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Finally, I found a hack! I wrote a blog post about this which you can find here (in Chinese).

These are the key steps:

1. Open the file with Xcode:

   ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
   

2. Within the orderedItems node, add a Dictionary item as follows:

3. Save the .plist file.

4. Open System Preferences → Spotlight, you will find a blank entry, this is what we had added above. You can drag it like other entries to change the order as you like.

5. Restart Finder using killall Finder in Terminal.app.

6. You are done! Now type a word in spotlight and see what happened.

Finally, I found a hack! I wrote a blog post about this which you can find here (in Chinese).

These are the key steps:

1. Open the file with Xcode:

   ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
   

   If you do not have this file, change the order System Preferences → Spotlight which will cause the OS to create it.

2. Within the orderedItems node, add a Dictionary item as follows:

3. Save the .plist file.

4. Open System Preferences → Spotlight, you will find a blank entry, this is what we had added above. You can drag it like other entries to change the order as you like.

5. You are done! Now type a word in spotlight and see what happened.

Finally, I found a hack! I had write a blog post about this hack, you can find more details here (written in Chinese).

For your convenience, I translated the key steps to english and put it here:

1. Open the file..

   ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
   

(You may need to install Xcode, because this is a binary plist, or you can download a modified file in the post above.) 2. Within orderedItems node, add a Dictionary item, key-values is:

    enabled: YES (boolean), name: “MENU_DEFINITION” (string)

3. Save the .plist file
4. Open System Preferences → Spotlight, you will find a blank entry, this is what we had added above. You can drag it like other entries to change the order as you like
5. You are done! Now type a word in spotlight and see what happened.

Finally, I found a hack! I wrote a blog post about this which you can find here (in Chinese).

These are the key steps:

1. Open the file with Xcode:

   ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
   

2. Within the orderedItems node, add a Dictionary item as follows:

3. Save the .plist file.

4. Open System Preferences → Spotlight, you will find a blank entry, this is what we had added above. You can drag it like other entries to change the order as you like.

5. Restart Finder using killall Finder in Terminal.app.

6. You are done! Now type a word in spotlight and see what happened.

Finally, I found a HACK! I had write a blog post about this hack, you can find more details here(written in Chinese).

For your convenience, I translated the key steps to english and put it here:

1. Edit ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist (You may need to install Xcode, because this is a binary plist, or you can download a modified file in the post above)

2. Within orderedItems node, add a Dictionary item, key-values is:

   enabled: YES (boolean), name: “MENU_DEFINITION” (string)

3. Save the plist file

4. Open System Preferences -> Spotlight, you will find a blank entry, this is what we had added above. You can drag it like other entries to change the order as you like

5. You are done!

Now try type a word in spotlight and see what happened.

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Finally, I found a hack! I had write a blog post about this hack, you can find more details here  (written in Chinese).

For your convenience, I translated the key steps to english and put it here:

1. Open the file..

   ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
   

(You may need to install Xcode, because this is a binary plist, or you can download a modified file in the post above.) 2. Within orderedItems node, add a Dictionary item, key-values is:

    enabled: YES (boolean), name: “MENU_DEFINITION” (string)

3. Save the .plist file
4. Open System Preferences → Spotlight, you will find a blank entry, this is what we had added above. You can drag it like other entries to change the order as you like
5. You are done! Now type a word in spotlight and see what happened.