Whats the best way to use Spotlight?
Ok, so I've installed Tiger, played with Dasboard, and watched the RSS screensaver. Now, down to business. I know Spotlight is, and will be, a powerful addition to the Mac OS, but what is the best way to use it?
In my 24 hours of Tiger, I have found it to be a nicely organized search tool. But what about metadata? How should I approach my many files so that I can begin to build a good organizational structure?
Are you doing anything differently to work Spotlight into your daily Mac workflow?
In my 24 hours of Tiger, I have found it to be a nicely organized search tool. But what about metadata? How should I approach my many files so that I can begin to build a good organizational structure?
Are you doing anything differently to work Spotlight into your daily Mac workflow?
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Originally posted by Keda
Ok, so I've installed Tiger, played with Dasboard, and watched the RSS screensaver. Now, down to business. I know Spotlight is, and will be, a powerful addition to the Mac OS, but what is the best way to use it?
In my 24 hours of Tiger, I have found it to be a nicely organized search tool. But what about metadata? How should I approach my many files so that I can begin to build a good organizational structure?
Are you doing anything differently to work Spotlight into your daily Mac workflow?
You can't add metadata with Spotlight. Also, there are good reasons not to dump everything into one huge folder.
Spotlight indexes the contents, so for now users can add stuff to the Spotlight Comments of files (under the Get Info pane for a file), or make sure that important tags are in the file contents itself.
I'm sure someone is working on a batch-add-comments-to-Spotlight-comments-field AppleScript as we speak. If they haven't, I'll start working on one.