- 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
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Sometimes It’s What’s Inside That Counts
Not only does Spotlight search filenames, it can also search the content of files. Last year I was in Denver for a Photoshop seminar, and our team stayed at the absolute coolest hotel any of us had ever stayed in (with the possible exception of the Jefferson in Richmond, VA). Six months later, we were scheduled to go back to Denver and naturally wanted to stay at the same hotel. The problem was, we couldn’t remember the name. But I knew I had received an email with the itinerary for the earlier trip that would have included the hotel information, and assumed I would recognize the name when I saw it. I simply pressed Command-Option-Spacebar and typed “denver” into the Search For field. Since Spotlight displays the subject lines of emails in the search results window, all I had to do was glance down the list until—bada boom, bada bing!—there it was. The Curtis—that’s the one, baby.
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