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MoRU - what Spotlight should be?
Rob Griffiths over at MacOSXHints has discovered MoRU, an app that builds upon the power of Spotlight with its offering of far more customizable search queries. Instead of searching for everything across your entire Mac with Spotlight, consider how much handier it would be to say: "show me these specific kind of files, with exactly X in their name, made between this year and that year." If this concept seems a little strange, check out Rob's post for a couple real-world examples of when a blind search across everything on your machine becomes less productive than Apple advertises.
MoRU is shareware that costs $10. If you're as unhappy with Spotlight's blind, system-wide search as Rob, it sounds like MoRU is definitely worth taking for a spin.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Thomas said 5:26PM on 2-28-2006
Can't you do that same idea by going File->Find? Or use one of the shortcuts like "Kind:Document"?
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Ed said 5:39PM on 2-28-2006
Command-F from the finder does the same thing... just doesn't look as nice. But the saved searches of MoRU looks interesting... different take of "Smart folders"?
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MattK said 10:22PM on 2-28-2006
To me, the beauty of Spotlight is its speed and simplicity. It's rare that a one or two word spotlight query doesn't find what I'm looking for. Unless you have a lot of files that are very similar, I don't think it's worth having to deal with the extra clicks and extra parameters.
I could definitely see the need for an app like this among a small subset of users, but not for the vast majority. For me, it would completely ruin the ease-of-use Spotlight provides.
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Jason Anderson said 7:35PM on 3-10-2006
Cool app. Ugly-ass icon. UGLY icon. The Beta icon ain't much better.
But cool app.
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