I'm on Sonoma (14.5). In System Settings > Siri & Spotlight, 1. I can deselect some pre-defined categories that Spotlight searches 2. I can click the "Spotlig

I'm on Sonoma (14.5). In System Settings > Siri & Spotlight, 1. I can deselect some pre-defined categories that Spotlight searches 2. I can click the "Spotlight Privacy..." button (at the very bottom right). Then I can add folders for it to ignore. (My preference is for Spotlight to ignore almost everything, so that it isn't indexing stuff and eating CPU on this old Macbook Air. I only have it scan Applications, Calculator, and System Settings. I have it specifically ignore my entire home directory which is where all my git repos are.)