Desk Lamp 1.0 β

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Desk Lamp: Illuminated Search

Find, Tag, Rate, and Organize your files with Spotlight

Desk Lamp is a flexible search tool for macOS which focuses the power of Spotlight on your documents, projects and work flows. Every Desk Lamp window is a live search, which keeps up as your files change, and which you can save and open again any time.

See your results in a List, drill down in Columns by kind, tag or date, or compare Groups in an outline, then Tag and Rate what you find with the same Finder tags you use everywhere else on your Mac.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Free while it’s in beta

What’s New in 1.0

• Rebuilt in Swift for the current macOS, with SF Symbols throughout
• Finder Tags instead of keywords and projects, so your tags show up in the Finder and every other app
• Star Ratings kept as tags like ★★★☆☆, so they go wherever your files go
• A new Info Card with everything InfoCard knows about the selected file: previews, image metadata, file attributes, Spotlight metadata and hash codes
• Search Folders to search just the folders you choose, or your whole Mac
• An Ignore List to leave folders like ~/Library out of your results
• An option to hide the files your git repositories’ .gitignore files ignore

Search

Type in the search field to search names, contents, tags and comments, or use a shortcut to search one attribute: kind:pdf, name:invoice, tag:Work. Results arrive in seconds and keep updating.

Tags & Ratings

Add and remove Finder tags right in the info card, and click a tag to search for everything else with it. Click the stars to rate a file, or a whole selection at once. Ratings are tags too, so tag:★★★ finds everything you’ve rated three stars or more.

Info

Select a file to see its tags and rating, a Quick Look preview, and all of its details on a card, just like InfoCard. Select a few files to see how many there are, how much space they take, and the tags they share.

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Looking for the original? Desk Lamp 0.11 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is still available.