Spotlight in OS X Yosemite comes with an all-new design, that covers up the middle rather than the corner of the screen. It also adds a number of new capabilities like unit conversion, place suggestions and more.

So here’s how you use Spotlight in OS X Yosemite:

• You can open the Spotlight search bar by clicking the search icon at the top right of the screen, or by pressing ⌘ + Space.

• Once the bar appears, you can start typing your query, and Spotlight will intelligently show you the best type of results, based on your query.

• The results also show you a preview for files, mails, messages, bookmarks, and other file types in the right panel.

Spotlight searches a lot of types of content, including applications, definitions, files and folders, mail, messages, places, and more. You can customise this from System Preferences > Spotlight. You can uncheck result types you don’t care about, and you can also set their priority by changing their order.

Let us know what you think about the new Spotlight in the comments below.