Blazing fast universal search: Raycast

Blazing fast universal search: Raycast

I'm sure today's app will be a game changer for you. It will help you save time 🥷. Although this one's a Mac app, I'm listing down a few Windows alternatives at the bottom. Enjoy the read! 👇

The Problem and The Pitch

How do you search on your computer? 🔍

📁 Do you navigate your folders for a specific file? 🏃‍♂️ Or do you go to Notion looking for a note? 🌐 Or do you head over to Google and search for your query?

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You shouldn't be! That’s the old way.

If you do that, you’ll get distracted. In the next moment, you’ll have drowned in other Notion pages or a meme on Twitter. Instead, you can search for it on Raycast in an instant.

And that's how you achieve a flow state (inspired by Superhuman)

🙅 Avoid context switching

✅ Make the next action obvious

🔉 Get clear & immediate feedback

Raycast is a blazing fast, universal search bar. That integrates with (almost) anything you use. It lets you search in other apps, complete tasks, and act as a central control for other apps.

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It is what Spotlight and Alfred aspire to be. 10x better.

What's special?

Every once in a while, a new product is built that seems like magic. It makes us want to alter our workflow and question the way we did things in the past.

Notion, Figma, and Calendly are some of them.

Raycast's ⚡ speed, 🔗 integrations, and ♥️ community put it in this elite group.

  1. ⚡Speed: It helps you save time on all things that take time - searching, typing, and calculating. With Raycast, your default action will be to summon its search bar for everything.
Calculate anything in an instant: basic math, conversions, dates are a breeze with Raycast.
Calculate anything in an instant: basic math, conversions, dates are a breeze with Raycast.
Use Snippets to insert frequently typed text, such as canned emails, code pieces, URLs and more.
Use Snippets to insert frequently typed text, such as canned emails, code pieces, URLs and more.
  1. 🔗 Integrations: The ability to control actions 🤯 in other apps like Notion, Figma, and Chrome make it unstoppable. It helps build muscle memory and avoid learning new shortcuts.
Access Notion pages directly via Raycast. No more clicking through Notion to find the right page.
Access Notion pages directly via Raycast. No more clicking through Notion to find the right page.

  1. ♥️ Community: Raycast's 3,000+ strong community contributes with new commands and integrations at break neck speed. They're the true believers in its potential.
The community interacts via Slack to build popular commands. All three favorites here are built by the community.  Search for Figma files built by @tanguyles, Plant trees while searching with Ecosia by @iamsasivarnan and Look up npmjs packages by @MrMartineau.
The community interacts via Slack to build popular commands. All three favorites here are built by the community. Search for Figma files built by @tanguyles, Plant trees while searching with Ecosia by @iamsasivarnan and Look up npmjs packages by @MrMartineau.

In effect, the ♥️ community contributes with 🔗 integrations which in turn enables ⚡ speed.

🔥 Stop chasing around browser tabs and tools to get work done.

The simplest things take way too many clicks. Not to mention the time spent in front of loading indicators on websites 🥱. With Raycast, you can control your tools with a few keystrokes ⌨️. The command line inspired interface unifies tools as commands to cut through the noise ⚡

The new workflows that Raycast enables are magical 🪄

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