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5 Spotlight Power Search Secrets: Jonny Evans
5 Spotlight Power Search Secrets: Jonny Evans
5 Spotlight Power Search Secrets: Jonny Evans
You use Spotlight (Command-Space) all the time, right? Or perhaps you
use the search bar in your Finder windows? Did you know you can make
your searches even more accurate with Boolian queries and other Spotlight
Search operators? Here are a few good examples:
Pete or Pierre?
Are you looking for something written by someone, but you aren’t sure if
that person is called Pete or Pierre?
author:pete OR author:pierre
And Spotlight will look for items containing that phrase that happen to
have been written by Pete or Pierre.
Searching your Mac for an email from a contact? You get too many results.
If you know the message was sent between April 1 2015 and March 27
2016? Just write the following in your search bar and it should be easier to
find.
Travel documents
trip kind:document
This searches for the word “trip” in documents only. Or use the word
images instead of document to ensure only images are searched through,
or music to search through your music collection.
Keywords
To use a keyword, enter it followed by a colon, then enter your search term.
For example, enter “author:Jonny” or “title:Lisbon.”
Find Screenshots
kMDItemIsScreenCapture:1
And if you want to search for a specific shot, just put the name of the item
in front of the search, eg:
lions kMDItemIsScreenCapture:1