Foxtrot professional search upgrade#

This is fixed in v5 – a paid upgrade at $49 with no additional functionality that I would require. More recently, Foxtrot’s quick search window under Yosemite is completely unusable (v4.6) – you type black text in a dark blue window which is completely illegible. No one was going to look into it to fix this aberrant behaviour. Weeks later they acknowledged that they had heard about this bug from other users but couldn’t do anything about it as they could not reproduce it. Sure, there’s worse things in life but this also disables the Foxtrot quick search function. I have issues with the menu tray icon in v4 – it turns up twice in the menu bar after a boot. Where the product severely lets its users down is in its support. And, yes, it does seamlessly search within Papers3 library as if it was just another ordinary location (the recent Papers3 version already allows Spotlight search – and yet I often prefer going through FoxTrot to find out what I need).įoxtrot is good at what it does. What does this one have to do with what I am looking for?‘). To find such ‘needles’ in your ‘haystack’ you really need a professional-grade search tool and so far FoxTrot is my favorite choice.įoxTrot’s UI is not exciting or super-sleek but it’s very clear and functional. The app gives you a feeling a good search engine should provide: ‘ Aha, good I found this one! I’ve completely forgotten about it!’ (instead of ‘ Oh. You definitely don’t remember their name, but you may have tagged them for a year ago and/or you may remember a particular term or phrase in the text. But many reference files used in academic work are not like this.

The speed of getting to the right file really matters if you need it several times a month. through LaunchBar where I index my most frequent folders). Files that are used or have used recently can easily be found through a simple Spotlight search or even navigating to their specific folder (e.g. There is no one-size-fits all search engine.

Searching with FoxTrot Professional in the Papers3 library