An app that is also sherlocked by macOS 26 is "FolderMarker" by Elena Drozhzhina / imagestudiopro.com. For years now I was using this very nice and versatile app to color folders and emboss icons on them. FolderMarker works by creating a hidden "Icon?" in the folder; the same happens when pasting an image in the Finder's file info dialog, a feature that reaches very far back in macOS history. However looking at macOS 26 beta, the new folder colors/emoj seem to use a different mechanism. I hope the old "Icon?" override will remain functional, so the many FolderMarker custom colors I already have will keep showing.
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One of the biggest reason why people recommend raycast lol. It used to be the added featureset, now it's "have spotlight that is not windows search". It's sad how far spotlight has fallen ever since they introduced web search into it a decade ago
Yep I want a terminal "find" command that does not rely on Apples completely broken Spotlight search cache. Spotlight fails to find files I know are on my drive. Why? Who knows. But Apple's "good enough" is nowhere near my expectations.
There’s an app… that does this quite well. For the Mac. It is on the Mac App Store. But it is quite old, so no idea if its been kept updated or it is still compatible with the newest macOS.
The icon is… a squirrel holding a magnifying glass. Yep. I don’t remember the name now.
It does just that: It searches into the file you tell it, or even the whole drive, and it gives you the names it finds. And I think it doesn’t rely on indexing, but I’m not sure.
Quite straightforward. Just search files.
I'm finding that Tahoe's new clipboard history feature doesn't work with at least one non-Apple word processor, LibreOffice. Looking into this, I found that LibreOffice is based on the UNO platform, and clipboard operations in it don’t use Apple's clipboard APIs like NSPasteboard, even when copying plain text (I tried it). Copying text in the Chrome browser does work.
That's EasyFind, and it does still work in Tahoe, though it hasn't been updated since 2021. Its last version was 5.0.2. I once used it all the time for searches where the Finder's search feature didn't find some files for some reason, but Apple seems to have fixed those bugs, so now I use a Finder window to search for files on my Macbook's internal and external volumes, though EasyFind has a better interface and more flexibility than Finder-based searches.
Bingo. Quite good app if Spotlight isn’t your cup of tea, but just like you, after a certain version (and jumping to an SSD based Mac) I went back to the Finder search.
Find Any File is also great, and it's still being updated, at least as of Jan 2025.
You can't stomach an 8€ one-time purchase for a piece of software you would use literally 100% of the time you use your Mac? Ok, man.
I use CopyLess 2 (free or $10 on the App store) for my clipboard history.
It saves the last 1,000 entries*, and those entries are searchable.
Plus—and this is its standout feature—you can create shortcuts for the last 10 copied items (I use CMD-OPT-[0 through 9]), enabling me to copy 10 separate items and then successively paste them (e.g., if I need to transfer what's in several different fields from one PDF form to another).
I'll be very surprised if Spotlight Clipboard Search offers those capabilities.
And the developer responds by email within a day if there are any issues (copying within Excel sometimes gives problems).
*The $10 version stores 1,000; the free version stores less.
Of course it’s not a top priority, but it’s making a slow progress. Apple doesn’t do anything quickly. This year we have a new Metal, and Game app. Apple bought a game studio plus the GPUs are getting faster and faster. We’re seeing more AAA titles being ported over. There’s progress, but never as fast as we’d like, especially with their AI roadblocks.
I would consider Apple's implementation a bare-bones or basic attempt. The third-party apps, like Flighty or Parcel, are the pro-level apps. I use Pastebot so I can't judge the macOS Tahoe native clipboard manager yet.
I wouldn’t and don’t use it 100% of the time. I mostly work with full screen apps and spaces.
Maybe I just don’t like charging for stuff that was free before.
Maybe I’m just salty because I needed a third party app for what really should have been a system feature from the beginning.
But yeah you’re right, 8€ isn’t that much. Especially compared to what apps like KeyCue are asking for.
Spotlight alternatives for macOS https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/spotlight-alternatives-for-macos.2457635/
I get it, but to me any time a developer charges a one-time purchase (especially at a low price point) I really appreciate it, as there are WAY too many developers that want to rent out software these days.
I still use and love Rectangle App to manage my multi-monitor windows even though Apple implemented it. Keyboard shortcuts ftw!
I was worried about Flighty for a sec - I've gifted two FlightyPro subs to friends, I like it that much - but I don't see how this "Track from wallet" thing is going to work before you've checked in? I don't think it will. Meanwhile, Flighty is on the case from the moment I forward my confirmation.
Exactly. Utilities like CleanShotX, Bartender/Ice, Raycast will be safe for some time because Apple won't allow that level of customisation/functionality.
