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On your Mac, use Spotlight System Preferences to change the categories that appear in Spotlight search results, and to exclude specific folders or disks from Spotlight searches. Learn how to use Spotlight. To change these preferences, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Spotlight .
Spotlight plugins aim to extend search utility and help you quickly locate files on your Mac. For instance, the Flashlight on Mac Sierra or El Capitan is one of the most popular Spotlight plugins that allows you to programmatically process queries and add additional results.
Spotlight can help you quickly find apps, documents, emails, and other items on your Mac. With Siri Suggestions, you can also get news, sports scores, weather conditions, stock prices, and more. Spotlight can even perform calculations and conversions for you.
Is it possible to extend spotlight's search feature to support additional commands?
For example, is it possible to define custom web search aliases, meaning I could type yt and it would provide results from youtube.
Alternatively, is it possible to add additional system commands were I could type sl (or some variant) to put my computer to sleep.
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