Different spotlight search queries needed in BE

[FredS]

Hi,

Im new to Bookends and really enjoy the app so far (I am a Sente refugee). I'm noticing that a search outside of BE in Spotlight for "free" will show the correct PDF in the results that has the word "sugar-free" in the file,but, in Bookends, it can't find "free" when even doing a Spotlight searchlight, but it can find "sugar-free". Is this just normal behavior?

Thanks.

Fred

[Jon]

I can reproduce this. Bookends is set to search whole words, and apparently the Finder Spotlight is not (sugar-free is the whole word, free is a partial word). You can search for partial words in Bookends by using the wild card character, *.

A Bookends Spotlight search for

*free

finds "sugar-free" for me.

Jon
Sonny Software

[FredS]

Thanks, Jon. In my actual case the hyphenated word was a highway name or something that I didn’t know would have a hyphen. Something unique like “Main-Boston Road” and I couldn’t find the word Boston in BE but could find it from the Finder. I’ll submit a feature request that BE search have an option for partial words as well because who knows if I’ll remember to try wildcards in the future! Thanks!

[FredS]

The wildcard works for me properly. However, when the PDF displays, the partial word search works in the Attachments pane when I look for the word in the PDF once it's open. It feels inconsistent as a general search rule: Search "this way" here, but search a different way "there".

[Jon]

Spotlight search is it's own beast, not to be compared with any other kind of search. Bookends just submits the request, what happens after that is a function of the APIs written by Apple.

Jon
Sonny Software

[FredS]

Spotlight search is it's own beast, not to be compared with any other kind of search. Bookends just submits the request, what happens after that is a function of the APIs written by Apple.

Jon
Sonny Software

Oh, I thought this was something you could program on your side. Thanks for the clarification.