- You Cant Use It If You Cant Find It
- Spotlight Menu: Its Fast, Easy, and Always There
- Open Your Top Hit Fast
- Get Smarter with Just One Click
- Daniel Webster Would be Jealous
- Break the Top 20 Barrier
- Put Some Limits on Spotlight
- See What You Wanna See
- Change the Order of the Results
- Use Quick Look to Be Sure You Have the Right File
- Spotlight Window
- Refine Your Searches in Spotlight Window
- Add Items to the Search Criteria pop-up Menus
- Saving Spotlight Searches as Smart Folders
- Power Searching Is, Uhhhh, Powerful
- Sometimes Less Can Be More
- I Search, Therefore I Find
- A Little Help With More Complicated Searches
- Dont Know the Exact Filename? No Problem
- Sometimes Its Whats Inside That Counts
- Avoiding Junk Search Results
- Search Inside Your Photoshop Documents
- Spotlight Menu Versus Spotlight Window
- Searching the System Preferences
- Opening? Saving? Spotlight Will Help
Don’t Know the Exact Filename? No Problem
What are the odds that I’m going to remember the exact filename for something I saved last month? About the same as remembering the name of a file I saved five minutes ago—nada. Fortunately, Spotlight’s not picky and will take whatever information you can give it and start searching. If you know you created the file during a certain time period, enter the dates in the search box like this: “date:1/1/08-1/17/08” (no quotes, in case you haven’t caught on to that yet). You sent an email to some friends about how you might have to put on jeans instead of shorts because it’s supposed to dip below 50° in Tampa tonight, and you want to be sure to send it to your buddy in Chicago who just got buried by a blizzard. You know the subject line included “Brrrrrr,” so type “kind:message subject:brrrrrr” and see what you get. You get the idea. Start typing and see if you get close enough for Spotlight to figure out what you’re looking for.