[X4U] LaunchBar and Spotlight

[Stroller]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 12:55 pm, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
> ...Applications are the first category of files listed, so they must 
> intend for you to launch applications using Spotlight.

I don't know why they do that - it seems very odd to me, as I'd never 
launch an application that way.

Spotlight seems useful to me when you have many files that are 
difficult to organise, and less useful when you have a few few files 
that are easy to organise. The Applications folder comes under the 
latter category for me - I have all the default apps in there, and an 
additional folder each for MS Office, Adobe, Games & Misc. A shortcut 
in the Dock to the Applications folder makes any app trivial to find, 
and searching Spotlight for any of them would take longer.

Fortunately you can change the order in which Spotlight displays 
results - I have it display first emails, then contacts, calendar items 
& then other documents. Although the exact order may change in the 
future - I intend to move more documents from my server to my Mac to 
take advantage of Spotlight - I have Spotlight return the results for 
the Applications category nearly last.

Stroller.