How do I rearrange the order of Spotlight categories?

I believe I used to have the ability to rearrange the search categories shown in Spotlight, but I can't drag to rearrange within System Preferences > Spotlight anymore (El Capitan). Is there some other way to do this?


Solution 1:

Apple removed this feature in El Capitan. I searched deeper in spotlight's plist file:

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

But I can't find any way to re order the entries in this version of OS X.

Further Reading:

  • [Help] Reorder results in Spotlight searches
  • 5 Great New Spotlight Search Tricks in OS X El Capitan