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Some Raycast things

18 August, 2026

Just getting some more blog notes content out there. I can't imagine using my MacBook without Raycast, the hotkeys and shortcuts are just muscle memory. Calculator and currency conversion are some of my favourite features, and here's a couple more.

These are great for being able to do internet-based searches without having to open your browser. Below is one of my favourite ones, it'll use Google's site search and search across Reddit only.

I like looking up artists' and bands' discographies and seeing what their acclaimed albums are:

raycast quicklinks

App-specific extensions

Opening apps via Raycast is great and fast, but doing contextual actions with those apps is even better. Here's Zed as an example. I almost always open my repos with Search Recent Projects.

raycast Zed app extension

Aliases

I've added some aliases as well to save even more seconds. I type these and can activate the extension with Enter.