

HoudahSpot 6.0 has two ways of filtering search results - that can sometimes run into the thousands, which isn’t very helpful to find the needle in the proverbial haystack - to help you focus on relevant files by only showing you a subset of your search results. Holding the shift key while clicking clears a previous selection and selects only the last clicked tag. The tag cloud allows you to incrementally refine your search by simply clicking a tag to restrict your search to files having that tag. It also shows the number of occurrences of each tag. Very obvious when you start HoudahSpot 6.0 for the first time is the file tag cloud, which shows both favourite file tags and all the tags found in the current search results. This plug-in allows HoudahSpot to include Mail message files in your search results. It’s become a plug-in that runs within the Mail application. Yet, starting with macOS Catalina, Apple Mail messages are no longer available through the Spotlight index used by HoudahSpot, so its developer had to find a workaround.

HoudahSpot 6.0 does again search Apple Mail messages. On macOS Catalina, HoudahSpot couldn’t search through your Mail messages. HoudahSpot 6.0 comes packed with features and enhancements that will improve your productivity. HoudahSpot 6.0 adopts the new Big Sur user interface with a fine-tuned new look, new icon, and a redesigned toolbar. The app adds support for Macs with Apple Silicon processors.
