My New Mac, Lion Edition

Using Smart Folders

If you’re organizing tax information, you could type the word Taxes in Spotlight every time you need to find a file related to your taxes. But if you added a new tax file or deleted an old tax file, you’d have to retype Taxes into the Spotlight search field to see all the current tax-related files.

To automate this process, you can use a Smart Folder instead. A Smart Folder saves a Spotlight search (such as the word Taxes), so every time you add or delete files that contain the word Taxes, the Smart Folder updates its contents automatically to include those files. No matter how many times you add new tax files or delete old ones, the Smart Folder always displays the updated list of tax files without forcing you to retype Taxes ...