{"id":36630,"date":"2022-12-28T22:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T04:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=36630"},"modified":"2022-12-31T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:49:47","slug":"in-praise-of-foxtrot-professional-search-software-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2022\/12\/28\/in-praise-of-foxtrot-professional-search-software-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of FoxTrot Professional Search Software for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have sometimes struggled to comb through several decades of legal research (as well as science and philosophy research) on my iMac 4tb hard drive. I’ve used Apple Spotlight’s multi-faceted document search function over the years and it is often quite helpful. Today, however, I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtrot-search.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FoxTrot Professional Search.<\/a> It is incredibly powerful, allowing you to pinpoint documents, images, spreadsheets and mail in dozens of ways, including proximity searches and tailor-made search strings with exceptions. You can apply complicated search requests to multiple indices on your main HD, as well as external drives (I’ve got another 3+ TB of data on my external drive. I’ve been exploring the parameters of FoxTrot for a couple of hours now and I highly recommend it. $100 per workstation. I hope this helps somebody out there . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have sometimes struggled to comb through several decades of legal research (as well as science and philosophy research) on my iMac 4tb hard drive. I’ve used Apple Spotlight’s multi-faceted document search function over the years and it is often quite helpful. Today, however, I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtrot-search.com\">FoxTrot Professional Search.<\/a> It is incredibly powerful, allowing you to pinpoint documents, images, spreadsheets and mail in dozens of ways, including proximity searches and tailor-made search strings with exceptions. You can apply complicated search requests to multiple indices on your main HD, as well as external drives (I’ve got another 3+ TB of data on my external drive. I’ve been exploring the parameters of FoxTrot for a couple of hours now and I highly recommend it. $100 per workstation. I hope this helps somebody out there . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,57,6362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-software","category-software-computers","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36631,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36630\/revisions\/36631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}