| ▲ | mathgeek 8 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
Which I find really sad because at one point OSX had search quality that was really satisfying. That was maybe twenty years ago for me. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | xp84 8 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Yes. Spotlight search for the Application launcher use-case was close to the speed and quality of LaunchBar (which still works that way of course) when Apple first introduced the command-space shortcut, on vastly slower “oughts” computers. Today it’s much slower and less consistent. However we know that they could easily do a simple search effectively because Apple’s Launchpad has a perfect app search built in. If you give Launchpad a global shortcut you can press <shortcut>saf<return> and be assured it will instantly open safari every time. Of course, LaunchBar (no affiliation, but I’ve been using it for 22 years) still beats that in every way. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tim333 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
My favourite was back in os7. I didn't really use the file system because you just started typing the name of the file and it came up instantly. I'm not sure why companies have to break simple stuff that works well. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kergonath 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Spotlight was a revelation in Tiger. I don’t know exactly when it degraded but it’s a damn shame how annoying it’s become. | |||||||||||||||||
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