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How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
1/1: How often do you use the Spotlight menu or window to search your Mac?
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Spotlight
After so many years of being anal with file management, it's been hard to remember to use spotlight on a regular basis. I already know where everything is going only a few folders deep at most.
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.)
never use spotlight menu
never use spotlight menu (totally disable it).
I stopped organizing my files
This could be a bad thing. Now instead of organizing my files, I just stuff them in my 'Documents' folder, and rely on Spotlight to find them. I also use it to find applications. I probably use it 10-20 times a day.
Ugh
Disabled spotlight pretty early on due to the bug where the process just runs wild. My poor iBook was practically melting. I went through the apple forums with all the other sufferers looking for a way to fix it but there is none.
Too Slow
Spotlight is too slow to replace an organized filesystem, at least for me. I had hoped that I could at least use it as an application launcher, but it's much much slower than Quicksilver, which is no speed champ itself for that matter. Butler is still proving to be vital to my OS X life...
mdfind, terminal...
on 10.4 server the spotlight was performing pretty poorly before 10.4.2.
Spotlight inefficient and frustrating for me
Unfortunately, Spotlight rarely orders the files I want so that the one I want is in the Top Hits list. For instance, I wanted to find a PDF of a file I reference very, very often. Because I refer to this file so often in written documents, if I type the exact filename into the Spotlight window, the file is never in the top set of hits. By the time I click "Show All" and click on the reveal triangles, I could have navigated the Finder hierarchy more easily. I would very much like Spotlight to "learn" files to which I commonly refer and move them to the top of the list.
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