OS X Yosemite: Find specific types of items when searching
If you’re looking for a specific type of item on your Mac, such as an email or image, you can specify it when performing a search. To specify the type, add the text “kind:[type of item]” at the end of your search. For example, to search for your images of New York City, enter “New York City kind:images.” To search for your email messages that mention Anne Johnson, enter “Anne Johnson kind:email.”
You can use these keywords in Spotlight, Finder, and Open dialog search fields.
| Type of item | Keyword |
|---|---|
| Apps | kind:application kind:applications kind:app |
| Contacts | kind:contact kind:contacts |
| Folders | kind:folder kind:folders |
| | kind:email kind:emails kind:mail message kind:mail messages |
| Calendar events | kind:event kind:events |
| Reminders | kind:reminder kind:reminders |
| Images | kind:image kind:images |
| Movies | kind:movie kind:movies |
| Music | kind:music |
| Audio | kind:audio |
| | kind:pdf kind:pdfs |
| Preferences | kind:system preferences kind:preferences |
| Bookmarks | kind:bookmark kind:bookmarks |
| Fonts | kind:font kind:fonts |
| Presentations | kind:presentation kind:presentations |
There are several other keywords that you can use to help you find items, such as from, to, author, with, by, tag, title, name, keyword, and contains. To use a keyword, enter it followed by a colon, then enter your search term. For example, enter “author:Emily” or “title:New York City.”