The simplest answer, from what I can see, is to make sure that all comments are comma-delimited. So, "google music" becomes "google, music" without quotes.
I have been using this as a "tagging" system for the past few years, and it definitely works just like this. I can't remember where exactly I discovered that commas were necessary, but I had the same problem beforehand, and no problems afterward. The only other hitch I've hit is that occasionally I'll search for a file or folder that I know I've tagged, and it won't show up. This is because sometimes, for no good reason, these comments will just get wiped. I've never figured out how or why this happens, but it doesn't happen often, and it's never caused any serious problems.
Regardless, use commas, and that should solve your problem. If comments are not used in Spotlight searches, this symptom is most probably caused by defect file permissions. I have followed these instructions found here which effectively cured the problem:.
There are certainly alternative ways to correct the defect file permissions, like for example using Apple's Disk Utility. However, Apple claims that starting with macOS Sierra, file permissions are automatically protected by the OS, and need not be repaired any more. This is either not true in all cases, or the defect permissions may be a legacy from upgrading to macOS Sierra from an earlier OS X version.
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Learn more. Asked 4 years, 6 months ago. Active 1 year, 8 months ago. Viewed 1k times. Roel Roel 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Add a comment. If you try to use Spotlight to open these documents, you may find that having all the copies of the plan in the results is a bit confusing. Enter Spotlight—or more specifically, Spotlight Comments. Using Spotlight Comments, you can build your own indexing and filing system, which Spotlight will then add to its index.
Within seconds of typing your abbreviation, Spotlight will have added that entry to its database. Where this approach can be quite useful, however, is in lumping all project-related documents together into one set of Spotlight search results.
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