Raycast: Supercharged productivity
A lot of tools online promise a massive productivity boost, but only a few actually keep up on that bold promise: Raycast is definitely one of them and I personally am an avid user of the tool!
For those that got curious, Raycast (Opens in a new tab) is a virtual command center meant to replace the bland Mac Spotlight search with an incredible set of tools such as inline currency conversions, timezone conversions, superior file search and anything else that comes to your mind right at the tips of your fingers!
Youtuber Christian Lempa (Opens in a new tab) has a great video about Raycast (Opens in a new tab) and how it helped him transform his workflow; you'll find everything I want you to know in that video and more!
You'll find that it comes out of the box with a lot of things, but you'll immediately want to customize it to integrate the tools that you use on a daily basis, for which they have an amazing set of extensions in their official Raycast store (Opens in a new tab).
Some of my favourite extensions, in no particular order, are:
- Vim Bro - Search Vim Commands (Opens in a new tab) by Ajay Prem Shankar (Opens in a new tab)
- Spotify Player (Opens in a new tab) by Artem Konovalov (Opens in a new tab)
- Google Translate (Opens in a new tab) by Slavik Nychkalo (Opens in a new tab)
- Tailwind CSS (Opens in a new tab) by Victor Navarro (Opens in a new tab)
(I wonder if they misspell your last name as mine xD) - Bitly URL Shortener (Opens in a new tab) by Blessan Mathew (Opens in a new tab)
- Keyboard Maestro - List Macros (Opens in a new tab) by Eric (Opens in a new tab)
- Emoji Search (Opens in a new tab) by Federico Zivolo (Opens in a new tab)
- Notion (Opens in a new tab) by Henri (Opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT (Opens in a new tab) by Abiel Zulio M (Opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Repository Search (Opens in a new tab) by Thomas Paul Mann (Opens in a new tab)
- Google Search (Opens in a new tab) by Matthew Blode (Opens in a new tab)
- Visual Studio Code (Opens in a new tab) by Thomas Paul Mann (Opens in a new tab)
- Arc (Opens in a new tab) by The Browser Company (Opens in a new tab)
(and damn this is such an amazing browser, it deserves its own snippet!) - GitHub (Opens in a new tab) by Raycast (Opens in a new tab)
- 1Password (Opens in a new tab) by Khasbilegt.TS (Opens in a new tab)
- Apple Notes (Opens in a new tab) by Thomas (Opens in a new tab)
Seriously, have a look at the Raycast store (Opens in a new tab) because if you thought of anything you'd want to launch and do with one simple command, it probably already exists!
