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No I’m sure that no one can match what Spotlight does under the hood (I assume most of the necessary APIs are locked down), however I and many others could repl
by joshspankit 4y ago
No I’m sure that no one can match what Spotlight does under the hood (I assume most of the necessary APIs are locked down), however I and many others could replace spotlight with something that goes oldschool: search folder/filenames.
It would allow us to launch applications quickly, open calendar if we need to search for an event, open contacts if we need to search for contact info, and find files that we’ve saved to the local disk. Bonus points if it also does math and currency conversion, but at least for me: entirely optional.
- rcarmo 4y agoThere are a dozen such things from days gone by: QuickSilver, LaunchBar, Alfred…
- joshspankit 4y agoI wrote that comment partially because Alfred uses Spotlight under the hood. I may be wrong, but when I installed Alfred and disabled Spotlight entirely I could not get Alfred to index applications or files on-disk. Thanks for the reminder about Quicksilver. For some reason I thought it was no longer active and I’m glad to be wrong.