20 Things You Can Do Faster With Spotlight

[@KurtPapke]

I need to use Spotlight more often...it's crazy how many things you can do with it. Thanks Gary!

[@iankastelic881]

I LOVE that you choose your words so carefully. I always know what you are talking about because your words are non-ambiguous! Thank you so much!

[@macmost]

Thanks. Doing 3000+ videos over 16 years and answering questions about them has given me a special set of skills I suppose.

[@hallchristian1]

@@macmostYes - thats evident - your videos are very valuable to the community of apple users

[@xad0]

Thank you Gary for this very useful video !! A lot of shortcuts I didn't know ! One more tips : you can add the type of result at the end of your request. For instance : "dog kind:images", "more files kind:folder" or "Alice kind:document"...

[@holistichealingastrology]

Gary, outstanding videos. I appreciate your content. I'm 100% more productive than ever. I've been using apple products for decades! Your teaching style is the BEST!

[@garywagner2466]

Thanks for the tips, Gary. Very practical.

[@scottboettcher1344]

Dragging a result to another app or the desktop will be SOO useful; thanks Gary!

[@rasheshbosamiya1482]

thank you for sharing, I like the spotlight for world times, currency conversion, math calculations, Degree to Fahrenheit (and vise versa), searching for files, opening apps

[@Canadian_Living_in_Mexico]

wow: This is impressive. I am using Spotlight all of the time now and I can access things faster. All your videos are useful, but I am using these Spotlight tips all of the time. Thank you very much.

[@federico68]

Absolutely too undervalued. Bravo Gary!

[@Blakefan2520]

You continually tech me things I did not know my Mac could do. Excellent and empowering video as usual. Thank you.

[@alagolowe1656]

This is great. Thanks Gary!

[@carolinebarlow4795]

Thanks very much, Gary, for this informative video ! You have reminded me of some Spotlight uses I should really use more often.

[@davidcking7]

I had no idea how powerful Spotlight is ... many thanks for a super explanation, Gary!

[@stephenbridges2791]

Quite a bit of that I did not know. I can see how much of that is quicker. Parentheses have always been a problem for me in the calculator. Cool.

[@stevekoutros9358]

Outstanding. Thank you!

[@NavidonYoutube]

very very useful

[@dobrigenchev6178]

Thank you sir. Very useful.

[@TheOldGeekGuy]

Another nice speech I don’t think you mentioned is when you do bring up a list of files and they’re very similar. If you tap the spacebar you get effect simile of what that file is so you can tell if it’s the one you want or not I use this all the time.

[@macmost]

Yes, that's called Quick Look. Works in Spotlight, Finder, Open/Save dialogs, etc.

[@Gardyflux]

Excellent Gary

[@HarrisonGray]

I've been binge watching your videos for several weeks now and I go into every one thinking I'll already know all this, but I come out learning a tonne of new stuff every single video! Thank you! Also, are you able to share the 'uptime' shortcut that you have? (I'm assuming it's what tells you the time since you last restarted the Mac)

[@macmost]

It is just Run Shell Script with the shell script "uptime." Super simple.

[@HarrisonGray]

@@macmost interesting, thanks!

[@grampylash]

Great tips! Spotlight saved me recently after Bluetooth was accidentally turned off and lost the mouse and keyboard.

[@davidpatrick1813]

Unbelievable useful. Thanks... pat

[@drvsk5619]

😊 thank you so much

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️ Ps I’m sure you’ve done a video on mail folders in saved on the iPad could you point me in the right direction thank you in advance

[@macmost]

The thing about email folders is they are usually a part of the email system you are using. So iPad/Mac/Windows doesn’t matter. Using folders has more to do with the service: iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

[@loisskiathitis8926]

@@macmostthank you I didn’t know that now I do you thank you so much, Gary!👍

[@gerdt.7106]

Great.

[@suemacdonald9623]

lots of things didn’t know, or knew but had forgotten

[@DavidAusman]

Is there a way to use the “not” specifier in Spotlight? For example: all my professional photographs are stored in a folder called “Photographs”. But some of them have been mistakenly placed outside of that folder. I want to be able to search my entire computer for files with the suffix “.jpg” that are not contained in the “Photographs” folder.

[@macmost]

Yes, but specifying a folder is tough. You may need to select all in that folder, add a tag to those files, and then use NOT for the tag. See m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5m8lH6uqb52bpo

[@vitasc]

Unfortunately CMD+K doesn't work and I do not know why. Is it default shortcut?

[@macmost]

For Wikipedia? Did you check in System Settings, Siri & Spotlight to make sure you haven't turned that off?

[@vitasc]

Yes Garry. CMD+D & CMD+B works perfect but CMD+K 🤷🏻‍♂. There doesn't seem to be any action for this shortcut. @@macmost

[@macmost]

@@vitasc And you are using the latest macOS and you did try it with different words in Spotlight? Sorry, I'm not sure why it isn't working for you then.

[@vitasc]

Exactly... Anyway, thank you for your time.@@macmost

[@zoltanzana]

Yes, it doesn't work.

[@MaiElizabeth]

The keys I need to clean the most are usually space and ⌘ 😅