Apple Supercharges Spotlight in macOS Tahoe With Quick Keys and More

[smirking]

I've been pretty happy with Copy 'Em.

Oh that looks really interesting. I may have to give that one a try. I'm not opposed to something that's more full featured as long as it's also good as just getting out of the way. Does it feel lean and mean in the way it works?

I like that it has shortcuts to the saved history. Is that what I'm seeing in the preview of the program or are the shortcuts for previously stored snippets only?

 

[walterpaisley]

It’s no Raycast killer, nor is it designed to be. I would be worried if I were the Alfred developer, though (which sucks because he’s a great human being, and Alfred is good software).

I’ve been fussing with it a bit and it’s still quite rough, but the basics are all there. I have not been able to figure out how to assign quick keys to anything, though.

 

[Camel993]

Hands down the best features of Tahoe along with a dedicated Phone app. Quick keys and clipboard history are power user time savers. I wish for so much more of this across the system apps every year, and those that make it happen to have more say in the overall OS.

If iPhone mirroring were available in the EU...

 

[dusk007]

Will see how that turns out. So far I always ended up using Alfred and never understood how years later Spotlight does not order results. In Alfred you type one or two letters and if you select what you want it prioritizes it. Super simple logic but you only need to teach it once out twice and then you always get what you want. With Spotlight instead it will forever serve you the wrong result if the first search didn’t work you just don’t need to bother.
Wonder if that finally makes Alfred obsolete what they are doing but I guess not.

 

[MacHeritage]

Spotlight on macOS X Tiger was already giving perfectly pertinent results organised intelligently.

Then they went on a marathon to destroy macOS and spotlight wasn’t spared.

Agree, with Tiger I can find things so easily with the simple prompt and special search window since everything is nicely organized and so easy to find. In Leopard and later? Forget it. I just was lost. It is better today than that but still nothing like Tiger's Spotlight. That is where Alfred came to the rescue and helped things out.

For Clipboard history I use Unclutter, which is a lifesaver. I use that app all day long and next to Default Folder X, it is my most used helper app. I use every bit of it all the time.

 

[MacFarmer]

this will require some learning and muscle memory training. But I love spotlight! Just don't make it too bloated that it would take a minute to load

 

[name99]

Wow, the new Spotlight is probably the most exiting update.

You all realize what's happened here, right?
This is a rebrand of Apple Intelligence/Siri...
I can't say I blame them. Various foolish choices over the years have turned the Siri brand into dirt, and dragged down the Apple Intelligence brand. But Spotlight still (kinda, sorta, to people who have never had to fight with its bugs and stupidities) has a good brand. So... let's dump all the ideas we had for next generation Siri into Spotlight!

There is a kinda genius to it! But they do have to deliver, otherwise the game is probably up this time next year, and all the rebranding in the world won't help.

As for what they're doing here (and were planning to do with Siri 2.0):

 

[smirking]

You all realize what's happened here, right?
This is a rebrand of Apple Intelligence/Siri...

If so, I'd say this was the right move and the better move all along. The issues with AI are twofold.

1) Give people a freeform tool that can help them "do anything" and expect them to be completely befuddled by it. There's a reason we don't learn to drive on race cars.

2) Worse, it doesn't really "do anything" or at least it doesn't "do anything" with enough consistency to make tech challenged people feel confident in using it.

AI is going to be way more useful in tightly focused applications where you don't need it to be ready to "do anything". We're a long ways from that.

 

[MrTemple]

Spotlight on macOS X Tiger was already giving perfectly pertinent results organised intelligently.

Then they went on a marathon to destroy macOS and spotlight wasn’t spared.

Now they will try to get it back to shape and present it as a feature.


Apple is truly, truly, deeply cooked.

If you're compelled to comment like this on a feature you seem to agree is significantly improving... you nose may be so hate-burnt that you're not be able to smell what is actually cooked here.