Teach Spotlight to Search Your Way

With the release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Spotlight was certainly a substantial part of the upgrade that received a lot of attention, and with good reason. Once you have incorporated Spotlight into your daily Mac life, going back to locating things on your computer the ‘old way’ is next to impossible. As great as Spotlight is, the vast majority of users only scratch the surface in in really putting Spotlight to work for you.

Today’s tip deals with Spotlight “kind” Keywords which are extremely easy to use and helps to filter the results more to your needs. Normally, a Spotlight search returns anything even remotely relevant, regardless of what type of file format it happens to reside in. Using the Spotlight “kind” Keywords, you can easily narrow down your search results into just the formats that you care about.

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