I have seen so many applications like this, and they seem to miss that the backend of windows search is actually pretty amazing, and has providers for a multitude of file types both binary and text, which allows for full content search and not just file name, title, and description. The truth is too its actually really easy to access programmatically. Instead of them rolling their own indexer, they should use somethi…
If the backend of Windows Search is amazing, why is the front-end user experience abysmal? The problems just don't seem like front end problems: the search is occasionally slow, it doesn't even reliably find installed programs by their name, and if the result pops up while your next keystroke is underway it will sometimes lose the result even if that keystroke is correct, and somehow finding the result again will req…
Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows
#51There seems to be more than one index. There is the index of scanned file content, an index for apps, and maybe another one for help. There is also a query timeout. If you start searching after a boot on a slow laptop you get a subset of results dependent on which index is loaded before the query times out. Kill the start menu and try again. And again. And then it works smoothly. It's quite poor.