Spotlight, the new Finder?
My files are a mess on my Mac. I try to put them in some order, but no matter what scheme I come up with invariably after a few days I go back to putting everything on my desktop. After awhile of looking at that I create a folder called 'Desktop Stuff' and throw all the files into it. Not exactly the best way to keep myself organized, but the one thing that keeps this from working is deep, fast searching.
Enter Spotlight, the Tiger feature that everyone loves, the saviour of the unorganized. Giles Turnbull recently had a chance to see someone from Apple demo Tiger for some journalists. The most interesting thing to come out of the meeting was that the person doing the demo no longer tires to keep his files in order. Why bother, he figures, since Spotlight indexes his file in near realtime.
I think I might be in love with an operating system. Tiger, will you marry me? Or at least clean up after me?
