That Amazing Spotlight Feature of Mac OS X

It’s not a secret to anyone that Mac OS X has a wonderful feature — Spotlight — which greatly helps to simplify your daily life by providing surprisingly fast search facility. It helps to find almost anything in your Mac without diving deeply into the folders hierarchy. Yeah, everyone knows about it, but what was really exciting for me to discover is a way you can tell it what kind of stuff you are looking for.

Here’s the excerpt from the original article on Surf-Bits, “Teach Spotlight to Search Your Way“.

If you know that you are looking for specific types of information, you can specify that in your search phrase by adding the text “kind:<type of information> after your search. For example, to find all of the PDF documents related to Yosemite, type “Yosemite kind:PDF” in to Spotlight. This example uses the kind type but Apple provides a fairly comprehensive list of kind types for your use. (see below). Trust me, once you’ve started using the kind keywords, Spotlight becomes far more useful than it was out of the box.

Applications	kind:application, kind:applications, kind:app
Contacts	kind:contact, kind:contacts
Folders	kind:folder, kind:folders
Email	kind:email, kind:emails, kind:mail message, kind:mail messages
iCal Events	kind:event, kind:events
iCal To Dos	kind:todo, kind:todos, kind:to do, kind:to dos
Images	kind:image, kind:images
Movies	kind:movie, kind:movies
Music	kind:music
Audio	kind:audio
PDF	kind:pdf, kind:pdfs
Preferences	kind:system preferences, kind:preferences
Bookmarks	kind:bookmark, kind:bookmarks
Fonts	kind:font, kind:fonts
Presentations	kind:presentations, kind:presentation

Thanks Jeff!