It’s the time of year that I evaluate the apps that I’ve been using and decide which apps I will use for the coming year. And searching with Alfred or HoudahSpot I can find absolutely any file I’m looking for.Ģ022 is nearly here. I can access these files with any text editor on any platform. All my digital data is now in a shallow folder structure in Finder as individual files. The decision I made was to go back to individual files. I’ve said it enough that it sounds cliché to me, but HoudahSpot really is steroids for Spotlight on macOS. And where Spotlight falls short, HoudahSpot steps in and fills the gaps. Researching HoudahSpot lead me to this blog post by Brett Terpstra.įor those of us who have shifted from folder hierarchies to search as our primary method of “filing,” Spotlight has become a way of life. HoudahSpot was mentioned a few times as a Finder search app alternative to Spotlight. The subject of finding files/search came up. Several people use Devonthink or EagleFiler while others use a folder structure in Finder. What I gleaned from the comments was that more people favored storing data in individual files. To get a better idea of how people store their digital data I started a thread titled “Conflicted! Data storage – Individual files or proprietary database format?” in the MPU forums. And, use I know Bear and Ulysses have export options. I’ve never been comfortable with this method because of the lock-in. More recently I have been keeping it in apps like Bear, Ulysses, or Apple Notes. I used to keep it in plain text markdown files.
I’ve been rethinking how I store my digital data.
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