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macOS has so much of the prep work for this kind of thing, but Apple has completely dropped the ball on the UI.

Spotlight parses and indexes all the existing metadata in your files (music ID3 tags, photo EXIF tags, etc - run `mdls` on a file in a terminal to see all the stuff it's extracted) and this could all be used to make some pretty powerful UIs, but all Apple has done is made one very handy universal search UI, and then a very poorly designed specific search UI, and then made stored searches (which are also useful, but limited in practicality by how bad the UI to create them is)



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