Advanced search in the Spotlight

Magic magic wand for "makovodov» - Spotlight search engine. She always use them when I can not remember where to put the next book or magazine. To my untutored eye to find it can be everything. But sometimes it takes a lot of time. And most recently, I learned that to find the necessary files, you can include specific features in it.

How it works? Pretty simple. The main thing to know exactly what you are looking for.

Search by file attributes. In order to make searching for files with specific attributes, you only need to turn on a sign in (:)

type: a sign

That is, you can search by name (name), its type (Kind -.pdf, App, TEXT, documents, pictures, tables, etc.), the date of its creation or modification (Modefied, Created).

For example: name: string bag kind: jpg

If you simply enter kind: wordYou will get a list of all documents that were created in Word. That is, if you can not remember the exact name and where it is placed the document.

Similarly, you can search for artists using c tracks «by:». That is, write in the search bar «By: artist name or the name of the group"

Search by date of creation and modification.

So you can search for files created on a certain date, to a certain date or after it - yesterday, today, to look up the date <1/1/2011, to look after the date> 1/1/2011, look in the interval 1/1/2011-3/1/2011

If you write the name of the recipe and put a "-" in order to avoid any ingredient. You can also use the «AND», «OR» and «NOT».

For example: «Chocolate recipes - coconut» or "chocolate AND «peanut butter» NOT (almonds OR coconut)». If the name is not written in English, then enter the desired words, respectively. Unfortunately, the recipes on my computer was not there, so it was not possible to test.

And Spotlight can be used as a calculator;)