[code_biologist]

+1 on the need for non-Spotlight options. Source code makes a mess of spotlight for everyday usage. I like Leap a lot for multimedia browsing with more precise search capabilities than spotlight: https://ironicsoftware.com/leap/

[Jakob]

You can remove folders from spotlight under "Spotlight Privacy". I removed my source code folders, which vastly improved search results.

[code_biologist]

100%. That's when I discovered I needed non-spotlight search to bulk search what I just excluded from spotlight.