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I warmly recommend adding Everything to that list. It's an instant-results file search tool that indexes your entire hard drive. It lets you find any file insta
by skrebbel 6y ago
I warmly recommend adding Everything to that list. It's an instant-results file search tool that indexes your entire hard drive. It lets you find any file instantly.
https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
EDIT: for some extra context, this tool changed the way I name and store files. I hardly ever navigate to a file anymore. I search Everything for, well, everything. After a while, I found myself caring less where I store a file, and more what I name it. I now add any word to a filename that I think I might search it by. Effectively it's a bunch of tags right there in the filename. This removes the need for a separate tagging program like the author suggests.
- Traubenfuchs 6y ago"Everything" is one of the most amazing pieces of software for window. I literally use it every day to find "lost" files.
- xurukefi 6y agoProbably the first tool I install on every Windows machine. It's beyond me how Microsoft has not incorporated something similar into Windows to replace its ridiculous native search.
- criddell 6y agoIsn't that what Cortana / indexing service is supposed to be?
- iggldiggl 6y ago"Supposed to" unfortunately being the key word here.
- EdwinLarkin 6y agoBecause the native search searches also inside the files.Everything only shows you what files are indexed in the NTFS. This is not a bug it's just hilarious that Microsoft thinks its search that is not communicating clearly what it does is better.
- krylon 6y agoEverything can search file content, but you have to ask for it, and of course one looses the great performance that is Everything's main selling point. I forgot the syntax, because I never used it for that reason, but the option is there.
- ffpip 6y ago> I forgot the syntax, because I never used it for that reason "Everything" can search file content with the content: search function. https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#does_everything_search_file_contents https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#does_everything_search_file_c...
- ffpip 6y ago> Because the native search searches also inside the files. Even if you disable that its much slower. Windows search exists so Bing searches increase. Everything you search delivers results from bing, which opens in MS edge.
- Dma54rhs 6y agoWhy does this tool look inside the files while start menu search can't even handle simple fuzzy search? When I writes 'note' it does not find 'SinpleNote' which is insane. I refuse to believe that this is some power user feature, might as well disable search if all the people are so dumb that they can't learn how to use tools and ways that make us more productive.
- XzetaU8 6y agoAdditionally, there is EverythingToolbar which integrates Everything to Windows taskbar. https://github.com/stnkl/EverythingToolbar https://github.com/stnkl/EverythingToolbar
- h00l00bebe 6y agoI second that with a proper indexed search tool one can stop bothering keeping track of folders hierarchy. You just type in the name of the file and you get it! However, after using Recoll[0] on Linux Desktop for years, I have to say that searching by file contents is even more convenient than searching by a filename. And... I have to admit that unfortunately the current state of indexed search (file contents) in Windows 10 is "hit and miss". I have tried to re-index the whole drive several times, but still, you don't know if the query that you type in with `Win + S` will return any results. Even when you know that it shall. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoll