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Re: How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
I often use Spotlight searching five or more times an hour as a navigation tool. Instead of tediously navigating through certain wide and deep hierarchies to get to a particular folder I want to work in I'll search for an item I know is already in that folder, then reveal it in Finder (with command-R) to open its containing folder. It "flattens" the hierarchy so I don't care how deeply a folder might be buried in it. And whenever possible I'll first highlight some text to search for in a Service-enabled app, then use shift-command-F to Spotlight it (and ignore the console warnings that produces :-)).
Re: How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
I was using LaunchBar, but then I thought "okay okay I'll give Spotlight a try", but it's SLOW, I want instant! So I disabled it and got Quicksilver. Now I reinstalled and just turned Spotlight indexing off and use Quicksilver. command-space for QS and command-option-space for Spotlight. It's a good combo: QS for apps real quick and Spotlight for, well, I'm not sure yet!
Re: How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
I have been using spotlight to launch apps, which is really nice since it avoids both dock bloat and the need to open a new finder window to launch an app. However, I do agree that it is a bit slow. If this Quicksilver would be a good alternative, where could I get it?
Re: How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
Quicksilver is available here. I find it much more useful for day-to-day use of my computer than Spotlight. In fact, I think that Spotlight has been overhyped. I would have rather received a Finder that is faster to respond.
Re: How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
I use Butler to launch apps, which performs a similar role in my system as quicksilver in yours... command-space runs butler search (two letters is all it takes to pick an app, then return). i have set spotlight to F1 and F2 for menu bar / spotlight window respectively...
Re: How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
Just out of curiosity, why did you switch from LaunchBar to QuickSilver? I'm a long-time LB user (and love it) ... is there a reason I should look at QS? (One thing I love about LB is it's "adaptive learning" capability ... and that I can go into it's Config and customize what keystrokes it will recognize to open a particular app/file.)
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