Spotlight little-known feature in El Capitan, which will simplify your life

The updated and revised Spotlight - one of the main changes to El Capitan. All is good, but most of the new products are available only in a limited number of countries, and there's nothing you can do about it. Nevertheless, there are still regular mate with a dozen of useful features, which few people know.

Perform mathematical operations

If you open the calculator laziness, Spotlight string cope well with simple mathematical operations.

Yet there persists a result, which means that if you need to make adjustments, you can always do it before the next request.

Faster workflow using shortcuts

Probably about Cmd + Space, you know very well, so let's move to the little-known shortcut keys.

• Sandwiched Alt displays the path to the selected element in the bottom of the Spotlight window.
• Cmd + R or Cmd + Enter - transition to the file in the Finder, or - in the case of contacts or e-mail messages - in the respective native applications.
• Cmd + L opens the meaning of the word in the dictionary system.
• Cmd + I opens an information window in the case of files, folders, or applications.
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• Cmd + B performs an identical request to the default browser.
• Cmd + Backspace completely clears the Spotlight search string.
• Smd + Z. The familiar combination of go back a step here is also useful. With this shortcut, you can go back a few queries ago.

Move the box and search results

In Yosemite popup Spotlight is always placed in the center, leaving no chance for all that you have opened in other windows. The El Capitan became possible to freely move the Assistant window.

In addition to the Spotlight window, you can move and search results. For example, DOC-files can be moved to the TextEdit icon if run standard Word or Pages have no desire to. In addition, when you drag items to the desktop automatically creates a copy. This action is available even to the definitions in the dictionary. If you move them in the Finder, the system will create a link to the word.

We are looking for using the natural search

Find the documents you worked on last week, or e-mail messages from a specific contact has become easier for July. This is one of the few novelties Spotlight, available in our countries.

However, there is one important caveat. To request Photos from last June to work, you need to install English as the preferred language.

We look through the recently opened files

Some standard and third-party applications have already integrated this feature in Spotlight. For example, TextEdit and Preview, VLC media player and MPlayerX shown in the right column a list of recently opened files.

Unfortunately, this feature is not yet supported mail, contacts or applications office suite, in which the novelty would look particularly striking.

We use Spotlight as a music player

As such, the System Attendant even better iTunes mini-window. To introduce the name of the song, artist, or album from the local library, press the play button on the right-hand column, and can turn off Spotlight - music will play in the background.

To pause, you need to call again Assistant window.

We find events associated with contact

To view all files, correspondence, calendar events associated with a particular friend from your contact list, get in the Edit tab of the corresponding item Spotlight application. Clicking on it will open in a Finder window all the associated files.

Filter the results

Similarly filtering in Google search engine results in the Spotlight is possible to search in specific types of files. Here are a few options that are applicable in the Spotlight:

• kind: music;
• kind: documents;
• kind: word (with possible variations and excel powerpoint);
• kind: pages (applicable to numbers and keynote);
• kind: spreadsheet;
• kind: presentation;
• kind: app;
• kind: bookmark (including search your browser history);
• kind: contact;
• kind: chat;
• kind: event (events and reminders);
• kind: folder;
• kind: movies;
• kind: images;
• kind: fonts;
• kind: pdf;
• author: john smith;
• date: 1/4/15.