Meet Raycast, my digital sidekick

Published 2025-01-26

For me, it started with an app called Quicksilver. After a while, Apple took that idea and made Spotlight, but Spotlight worked differently.

Then I found Alfred – it did the same thing as Quicksilver but also so much more.

Alfred is great, but my new sidekick is Raycast. The biggest difference is speed—or at least perceived speed. I don’t have any numbers to go by.

Raycast makes many of the routine tasks you do repeatedly much quicker. For someone who gets a minor panic attack when watching people move around their windows with the mouse and then drag them into misaligned windows on top of each other, a tool like this is a must.

So, with no further explanation. The things I use every day

• Launch apps
• My Schedule
• Window management (recently combined with AeroSpace)
• Snippets
• Clipboard History
• Hotkeys

Things I use once in a while:

• Spotify Player

There, use your keyboard.