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[Poll] How often do you use the Universal Search?
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I haven't used it yet. It will probably be the same thing as Spotlight on my Macs, I've used it only once or twice in the 3 years it's been available.
I use it fairly often on my Mac, too. Not hardcore every everyday, but still pretty often.
When I'm running 3.0 or 3.1, I never use it. I wouldn't really be sad if it wasn't there at all. There's never anything I need to do a global search for. I mean, if I want to find an email, I can search in Mail... if I need a note, I can search in notes.... if I want to find a song, you get the idea. Most of the time I'm already in the app that I want to search in.
In my opinion, I don't need 90% of the changes in 3.0. I'm using 2.2.1 right now and I couldn't be happier.
Since I don't use my Mac for work, I really have nothing to search for. I know where all my files are. If I'm in a folder with thousands of files, I'll start typing the file name to locate it, but I don't use Spotlight.
But, I guess if you consider using the search in iTunes or Mail as Spotlight, then yes, I use that on my Mac at least once a week.
Ya, don't get me wrong - I Finder it up most of the time.
But it's funny ... when I want to launch an app, I use Spotlight. Or if I want to change/find a system pref, I use Spotlight. Stuff like that.
I found that by limiting the parameters to skip iPod stuff, video, music, podcasts and audiobooks, it works much faster and cleaner. You should also organize the search for what you want first. I have Mail first priority then Contacts, Calendar, Notes and Applications.
I use the universal search in individual apps all the time, but when looking for mail or notes i dont like using the spotlight search, not sure why though?
I've played with it, but I don't think I've ever actually used it to find something I needed. On my mac I use spotlight occasionally to find files when I don't remember the name or what folder I saved them in, but there's no real need for that on the iPhone.
I'm on the 3G, so there is a slight delay when I want to navigate to a certain contact to call using the Contact app or launching the phone function.
Using spotlight, I'll quick navigate to the contact's name by typing in two alphabets, selecting it, clicking on the cellphone number. Personally I find this reduces some effort for me in a sense.
Using spotlight, I'll quick navigate to the contact's name by typing in two alphabets, selecting it, clicking on the cellphone number. Personally I find this reduces some effort for me in a sense.
Have not used it once out of need. End up in the search screen all the time by accident. I have played with it for fun and seems to find everything.
