5 Spotlight search tricks in OS X El Capitan
OS X El Capitan is now available on the market and with only a few days it is impossible to know how much we can and cannot do.
Spotlight search has been a staple feature of Apple computers , and now with El Capitan, the search engine can find recent documents, check the weather in any city, get the score of last week's basketball game, or the schedule for the next Barça match. Whatever you're looking for, Spotlight can find it because it now includes natural language and word recognition search.
Therefore, if you haven't yet explored Spotlight's options, I invite you to read the following 5 search tricks that you'll now have in OS X El Capitan :
- Find those documents instantly, whose name you don't remember and that with the help of mode “Natural Language" You can find it in Spotlight.
If you've worked with Spotlight before, you know that finding specific documents or files was easy for the search engine ; even searching using only the file's date was a breeze thanks to its natural language reader . But now, searches can be as specific as you want . For example:
– “Documents I worked on two days ago.”
– “Images I opened yesterday.”
– “Images I edited two days ago.”
The key is knowing how to perform the search , since just having a vague idea of what you did, whether you remember the day, the time, or a word you used to rename the file, will be enough to carry out the search.
- Get weather reports from anywhere in the world.
Sometimes we search out of curiosity, and perhaps that day you decided to find out the temperature in another city. If so, simply perform a search like the following:
– “The weather in « insert place name »”.
And as if by magic ( no, don't worry, it's just Spotlight ) you'll get the exact current time.
- Find videos on the web quickly.
Sometimes we spend hours searching for a video. We turn to YouTube , but after several attempts, where we only manage to remember one of the three words in the video title, we end up giving up. Now, with Spotlight, searching for videos on the web is incredibly easy . For example:
– “« Video Name ”.
Obviously, the more specific you are when naming the video, the more likely you are to find it on the web.
- Find weekly sports results and upcoming game times.
You no longer have to wait until the next day to buy your local newspaper to find out the results of the game you missed because you were at work. In Spotlight, you only need to enter the following:
– “« Team Name » Schedule”.
– “« Team Name » General Information”.
– “« Team Name 1 » « Team Name 2 » game”.
– “« Team Name » score”.
- Get the quote results from Stock market and the prices.
If you like to stay informed about the market, stock symbols, company financial data, ETFs or indices, you can perform the following searches:
- "" Symbol "".
– “« Company name » share price”.
– “ Market index price”.
If you know any other tricks we haven't covered, please share your discovery with us in the comments . Let's unleash our curiosity with Spotlight!
