HoudahSpot is a blazing fast file search tool that lets you find any type of file including photos, documents, videos, emails and so on. Besides the basic search you can refine the result by adding one or multiple criteria. HoudahSpot combines fast and precise file search with a customizable results display and previews. It makes it easy to find the right document, email message, photo, or video file. HoudahSpot is a productivity tool that serves as the hub of many workflows: in HoudahSpot, all the files related to the task at hand come together. HoudahSpot is a productivity tool. It is the hub where all the files related to your current task come together. From here, you also can take a deep dive to fetch further information from your archives. HoudahSpot will immediately feel familiar.
For Mac users,Spotlight is a valuable tool that can be used to perform system-wide search, but it is not perfect. HoudahSpot is a Spotlight replacement that not only performs faster but also includes a raft of additional options to make searching for files even easier.
Complex searches can be built up by adding a range of criteria to your queries - including name, contents, date and file attributes. Searches can be saved so they can be easily run again when needed, and search results can be saved as a document complete with a choice of columns displaying file attributes.
Searches that return a large number of results can be cut down to size by opting to exclude particular locations or to limit results to files that have been opened recently. You can also create templates which can be used as a basis for searches so it is easy to perform a number of very similar searches in quick succession.
Accesible through a global hotkey, HoudahSpot is always on hand whenever you need it, and it is likely that you will quickly decide that it is a worthy successor to Spotlight.
Verdict:
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HoudahSpot allows for very complex searches and yet remains easy to use while offering superb performance.
Houdah Software released a major upgrade of their excellent Spotlight search utility, HoudahSpot 5, last week. Among a ton of useful new features, HoudahSpot now also integrates with Default Folder X, giving you a much more powerful way to search for files and folders in Open and Save dialogs.
When you’re in a file dialog, Default Folder X provides a menu command to quickly search the currently displayed folder in HoudahSpot. This gives you the flexibility to search by file type, tags, content, modification date, or any other parameter you can think of.
Once you’ve located the file you want in HoudahSpot, Control-click on that file and use the “Default Folder X” menu to finish the round trip and send it back to the waiting file dialog (in Preview, in this case).
I’m happy to have had the chance to collaborate with Pierre Bernard, HoudahSpot’s developer, on this workflow. It delivers more convenience and time-savings to all the folks that use both HoudahSpot and Default Folder X.
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If you have ideas for similar connections between your favorite indie applications, let the developers know – many of us are very receptive to your suggestions. Default Folder X also integrates with ForkLift and Path Finder, for example, because lots of people asked for it!
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And if you haven’t tried HoudahSpot yet, go download a free demo copy now and check it out. You’ll be glad you did!