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 
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> 
> 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?
>> 
>> 
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