Apple’s Spotlight upgrades look like a power-user dream
This year's WWDC is shaping up to be surprisingly focused on power users. There are lots of new personalization ideas, plenty of new ways to move things around on your device, and some new ways to get things done. But Mac power users in particular are going to really fall for two things: the new Spotlight, and the new Shortcuts.
In MacOS Tahoe, Spotlight, the universal search and launcher feature you open with CMD-Space, can now do more than just open stuff. It can do stuff. Apps can provide access for Spotlight to execute all kinds of actions, from playing music and podcasts to creating notes or adding to files. You can find actions with search or with short keyboard shortcuts - on stage at WWDC, Apple's Craig Federighi demonstrated using "sm" to quickly send a message.
Beyond that, it sounds a bit like Apple wants to make Spotlight the go-to way to access anything on your device. You'll be able to search through both the things on your device and the things in your cloud storage, with lots of filtering options; there's even a browsing view that looks a bit like the App Library on an iPhone or iPad. (Spotlight can also search all the apps on those devices, too, if you have mirr …