M3 feature request - Spotlight like search?

democrite · 06-22-2016, 08:01 PM

Hello,

This just came up recently and I thought it'd be incredibly useful. I have a particular 10+ volume medical work of various foods and herbs, plus dozens of similar works. When looking for something in particular, spotlight on OS X can easily find any ePub or PDF on my computer that contains a particular word. I think some iOS PDF readers also index and let you search contents. It could be useful too for cookbooks and particular ingredients, author or work titles mentioned in non-fictional criticism, and there's probably other cases. Maybe someday?

kguil · 06-23-2016, 06:14 AM

@democrite In the future I look into the possibility of making this kind of indexing offline (i.e. press a button and wait rather than automatically in the background). Background indexing for book content will cause all kind of battery drain and heat issues - people consistently keep thousands of books in their library.

democrite · 06-23-2016, 06:57 AM

Awesome. Thank you Kris. Indeed battery drain could be a problem. I was also concerned with index size though spotlight does ok and without all the html tags, it doesn't seem so bad.

06-22-2016, 08:01 PM	#1
democrite Evangelist Posts: 425 Karma: 77256 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	M3 feature request - Spotlight like search? Hello, This just came up recently and I thought it'd be incredibly useful. I have a particular 10+ volume medical work of various foods and herbs, plus dozens of similar works. When looking for something in particular, spotlight on OS X can easily find any ePub or PDF on my computer that contains a particular word. I think some iOS PDF readers also index and let you search contents. It could be useful too for cookbooks and particular ingredients, author or work titles mentioned in non-fictional criticism, and there's probably other cases. Maybe someday?

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06-23-2016, 06:14 AM	#2
kguil Addict Posts: 1,215 Karma: 1836966 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Malta, Europe Device: Marvin for iOS	@democrite In the future I look into the possibility of making this kind of indexing offline (i.e. press a button and wait rather than automatically in the background). Background indexing for book content will cause all kind of battery drain and heat issues - people consistently keep thousands of books in their library.

06-23-2016, 06:57 AM	#3
democrite Evangelist Posts: 425 Karma: 77256 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	Awesome. Thank you Kris. Indeed battery drain could be a problem. I was also concerned with index size though spotlight does ok and without all the html tags, it doesn't seem so bad.

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