Windows search with advanced query syntax #3101
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Hi, in the past I suggested a plugin to query windows search with advanced query syntax. That was promoted to issue but then decayed for lack of dev juice. So I made a personal version I'm sharing here.
First recalling what about, the thing is that in the standard file explorer Flow Launcher plugin I cannot do searches to match whole phrases (for instance "social security"). Current behaviour is to find "social" somewhere in the doc, and "security" elsewhere. Digging a bit what is desirable is to support what's called advanced query syntax, that allows whole-phrase match and a lot of other things. Including searching by metadata, searching by user-friendly time-periods, boolean operators, etc. Sorta Google's own syntax, a semi formal notation for power users but not so tight that requires database admin skills. I ended coding it for myself, and it seems to work, but I can't give support or put time to push it through the store, so I'm donating the thing here in case file-explorer core plugin devs or other enthusiasts want to do something with it. Feel free to fork this repo.
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