Desktop File Search Tools
Users compare built-in OS search features like Windows Start Menu and macOS Spotlight, complaining about their limitations and recommending faster alternatives such as Everything, Alfred, Fluent Search, and Listary.
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Why does this tool look inside the files while start menu search can't even handle simple fuzzy search? When I writes 'note' it does not find 'SinpleNote' which is insane. I refuse to believe that this is some power user feature, might as well disable search if all the people are so dumb that they can't learn how to use tools and ways that make us more productive.
you might like this - https://www.alfredapp.com/ - replaces spotlight, is faster, and fuzzy search seems better
I just use Everything to search. It's great.
Macos’ spotlight can do this AFAIK.
I use a program called Everything. It's much faster.
I've used this, it is pretty fast comparing windows search. Any idea on how it differs from windows search?
Equivalent of MacOS's spotlight
This just tells me you've never used they only file search dream - Everything search, unfortunately Windows only. Spotlight has never come close to that
"everything" app on windows works well for me for file search. Incredibly fast.
Spotlight can do the same thing, no ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28software%29