I switched away from this to Wizfile [0] and I really recommend it.<p>That plus Wiztree [1] as a replacement for Windirstat have made me a real fan of the devs.<p>[0] <a href="https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizfile-finds-your-files-fast/" rel="nofollow">https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizfile-...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/" rel="nofollow">https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-...</a>
I love this tool. Windows search is really really bad, and for some unholy reason throws Cortana and Bing into it. I want to search for things on my PC not the internet!
This is the only tool I miss from Windows on macOS and linux both. It allows you to search for every single file on your system, allows regex searches. It also allows you to sort the matching files by any arbitrary criteria, e.g, size. It is also incredibly fast, so searching a 1TB HDD is instantaneous. People are mentioning Spotlight here, and I think it is better than Windows search, but is simply not as good as Everything. I haven't tried Alfred so won't comment on it. On Linux also your best bet is to use find( or some gui which does something similar), but no tool offers the same kind of instantaneous full disk search like Everything.
I like Listary - I haven't used Everything to compare, but I'm aware that they're similar.<p>For text file contents I'm a huge advocate for ripgrep , and for metadata...to be honest I don't have a great solution, so I'll be keeping an eye on the recommendations here.
Something like this, or the Sublime text omnibox (whatever it's called), is what the Windows search box should be.<p>Ie the one you get when pressing the super/win button then start typing. It's embarrassingly bad currently. Typing 'word' the first suggestion is wordpad, not ms office word, despite me never running wordpad other than on accident. Not only bad string matching, it doesn't take into account how frequently I use either app, despite the user tracking the OS does. Strange is the land indeed.
This, along with xplorer2, are among two most used programs on my Windows computer. Really quick in general, including thumbnail generation for pdf/images/etc and monitoring folders/files in realtime.<p>custom keyboard shortcuts:<p>CTRL+SHIFT+E - open everything<p>CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+q - filter pdf -> ext:pdf<p>CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+e - filter excel -> ext:xlsx;xlsm;xlsb;xltx;xltm;xlt;xls;xlam;xla;xlw<p>CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+d - filter all documents -> ext:xps;pdf;msg;docx;doc;pptx;ppt;xlsx;xlsm;csv;xlsb;xls;<p>documents or downloads folders -> path:documents|path:downloads
Shameless plug for my open source project for a better way to search and browse videos files you have: <i>Video Hub App</i> - <a href="https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App</a><p>I love <i>VidTools Everything</i> - but for videos you might want to see previews of the content ;)
I've used Find and Run Robot (FARR)[0] for years on Windows and can thoroughly recommend it due to its speed and suggestions based on use frequency.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/farr" rel="nofollow">http://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/fa...</a>
I use this, but most often as the underlying engine for the Wox launcher. [1] <i>Everything</i> is quite fast.<p>I haven’t gone deeper into it to see how I can avoid duplicate results.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox</a>
Not sure what made this suddenly appear here after so many years, but I LOVE this tool, and now that I'm on MacOS, I REALLY wish there was an equivalent. It's mystifying to me why this isn't a built-in OS feature.
Pretty good tool. Have been using this for many years.
+ Supports REGEX search.
+ Enable HTTP server and then expose the port using ngrok and you can search your system from anywhere.
+ Supports Hotkey (Ctrl+E is what I use)
Using everything with an autohotkey script that replaces Ctrl+F for years now.<p>If I Ctrl+F while an explorer window is open it allows me to search within that folder. Same with desktop, documents and taskbar.
I discovered this tool last week and suddenly fell in love with it. Is it possible to bind it to a hotkey like spotlight?<p>However if it where to fuzzy match like sublime’s super+p I would love it even more.
Interface-wise we got Fsearch (<a href="https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch</a>) on Linux, but it's not feature complete. I love Everything, and I get a bit nostaligic over these simple but feature packed windows apps that are all but living fossils in the .NET and WFP times.
What I'm really after is a web based search portal for all my network data that's hosted on SMB shares. It needs to be easy to setup and manage (so my other half can use it) and understand Windows domain security. Google-in-a-box used to do it (badly), and MS SharePoint Search (bloated and slow). Neither of which are suitable these days. Any ideas anyone?