I've figured out a few of this. Hope this helps anyone else interested. 1. For applications, use this query: kind:app NOT kind:jar NOT kind:widget - It should be self explanatory, but basically it gets all applications excluding jar files (Java apps) and widgets, both of which show up by default. 2. For recent items, I used this query: (date:today OR date:yesterday) NOT kind:email - This pulls everything I've opened in the last few days, but does not index emails.
I still can't figure out how to restrict Spotlight to a subfolder. There has to be a way, though... On May 17, 4:12 pm, sclough <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using the spotlight plugin to try to customize my catalog and I'm > having a few problems and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to > properly customize these spotlight queries. I've looked a little at > spotlight syntax, but I'm still having problems getting what I want. > Most of it centers around how to apply multiple queries. > > 1. For applications, I'm using kind:app . However, it also indexes a > lot of .jar file (Java programs). How can I say kind:app but name ! > = .jar or kind != .jar in order to exclude files that I don't want > listed in the catalog? > > 2. I'm trying to replicate recent items by creating a catalog for > items opened today and yesterday. How do I combine the date:today and > date:yesterday into one query AND how do I exclude email messages. > It's including emails in the catalog and I don't want them included. > > 3. Finally, to index documents how do I tell spotlight to include > files under a certain directory. For example, everything in home, or > everything in documents, etc? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I've tried to look through some > spotlight documentation, but I'm still stumped on this...
