 The entries of any BibTeX database that has been opened and saved in BibDesk are made accessible to Spotlight searches anywhere in macOS, so any system-wide Spotlight searches will also search title, author, abstract, and keywords fields of BibDesk databases.Individual references are listed in Spotlight and, when opened, will be selected in BibDesk.BibDesk database entries can also be searched with some other macOS applications such as Alfred and DEVONthink.