github FuzzyIdeas/Cling v3.3.0

4 hours ago

Features

  • Exact mode: search literally instead of fuzzy matching, skipping app contents and system files. You can switch to it in Settings > Search, or toggle it with ⌘⇧X

exact mode

exact and fuzzy results for cv

  • Content search: search inside files by placing text in square brackets, like invoice [client] or .jpg [dog]

    Needs Cling Pro

content search with the preview

content search without Cling Pro

  • Date filters: dm: and dc: can filter by date modified or created like invoice dm:2025 or .pdf dc:7days

date filters

date filter syntax

  • Operators from Everything, the Windows search app: content:, ext:, size:, file: and folder:

search syntax

  • Letter match highlights

match highlights

  • Action Bar editor: click an action to hide or show it, ⌘ Command click to move it between the bar and the ⋯ menu

action bar editor

  • Cloud filter: search iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive together, with ⌥O

Fixes

  • Extension filters like .pdf and ext: no longer miss files in the Everything index after Cling restarts
  • Fixed a possible crash on quit while Cling saved drive indexes
  • Fixed a possible freeze during the hourly index check
  • Fixed a possible freeze after tens of thousands of files changed

Improvements

  • Moving through the window's results with the arrow keys is smoother
  • A search that runs long turns its spinner red, and clicking the spinner stops it

red spinner

  • ⌃N and ⌃P can move through the results like ↓ and ↑. You can turn it on in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts, which moves sorting by name and path to ⌃⌥N and ⌃⌥P

ctrl-n and ctrl-p setting

  • Files inside apps stay out of the index, except the app binaries, so Xcode's SDK headers no longer flood the results
  • in: takes a folder in Home without ~/, like in:downloads or in:documents/pdfs. With a drive filter or a one-folder filter on, it starts from that folder instead, like in:DCIM
  • Folders and Show in Finder use the file manager set as default (credits to @oenderg)
  • The search window works without Full Disk Access, like the search bar
  • The search bar's text stays readable over a dark window in light mode, and a white one in dark mode

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