Sync less, please?

I wish Net News Wire had a feature where in I could dictate the frequency of its updates.

This is how I read these days, compulsively, almost exclusively on NNW. I have a few feeds I follow. These feeds get updated through the day and night. Whenever I pick up NNW, it auto-updates.

Most of the feeds I follow do not get that many items in them on a daily basis. The HN feed gets many articles though out the day. And it lefts me feeling like I’m in this race to constantly get it to zero. I don’t everything, I mark things as read, which do not interest me.

That is not a nice feeling. I don’t want that feeling. But I have to get it to zero. I just have to.

The idea I had yesterday was this: how nice would it be, if NNW updated just once a day. At night, would be my preference. And then throughout the day, that count will not increase. It will just reduce. I will not be in this race to constantly checking the feeds, marking things as read.

I checked in the mobile app and this does not exist in the app.

I was a little sad about it.

I don’t know how others who use feed readers, read. Do they get the same feeling I get, to make sure everything is read, that there are no pending items?

Or do they ignore the notifications?

Or do they just read the today view and let everything else remain unread?

Or do they have like five feeds?

This is still better than read it later apps though.