What's New

The Tray

The main purpose of the HoudahSpot Tray is to provide access to the file tagging features. The Tray may also list your templates.
The Tray is enabled and configured in the
Helper section of HoudahSpot Preferences.

File tagging

HoudahSpot 3 adds the ability to tag files.
Tags are non-hierarchical keywords assigned to files. They serve a similar purpose than folders. The crucial difference being that a file may be assigned several tags and be located by any of them.
HoudahSpot's tagging feature is based upon the OpenMeta technology. It is thus compatible with a growing number of
third party tagging applications.

Tag searches

The HoudahSpot Tray lists your favorite tags as well as tags recently used by HoudahSpot or another OpenMeta tagging solution.
Drag a file to a tag to assign it that tag. Drag a file to the file well to be presented with a window to enter any number of tags.
Select tags and double-click to start a search. Hold down the option key while double-clicking to match any of the selected tags.

HoudahSpot menu bar item

The behavior of the HoudahSpot menu bar item has been changed slightly.
Clicking the menu bar item now reveals the BlitzSearch window.
Right-clicking the menu bar item opens an actual menu listing HoudahSpot templates.