Bernard Sheppard's Post

@NanoRaptor I don't know if you would consider using a windows machine, but I don't know (but would like to assume) if Macs do the same:

For an indexed folder (e.g. Documents, but really anywhere you've told the indexer to index contents), it is
a) remarkably good and fast at finding contents of PDFs, and if you want to save that list for later (rather than just search again)
b) you can pin the search to quick access.
c) once pinned (I can't work out how to do it without the interim step of pinning to quick access - but that's because I'm lazy) you can save the search (effectively as a shortcut) - effectively that's your note

So, you can have a search for "*.pdf angle structure dromaeosaur"

Here's an example where I had a quick glance at PDFs in my documents folder, saw one that I imagined had shane warne inside it, and ran the search and pinned it:

From there, I saved it, and it is there as my shortcut: