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I use spotlight for all kinds of math (12 / 4) * (44 + 35) etc Command + c will copy the highlighted spotlight result. Expose (show all windows) and drag and

I use spotlight for all kinds of math (12 / 4) * (44 + 35) etc Command + c will copy the highlighted spotlight result. Expose (show all windows) and drag and drop files to that window (i grab the file, while dragging show all windows by either a keybord key or hot corner and drop it to the new window) Hold down command to move around background windows without giving it focus. Ctrl + (arrows or numbers) to go to certain spaces. While in spaces expose, hold down ctrl to move all of the windows of a certain application to another space. Hold down a window's titlebar while switching spaces to move that window to the new space. Drag folders that you frequent into the left side of finder. I have /private/etc in mine Hold down command while clicking or pressing enter on a spotlight result will open its containing folder. How did I forget about keyboard modifiers by holding down the alt key. Drag a file/folder to terminal to get the path to that file printed in terminal. so I often type "cd " and then drag folder to get there While switching apps via command+tab you can let tab go and either hide the application by pressing h or quit it by pressing q (I wish that you could minimize it by pressing m). You can also cycle backwards by pressing tilde (this only works if youre already command+tabbing) or shift+tab * Gone from snow leopard, but i miss it* there used to be a keyboard shortcut (command, option, ctrl space) that opened a list of your last accessed files (i mistakenly found a bunch of porn website cookies on an intern's laptop once). This used to be useful to see which files you needed to upload /ftp.

kaylarose 16y ago
IMO Spotlight is the best example of minimalist software design. In a single universal field you have instant: app launcher, calculator, dictionary, file search, email search, contact search. My single best tip for Mac power-users: learn what you can do with Spotlight. Edit: grammar
- emehrkay 16y ago
  Forgot about the dictionary, I use it all the time in spotlight
- redacted 16y ago
  Spotlight also has keywords - kind:pdf date:yesterday author:short_name from:contact_name And the boolean relations AND, OR, NOT work as you might expect. There's a lot of cool stuff hidden in Spotlight. Try man mdfind to play around with command-line Spotlight.
  - redacted 16y ago
    Here is a particularly good resource on this aspect of Spotlight: http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/spotlight_cmds.txt http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/spotlight_cmds.txt
- experimental 16y ago
  I know you didn't claim Apple invented it, but I thought it would be informative to say Apple have added their own ideas but the main idea comes from BeOS, a once commercially viable operating system. These days it lives on in an open source recreation that has improved on BeOS, called Haiku. It uses a 64-bit journaling file system which has been improved now called HaikuFS that can hold 80,000 petabytes, caches so is fast and has user-definable attributes, like for contacts, music or anything you can think of really which can help you find things fast. There's a reimplementation of Dashboard called Corkboard written by a fan so it goes both ways - good ideas are used elsewhere. :)

kaylarose 16y ago

IMO Spotlight is the best example of minimalist software design. In a single universal field you have instant: app launcher, calculator, dictionary, file search, email search, contact search. My single best tip for Mac power-users: learn what you can do with Spotlight. Edit: grammar

emehrkay 16y ago
Forgot about the dictionary, I use it all the time in spotlight
redacted 16y ago
Spotlight also has keywords - kind:pdf date:yesterday author:short_name from:contact_name And the boolean relations AND, OR, NOT work as you might expect. There's a lot of cool stuff hidden in Spotlight. Try man mdfind to play around with command-line Spotlight.
- redacted 16y ago
  Here is a particularly good resource on this aspect of Spotlight: http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/spotlight_cmds.txt http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/spotlight_cmds.txt
experimental 16y ago
I know you didn't claim Apple invented it, but I thought it would be informative to say Apple have added their own ideas but the main idea comes from BeOS, a once commercially viable operating system. These days it lives on in an open source recreation that has improved on BeOS, called Haiku. It uses a 64-bit journaling file system which has been improved now called HaikuFS that can hold 80,000 petabytes, caches so is fast and has user-definable attributes, like for contacts, music or anything you can think of really which can help you find things fast. There's a reimplementation of Dashboard called Corkboard written by a fan so it goes both ways - good ideas are used elsewhere. :)