[DM-MUG] Fwd: Re: [MacLaw] Loving Spotlight

[Victoria L. Herring]

I too love Spotlight [part of Apple's new OS, Tiger] ...here's 
practical example for lawyers [and others]

>
>I get more jazzed about this all the time. Truly awesome this 
>metadata thing. Essential your whole computer and everything
>connected to it is a giant relational database......
>
>So about an hour later I whip up a Notebook file and export to the 
>web, and show 'em that it can connect to calendars, and addressbook, 
>etc. etc. They're impressed. I hadly had the heart for it, but I 
>couldn't resist then showing them that with Notebook, Spotlight and
>some other apps I could then do searches across ALL my files, and
>then whip up some saved searches (i.e. Smart Folders) to link up much 
>of the legal research I was showing them. And I haven't even gotten 
>around to entering metadata into the Spotlight comment boxes of my 
>files to make this even more interesting. I basically showed them 
>that now with a few regular old apps and Spotlight and Tiger you 
>don't even need some of the expensive software they're thinking of 
>buying. I could organize their whole brief bank on my iBook in an 
>hour or so and be done with it. It so rocks!
>
>The future, I hope, will be apps that highlight the searched text 
>within the document; that's about the only feature I'm really craving 
>now.
>
>Rob

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