Index thoughts in Spotlight
I've read in several places that "Spotlight integration is already completed in version 5.0.0.9", but that's not true. Yes, you can search Spotlight -from- PB. But you could do that the long way already: by going all the way up to the Spotlight icon on the menu bar...
The more interesting integration is the other way round! I want to find my PB thoughts in Spotlight, the same way I find address cards, e-mails, and documents today. As of 5.0.2, you index the attachments, but not the thoughts themselves.
Please index the thoughts!
Unfortunately, the architecture of Spotlight requires a file to be created for every item that it indexes. This would mean creating a “dummy” file for every thought…
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Jay Levitt commented
True, but why is that bad in 2009? I know it *feels* wrong, but inodes are cheap, directory changes are cheap, file handles are cheap. The dummy-file approach is how most other apps deal with it as well; they create a directory in /Library/Caches/Metadata/.
See for example https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290057#c8. If the Mozilla team can embrace this newthink, you KNOW it must be socially acceptable now :)
On the Mac, having data inaccessible from Spotlight is the moral equivalent of not having that data. It's much more integrated into workflows than Windows Desktop Search.