Spotlight, the new Finder?

John Siracusa's excellent review of Tiger goes into depth about Spotlight and related topics. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/

I have been using Spotlight and really love it. I intended to start to get lazy with my orginization, but I just can't make myself do that. Here is the problem that I found. If everything is in one folder, it is fine as long as I want to just use it on this computer. But if I want to copy all of the papers out for one class...I have to search them from from spotlight one by one then copy them over. On the other hand, if I hve them all in a folder already then I just copy over the folder. Oh well.

*also has nested folders names "desktop stuff"*

I used to have a ton of stuff on my desktop, but then I ran Eole, and now the mess is moved from the desktop to Documents/Pictures/Movies/Music... I still can't find anything I'm going to love Spotlight :D

Ed Fladung: with Spotlight, you won't need to remember the name of the file. All its metadata AND contents are indexed, so remembering a few words from it should do.

Mark Quicksilver is pretty good and has a lot of plug ins, thanks for the tip but it doesnt let you search within a document like spotlight will.

I think spotlight is going to be great and all, but there's still something to be said for good old-fashioned organized folders. At the very least, browsing through well organized folders has helped me rediscover files I had forgotten all about. Spotlight will be great if you know what you're looking for, but you still need an organizational hierarchy to re-locate files you didn't know to search for.

I wa sthe same way for many years then I found an app called quicksilver. Quicksilver will work wonders for all you panther people until you get tiger then. It is a very similar concept to spotlight and works great. And yeah it's free. http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

Wow. Amazing how many of us call that folder "Desktop Stuff" :)

Can not believe you even name the folder the same as I do. hahaha! Absurb. I can't wait for Tiger to get here, Spotlight is number 4 on my list of reason on upgrading early.