It isn't so annoyingly stupid like Spotlight. For months, I open a single file called TODO.TXT via Spotlight. I enter T..O..D.. and select TODO.TXT from the lis

It isn't so annoyingly stupid like Spotlight. For months, I open a single file called TODO.TXT via Spotlight. I enter T..O..D.. and select TODO.TXT from the list. I don't search for anything else with Spotlight that begins with TOD or even TO. But Spotlight for whatever reason decides that for every second or third search attempt, it must show me an entirely different file than the one I opened a thousand times by pressing exactly these letters. It is hard for me to grasp how in 2016 a piece of software can be so ignorant to such a simple behavior. But: It took me a few attempts to start using Alfred. I personally only use it to open files and programs and to search in files. The default behavior with pressing space twice is very annoying if you want to open text files. So I tweaked the settings a bit and now it works for me: Default Results: Essentials: - all unchecked but *Applications*. Extras: only check: Folders, Text Files, Documents, Images. Search within files by starting your search with the word in like "in FOOBAR". That's what works for me and replaced Spotlight.