Chris, if you use spotlight let us know what key commands you use with it? Example tab VO and arrow, just arrows. What is the easiest way to navigate search results. Thanks, > On Oct 5, 2015, at 5:24 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think one of the main advantages is supposed to be speed. Spotlight keeps > an index of all your documents so search results come up quickly. The unix > find command only searches file meta-data like its name, modification date, > size etc. Spotlight searches inside your files so if you have a document > which mentions pizza inside and is named "my favorite foods" spotlight should > bring it up while find will not. > > CB > > On 10/3/15 3:59 PM, Blee Blat wrote: >> I'm with you. I don't understand why I would use Spotlight when I could >> easily just use the UNIX find command from a terminal, or I know where my >> files. I've turned off all the spotlight options and turned off dictation >> and Siri because it gets things wrong pretty much all the time. I also turn >> off autocorrect and predictive text because I can type fast enough and all >> the autocorrect does is cause me to type the wrong word when I could've >> typed the right one without that feature. Does anyone care to explain what >> are the use of all these new features other than to making thinking >> superfluous? All this data monitoring stuff just seems creepy. But maybe >> there is a use for it? Why would I want to train the dictator and >> autocorrect if I can type it in just fine with a reasonable keyboard? >> None of this is meant as negativity I'm just wondering how to make use of >> these fancy algorithms without the machine thinking for me and being creepy. >> But it could be possibly just user error or user ignorance since I don't >> know what the intent of these things is exactly? >> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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