My current way of filtering is selection, then key commands for filtering. Is there a way to filter immediately? Like hold one or several hot keys while selecting and having the selection immediately be filtered? If not, wouldn’t that be cool?
Hi @piping_hot_licks, not sure I understand what you want.
“Is there a way to filter immediately?” Filter what, exactly?
Reading your description of the desired function, maybe this is obtainable with Select More? (is the opposite of what you describe, but is a ways to selectively select items of the same kind)
I think what the OP wants is to hold down a modifier while doing a drag select, and then only certain items get selected. So filtering the input to a select operation, rather than the output. Personally, I don’t see the advantage to this.
This is what I do already!
Yes this is exactly what I mean. The advantage would be to have one less step to filtering (I use cmnd F + various letters). I figured I’d ask, because there are plenty of things I still don’t know!
Thanks Christian! @Asherber maybe said it better, and apparently it doesn’t exist!
(It’s technically one less step, but not less effort. You still have to make a selection and press a key command, but you’d like to do those things at the same time, rather than one after the other. Note also that if you do them at the same time, you’re limited to selecting just with the mouse and using a key command that can be pressed just with the non-mouse hand.)
Sure, but I still find it appealing as an option