Fixing Spotlight indexing of Markdown content

I ran into an interesting problem this evening. It actually started a few days ago when I noticed that my qq script wasn’t returning searches within the @(metadata) I set up in the note bodies. I figured I’d come back to it when I had time. Then I got a couple of emails from readers who had also noticed this, so I started digging. It turned out that Spotlight had stopped indexing text content of all files with the extension. If I renamed the file to or , it would work fine, but… experiments, markdown, spotlight

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Thanks, Steve

I’m barely qualified to write about Steve Jobs. I’ve only been a Mac lover for about 8 years; when I was younger I laughed at Mac users. When I started using Apple products, I only knew Steve Jobs as a name. In the past few years, though, I’ve witnessed the genius and discipline that Steve Jobs injected into Apple, and I’ve come not only to respect him, but to consider him a personal hero. I can’t express how deeply saddened I am that he’s gone. apple, steve jobs

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