Putting It All Together

With a Spotlight importer and a Quick Look generator, it’s possible to do some very interesting things in Mac OS X. For example, we can build a smart folder that finds all our recipes. We can then put that smart folder in the sidebar of Finder and easily access all our recipes directly from the Finder. Further, we can turn on Cover Flow for this smart folder and smoothly browse through the pictures of our recipes, as shown here:

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With the included metadata, this opens up quite a few ideas. For example, along with each recipe, we’re storing the time it was last served in the metadata. We can use this information to further ...

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