Keywords for Frequent Folders - a la chrome "search engines"

[reelismism]

Please educate me if this exists already, but I've been thinking re how useful an option to specify keywords for frequently used folders would be.

At the moment I have everything.exe setup with bookmarks and keyboard shortcuts to access search certain directories - like my portable apps directory D:/MyApps/.
I type shift-alt-w and my bookmark fills the everything address bar with: *.exe|*.lnk|*.bat "D:\MyApps\"
I then type and I see the relevant files in that directory.

One could specify a bunch of directories (maybe as part of bookmarks) they regularly use with keywords and could then simply search within these dirs just by typing the short-name (like say "m" for MyApps) - the MyApps dir could simply appear on the top of the list of all the other "m" results:
A) hit tab, tab to open said directory
or
B) double space and keep typing to search within said directory (similar to typing a drive letter, i.e: "D: . . . ")

(It'd be more logical to use these like driver letters, I.e. "m:" to search MyApps, yet I was thinking it could almost double the time to make an action vs tab-tab, double-space, would also be easier for mobility challenged individuals).

That would be AWESOME!

This is similar to how "search engines" work in chrome.
In "Address bar search engines" I have duckduckgo.com search as short-key "d", so to search that engine in chrome I simply type: d, tab, search-term, enter to get a search result.

Thanks again for Everything!

Your long time fan, Morgan

[void]

Everything has macros.

A filter or bookmark can define a macro.

Macros can be recalled with the macro name followed by a colon (:)



Consider setting your MyApps bookmark macro to m

• In Everything, from the Bookmarks menu, click Organize bookmarks....
• Select your MyApps bookmark and click Edit....
• Change the Macro to:
  m
  (use a different letter if you have a M: drive)
• Click OK.
• Click OK.

Now when you search for m: the search is replaced with the bookmarks search.



I will consider recalling macros with tab-tab or double-space.
Thank you for the suggestion.

[NotNull]

If you are running Everything 1.5, there is also the /define serach command.

Example:
In the Everything search bar, type or paste

/define pf="c:\program files\"

and press ENTER.

Now you can search for

pf:

instead of typing

"c:\program files\"

Or in your case:
/define m="D:\MyApps\" ext:exe;lnk;bat

[reelismism]

This is great info, thank you!

I can definitely get pretty close with the above, and yes if you could consider the tab-tab, space as an option that would be amazing!

EDIT: I just installed 1.5 to have a play with and already I've had 4 crashes, after activating content indexing, things stopped responding, crashed entirely, force quit and re-open, deactivate content index, crash again, force quit again.

[void]

Thank you for your feedback reelismism,

Everything is most likely having trouble reading content with an iFilter or is running out of memory.

Is Tools -> Options -> Content -> Index file content stuck on enabled?
Did you use the default settings under Tools -> Options -> Content?
Is Everything 1.5 stable with Index file content disabled?