Spotlight in Leopard is much, much better. So good, in fact, that I am using it to replace QuickSilver. However, one downside to Spotlight is that it doesn't learn as well as QS so certain Applications/Preferences/Files require a lot of typing. To get around this, I am taking advantage of the new Spotlight commands plus TextExpander to create my own favorites list. First, I realized that if I made the Spotlight search take advantage of the Spotlight Commands listed by David Pogue in this hint, I could create a search that will always work to give me what I want as the top hit. Then, I could link that to a snippet in TextExpander, and I will have created a preferred search that is short and sweet. Thus, I linked the text kind:preferenc...

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