It might be that it’s taking into account how recently you used the thing or something.
As long as any infrastructure used to hint to the indexing engine that its index is dirty to avoid fully-rescanning the filesystem occasionally is available to non-Apple software, I assume that you could just use a different software package for this.
kagis
I haven’t used any of these, and can’t recommend them, but it looks like Mac developers have built alternatives:
It might be that it’s taking into account how recently you used the thing or something.
As long as any infrastructure used to hint to the indexing engine that its index is dirty to avoid fully-rescanning the filesystem occasionally is available to non-Apple software, I assume that you could just use a different software package for this.
kagis
I haven’t used any of these, and can’t recommend them, but it looks like Mac developers have built alternatives:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/spotlight-alternatives-mac-search/
I mostly use
plocateon my Linux machine if I want to do a search across filenames on the filesystem as a whole.