I dont want to necessarily
set up a Google search for particular references, but I would like to
know if any of the subscriptions within a particular feed, folder of
feeds, or application-wide, have mentioned topics I'm interested in.
Within the Snarfer search result window I'd like to be able to copy,
delete, flag, or move a search result item to a new or existing
folder.
Ability to force a duplicates comparison of messages in a child folder
to find dupes and to selectively delete them (similar to the "Delete
Duplicate Messages" extension for Thunderbird). It'd be nice for it
to, say, compare the contents of the subject and/or body because some
of my search feeds generate a lot of duplicate content that simply
comes from a different source feed but the subject or the bodies are
the same.
Ability to create an exceptions filter either on a per-feed or
application-wide basis to automatically delete feed items I'm not
interested in. Say, for example, I have a keyword search feed for my
blog's name, but I don't want any results that point back to my own
blog. I could simply add an exception filter to delete anything with
my URL as the source of the item. Or, say, one of my feed
subscriptions is a referer report for my website. I'd simply like to
delete any referer for my site that comes from a search engine or from
my own site. Easy enough to do manually, but I have to do it every
time.
Reports showing me the size of the database storing my content and
options to manually kick off a database optimiaztion. Or something
showing me whether things are getting too large and that I need to
delete old content. And therefore ?
An option to selectively delete anything older than x-days in a given
child or parent folder even though I've set that folder to keep
everything. I can do that now by simply displaying the read messages,
sorting by date, and deleting anything older than a certain date, but
that's a hassle.
The ability to sort items in the newspaper view.
The ability to refeed items from my reading list by simly clicking a
button and selecting which blog I want to create a new post on. This
would fire up my browser with the blog post editor already loaded and
prepopulated with the either the full contents of the post I was
looking at with information on the author, the source blog, and the
original publication date or, if I had text selected, an excerpt in a
blockquote so that I can simply start blogging. Alternately, a simple
xmlrpc blog utility would be cool, too.
Similarly, the ability to bookmark an item at a social tagging site
(furl, del.icio.us, digg, shlashdot, stumbleupon, etc.) would be cool,
too.
Popup/status bar notifications of new items in selected feeds would be
nice. I don't need it for all feeds, but I'd be nice for feeds I'm
watching. (It could be optional to apply to all feeds, but I'd prefer
to select what gets my immediate attention.
Similarly, it'd be cool if Snarfer would automatically send an email
of the contents of a new feed if I've set up a watch filter on a
particular feed or on a search term within a feed. That way when I'm
at work, my home computer is still able to notify me of important feed
events. With some blog systems providing a "blog by email" capability,
this could allow Snarfer to be a re-feeder of sorts for relevant
keyword matches.