Spotlight vs Alfred

[n-evo]

Spotlight was an app launcher even in Mavericks. I was an Alfred user who found myself only using it to launch apps, and dropped it after Mountain Lion. With mavericks and yosemite, spotlight has become far more powerful and is enough for all my needs.
That, and I'd rather have fewer apps on my Mac.

Spotlight became an app launcher with the introduction of Mac OS X Leopard. App results were moved to the top of the list and automatically highlighted. OS X Mountain Lion didn't introduce anything new in that regard.

 

[talmy]

As I said, Safari now remembers sites you've been to which have search - sites which you HAVE BEEN to. After you've visited IMDB once, Safari will remember, so from that time onwards you can just type "imdb terminator" and Safari will search on IMDB. You don't need to actually be on the site after the first time you've visited it. This all happens automatically - no fiddling with workflows required.

Ah yes, I see now. I hadn't visited IMDB on this machine since the upgrade.

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"Safari also has a 'Spotlight Suggestions' setting that is separate from Spotlight's 'Spotlight Suggestions'. This uses the same mechanism as Spotlight, and if left enabled, Safari will send a copy of all search queries to Apple.

I'm more concerned that it goes to Google. But I've always expected this since we've gotten the uni-bar rather than separate URL and search fields. I've got "Include Spotlight Suggestions" unchecked because to me it isn't useful. "Include search engine suggestions" can be questionable, but as I say, I expect that. I can keep it from doing a Google search by starting with "http://" which disables the Google search that one time.

 

[kristoffer4]

http://www.packal.org



There is sort of an unofficial Workflow repository here to get you going.

Thanks! Some good stuff here.