Just install Raycast and start using it for Google Search/AI; the best way to improve Raycast is to learn and customize it over time
Don't get intimidated by advanced use cases; it takes time to memorize and take full advantage of Raycast's features
Begin to familiarize yourself with the Raycast Settings
window
Start disabling commands you don't use by selecting them, using the Action Menu
via CMD + K
and then Disable Command
Change the Pop to Root Search
preference to your liking in Advanced Settings
If you are using your mouse, you're doing it wrong 😉
Reorder, enable and disable Fallback Commands
using Manage Fallback Commands
tl;dr: Enter
= Google Search and Tab
= AI model of your choice
Customize your Quick AI models in settings
Anything you find yourself typing a lot you should create a snippet for such as your email, phone #, address, calendar link, etc.
Check out Explore Snippets
for useful suggestions
If you mistype something often, you can use a Snippet to force autocorrection of it
Add snippets for you favorite emojis (Example: I use /sal
for 🫡)
You can use dynamic placeholders to leverage more complex snippets and even recursive snippets
Create Quicklink
will autofill if your active window is a web browser
You can use dynamic string inputs that will auto encode for URLs
Example: Search your past tweets with https://twitter.com/search?q={Query}%20from%3A0x_Osprey&f=live
- replace 0x_Osprey with any username
Clipboard History
is absolutely amazing and you won't know how you used your Mac without it
Lots of useful functionality in the Action Menu
of each item such as Save as Snippet
and Save as File
Switch Windows
allows you to quickly search and switch to any active application/window
This has entirely replaced Cmd + Tab
for me
Window Management
allows you to quickly shift your windows around
I hotkey Move Left
and Move Right
and also use Rectangle for dragging windows to portions of my screen
It has a lot of over granular commands on by default (ie Bottom Center Sixth
) so disable those if you don't use them
Search Menu Items
(Deeplink) allows you to use text search for the Menu bar (including nested items) of your active application/window
I personally prefer this as it has replaced a lot of app specific hot keys I used to have to memorize and rebind
Examples:
In VS Code, I can hit my hotkey and type Terminal
instead of using my mouse to find the option
In Chrome, I can hit my hotkey and type History
to open my history
Emoji Search
allows you to quickly search emojis
It also was recently updated to include AI search functionality
There is likely an extension for the popular apps you use
My most used are: Linear, Notion, Spotify Player, Toothpick (Bluetooth Switching),
Underrated Extensions
ScreenOCR: Extract text from screen captures
Coffee: Prevent the sleep function on your Mac
Color Picker: Pick and organize colors on your Mac
Meme Generator: Generate memes with the help of Imgflip API
Temporary Email: Quickly and easily create a temporary email
CoinGecko: Get crypto data from Coingecko (price, ticker, ranking)
Youtube Downloader: Download YouTube videos
Remove Background: Remove background from image with the Mac Vision API
You can make custom extensions and install them without needing the store
See Banteg's EIP extension that I use even though it's unpublished
Raycast also allows for really easy creation of Menu Bar Commands
My most used is an Executive Summary command that will quickly summarize any webpage I'm looking at using the {browser-tab}
dynamic placeholder
Install the Raycast Browser Extension so that these commands can use the text on your browser as an input
Use the Explore Prompts
(Deeplink) feature to find various premade prompts
There is a public repo with popular scripts that you can download (audit and use at your own risk)
Here are a few of my custom scripts. Note that they may require application or library installs to function properly:
Parse and Open: Automatically parse and contextualize your clipboard
Example: Will open up Etherscan if you have an Ethereum address or transaction hash copied in your clipboard
ETH Price: Retrieve and copy the current ETH Price
Spongebob Text: TuRn yOuR ClIpBoArD TeXt iNtO SpOnGeBoB MeMe fOrMaT
Rewind Twitter Search: Opens a search for your tweets from 1 year ago
Shorten URL: Shortens a URL in your clipboard
Telegram Search: Searches and opens Telegram chats
Thanks for reading! Feel free to use my referral link and try Raycast Pro! Tag me on /raycast if you have questions!
Hey I would like to try the pro version, May I ask for a referral link? Cheers!
Day XXX of Apple being absolute fools for not purchasing /raycast for a couple billion: https://www.raycast.com/blog/series-b
I wake up everyday and thank @zd for blessing me with /raycast 🫡 https://x.com/0x_Osprey/status/1590249857767583748
the pleasure is mine sir 🤝🏼
you might be even deeper into the extensions + scripts than i am now 😆 need to catch up and see how you’ve been using it
https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips May have to update this now that I'm controlling my entire Apartment with hotkeys 😉
wow can’t wait to read this
Why is it worth billions to Apple?
Spotlight Pro™ and it's the best form for an AI interface across the OS
How does that increase sales of hardware?
It switched me over and I think the integration of the AI interface would be another selling point 🤷🏽 https://x.com/0x_Osprey/status/1725128449751122163
I tried to get a Raycast workflow going and never really found one that changed the game for me. I am a pleb tho and don't code.
Which AI services are you a recurring monthly subscriber of? For me - only ChatGPT. Considering Claude / Perplexity.
ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot but think I might cancel Copilot and add Cursor and Perplexity. Friend of mine recently told me he just uses Raycast which ends up being a great deal for all of the models so might check that out too.
Claude and chatgpt only, but inclined to cancel chatgpt
i churned from chatgpt a couple months ago. been pretty happy w free tier across all the services tbh considering trying premium again w claude, whose free tier has generally been the most useful
Superwhisper.com - fav product found this year Invisibility.inc to have all models in one sub (Raycast works well too, but I find performance lackluster somehow) Perplexity for anything search related - free version works though Claude Pro for the artifacts when coding - Opus is wild Would do Cursor if more serious about devwork
Rabbit gifted me perplexity and I would have gladly paid for it given my usage.
I get em all via /raycast https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips https://raycast.com/?via=raycast
yoo this is an alpha leak! i use raycast but had no idea
From the AI Commands section of Pro Tips Article: My most used is an Executive Summary command that will quickly summarize any webpage I'm looking at using the {browser-tab} dynamic placeholder: https://gist.github.com/0xOsprey/79000e1e99b4db110f74ea1e2ac9b2af Install the Raycast Browser Extension so that these commands can use the text on your browser as an input: https://www.raycast.com/browser-extension?via=raycast Use the Explore Prompts command within Raycast to find various premade prompts: raycast://extensions/raycast/raycast-explorer/explore-prompts
I swear Joe just make a Ray cast memecoin at this point
Claude UI is starting to become a differentiator though with Artifacts: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9487310-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them
Been using Deepgram and Gemini but as APIs rather than consumer tools
got tired of how slow spotlight has become so I switched to raycast shill me your raycast essentials!
Enjoy! https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips
Confirming that @osprey was right, /raycast is the best thing you can download for your computer/productivity right now. wow. https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips
by far the app I use most frequent
https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips?referrer=0x2f60d2bb84eb8df6951f7215ef035ef052ba2725 bow down
if getting set up on raycast, is the AI essential? i have ai all over the place... i pay for notions, and gpt rn.
try it for free - AI commands will change your life with the Chrome Extension: https://www.raycast.com/hey/1f2ba780 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/raycast-companion/fgacdjnoljjfikkadhogeofgjoglooma
u gave me these links before and i couldnt find them. thx
start easy - but then eventually look back at this: https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips
do you use desktop app or only extension?
You have to use desktop app The extension allows your commands to pull info from your active tab on browser via {browser-tab}
https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips?referrer=0x2f60d2bb84eb8df6951f7215ef035ef052ba2725 “Anything you find yourself typing a lot you should create a snippet for such as your email, phone #, address, calendar link, etc.”
You're so smart
I would love to be raypilled. I remember using Alfred years ago but never used the workflows or other bells and whistles it promised. I mostly want better file indexing and a fuzzy spellcheck like google. I also fully understand the jump from Terminal → iTerm. Is the same to be said about Spotlight → Raycast?
custom functions i look up ens resolved addresses all the time now i can just ens: sdv.eth bam into my clipboard
It's way more than terminal -> iterm
I would say so! I have a video that’s a little old but shows some of the my favorite features https://youtu.be/lhJwEckGi4U?si=F8b7pmDvF7yV5dQc
This is what I'm talking about! Spotify controls. Great gif search and view. Extensible with React (!!!). Builtin clipboard manager. Confetti hotkey. Say no more!
See what you think 🫡 https://paragraph.xyz/@0xosprey.eth/raycast-pro-tips
My updated /raycast Pro Tips list is live 🫡
great choice of extensions ser 🫡
how'd you arrive on Mixtral 8x7B for AI?
It find it the best balance between speed and quality for context summarization Using other models for other prompts/commands
lol Turbo 4o already live 🤌
In the latest blogpost, @osprey shares a comprehensive guide on using Raycast - from basic tips to advanced use cases. The author discusses how to customize it over time, disable unused commands, and tweak settings. They also delve into features like Snippets, Quicklinks, Extensions, AI Commands, and custom scripts.