nowfound

Work · April 12, 2020

Salmon

Spotlight for Finder

Salmon launched on April 12, 2020 with 83 votes, #658 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Search automatically in current folder, in children of the current folder, and globally on your Mac all at once. Multiple selection to highlight your selected items faster. Powerful modifiers to filter and order search results as detailed as you want!

Spotlight for files and folders

Salmon is a powerful search tool specifically for files and folders. Search automatically in current folder, in children of the current folder, and globally on your Mac so you don't have to lift a finger. Multiple selection to highlight your selected files faster. Powerful modifiers to filter and order search results to your heart's content. Available for macOS 10.14 (Mojave), macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and above Have you ever get frustrated because the search feature in Finder never automatically search in the current folder first. And even after having to tell Finder to search in the current folder, the search result takes over your current directory, making it harder for you to understand…from mummymammoth.com

Does a similar job

all alternatives →
  • Recent File Picker for macOS2025 · apps.apple.com · ▲100

    Quick access to recent files

  • Power Menu for Finder2018 · fiplab.com · ▲334

    The workflow enhancing Finder extension for Mac

  • Meta Search2016 · finance.yahoo.com · ▲360

    Search your Desktop, Google Drive, Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote.

  • Clew 1.02020 · ▲176

    Spotlight search for all your cloud apps.

  • Folder Peek2022 · apps.apple.com · ▲135

    Put folders in the menu bar on your Mac

  • OpenFolderOct 2025 · apps.apple.com · ▲101

    Open any folder on macOS instantly

More work this month

the category →

Source: Product Hunt launch ↗

Launched alongside, April 2020

the whole month →
  • https://github.com/OlexG/finclaw ^ repo if anyone wants to contribute. I realized that sometimes I'm pretty good at making random guesses about the future. (I.E, I think OpenAI will beat Anthropic in the short term, etc...) However, I'm bad at converting these guesses into actual market plays I can profit from. As such, I wanted to make a tool that connects to the right APIs and launches a swarm of agent experts to generate related plays based on your prediction. The very first super shitty V0 MPV just has Polymarket/Kalshi bets, but I will be adding a more complex…

    AI · 2020 · youtube.com

  • Mac-native app for screenshots, recordings and collaboration

    Dev tools · 2020 · cleanshot.com

  • Templates to help you say no in any situation

    Work · 2020 · starterstory.com

  • Free legal documents for startups

    Work · 2020

  • For bureaucratic reasons, a colleague of mine had to print, sign, scan and send by email a high number of pages. To save trees, ink, time, and to...

    Life & fun · 2020 · gitlab.com

  • Largest curated collection of 6,500+ book recommendations.

    Work · 2020 · goodbooks.io