101 Things You Can Do With Raycast

A non-comprehensive list of all the ways Raycast can help you stay in the flow.
1. Launch Applications
2. Search Files
3. Browse Your Clipboard History
4. Append entries to your clipboard
5. Edit your clipboard
6. Do Simple Math
7. Do Complicated Math
8. Convert between units
9. Perform date calculations
10. Keep a history of all of your calculations
11. Check the Weather *
12. Search for GIFs *
13. Search for Emojis
14. Search for Emojis with AI ●
15. Set Timers *
16. Replace Spotlight
17. Lock the screen
18. Save reusable blocks of text
19. Turn your favorite emojis into keywords
20. Create dynamic blocks of code from your clipboard
21. Share snippets
22. Search Google *
23. Have AI search the web ●
24. Not search the web at all ●
25. Take Quick Notes From Anywhere
26. Open Your Latest Download *
27. Copy Your Latest Download
28. Search Screenshots By Content
29. Arrange windows in 58 predefined ways
30. Custom window management commands ●
31. Automate the whole thing with window layouts ●
32. Monitor System Resources *
33. Set up hotkeys for apps
34. Set up aliases for apps
35. Toggle system
36. Emptying the trash
37. Install brew apps *
38. Stay on top of your schedule
39. Join Online Meetings
40. Check your appearance before joining
41. Take a selfie
42. Create Quicklinks for your favorite websites
43. Create Quicklinks for your most used files
44. Create Quicklinks for folders
45. Create Quicklinks for app deeplinks
46. Toggle Bluetooth
47. Control Apple Music *
48. Control Spotify *
49. Create Spotify playlists with AI ●
50. Switch between open windows
51. Manage running processes *
52. Start a Screen Recording *
53. Take a Screenshot *
54. Record audio *
55. Quit applications
56. Force quit applications
57. Automatically quit applications
58. Uninstall applications
59. AI Chat with multiple models ●
60. Browse your AI Chat history ●
61. Add attachments to AI Chat ●
62. Give entire websites as context to AI ●
63. Save and share AI presets with presets.ray.so ●
64. Launch AI commands from anywhere ●
65. Assign hotkeys to AI commands ●
66. Switch Keyboard Layouts *
67. Switch your display resolution *
68. Eject all of your disks
69. Eject one disk at a time *
70. Convert images *
71. Rotate images *
72. Compress images with TinyPNG ▪︎*
73. Convert Text Cases *
74. Measure distances on your screen *
75. Search for Fonts *
76. Pick colors *
77. Convert colors to any format
78. Look up word definitions
79. Translate a word to another language ●
80. Manage your Apple Notes *
81. Use natural language to create reminders * ●
82. Set your slack status * ●▪︎
83. Open files in their default app
84. Choose another app on the fly
85. Track flights
86. Check the time at your destination
87. Sync your setup with the cloud ●
88. Create and share Raycast themes ●
89. Share images of your code with ray.so
90. Create Custom Icons with ray.so/icons
91. Download KZbin videos *
92. Manage pomodoro sessions *
93. Quit all applications at once
94. Quick access to all your system settings
95. View 2 factor authentication codes *
96. Practice your typing
97. Move Raycast around to fit your workspace
98. Reset Raycast Position
99. Create an Organization
100. Share snippets and Quicklinks with your team
101. Throw Confetti
Notes:
Requires a free extension
▪︎ Requires a separate app, service or API key
● Requires a Raycast Pro subscription

[@alanwill]

Holy cow🤯this was insanely good. Had to rewatch a bunch of times in slow mo to get it all and I still think I might need to come back to it again later. Thanks folks!! 🙌🏼

[@yolopookie]

This is just ridiculous. You guys are killing it!

[@vamp07]

This video was a great idea. It got me thinking about a ton of stuff. I will now go back and figure out how to do it.

[@thesobercoder]

Great song choice for the demo! Love Raycast.

[@christophersmith6118]

The ability to quickly check anything about the weather from your menu bar is such a handy little addition!

[@muneeburrehman7761]

Move raycase around was the most sinister mention of this video 😂 btw amazing tool 🔥

[@amolon210]

So basically, we can now just send this video and a referral link to our friends to convert them and make some money. Thanks for the video and Raycast!

[@raycastapp]

That's the mindset 🧠

[@TommyRarivoson]

amazing app. Thank you raycast for making our life easier and faster!

[@rogue_carlisle6167]

lovely!, explored a bit of easy and useful extensions.

[@bartosztobiasz]

Although I have visually watched all your videos and consider myself a professional Raycast user, I have found many helpful tips and tricks, including new extensions, settings and hidden features that I had no idea about, thanks again. 💖 (heart emoji added using Raycast's Emoji Picker, haha)

[@cranfktubner7677]

Jeez 🙄i will have to watch this video 100 times more 🥳

[@raycastapp]

101!

[@j_ham]

floating notes 2.0 wen?

[@kunjkariya2496]

I am currently using 99 of them 😂 Btw thanks for the newer oness🤝💪🏻 It's the best of the best.

[@ZenithQuinn]

brb throwing confetti 🎉

[@raycastapp]

Great reason to be right back 🎊

[@harrymd84]

Easily one of my favorite tools on Mac 🙏🏼

[@JimmyCeeTV]

Best Mac app in history

[@gregpetrov6919]

Thank you! Due to some functions requires extensions would be nice to attach which extensions are required.

[@raycastapp]

The links didn’t fit in the description, but there’s a marker for all commands that need extensions! A quick search in our store should help you find them all. But feel free to ask for any specific one here if you have trouble 😄

[@black-forest-code]

Thanks, I love this video! 😃

[@SneakyJoeRu]

Rectangle does window management out of the box good enough with intuitive hotkeys and is free and easy to learn. Most "features" in the video are gimmicks for what you can do faster with mouse. Rest of the "features" is something for raycast itself. Question - why would I really need that?..

[@zurieeeee]

Raycast is by far the best tool there is for a Mac

[@mattheusswinkels1716]

Where's the button to leave 101 likes? Awesome video! Would be nice in the future to see if features are out of the box or with a store

[@raycastapp]

Check the description for that!

[@mattheusswinkels1716]

@@raycastapp Thanks!

[@melAncHOLY_MAN]

Hi Raycast Team. Love your app! Just upgraded to pro version 💪🏻 Could you PLEASE add the option to take the current windows position and size when creating a custom layout?! PLEASE :)

[@cgpov]

I need this in text form 🥴😵‍💫, will there be a blog post? Killer work btw

[@raycastapp]

We might make one! But for the moment you can check the description for a full list 📝

[@0xAlx]

The best macOS app ever !

[@noodlemind]

How does the Take Notes from Anywhere work? I tried it and only can get the toggle floating notes to appear.

[@BrunoReisVideo]

That’s exactly it 😄

[@DenisRasulev]

What are the extensions to show weather and distance walked at 0:43? Thank you.

[@BrunoReisVideo]

the weather is Weather Menu Bar if i’m not mistaken. the one that shows distance is 103 on the list 🏃‍♂️‍➡️ it’s called Strava Workouts if i’m not mistaken. made by Sam, one of our designers!

[@DguruZ]

Best app ever made!

[@igrb]

you get a point for each item you already did, how many points do you have?

[@raycastapp]

101

[@rmasoni]

You actually made me rewatch and count lol I have used 38, but I knew about most of them. And this video taught me 3 or 4 new ones!

[@kelindrawn]

Is there a way to search within Apple Mail? I found an extension, but there is no search command for Mail. Same for the native Photos App.

[@Nightizm]

Is there a master list on a doc or web page or notion file of everything you can do in Raycast?

[@demodrift8605]

A thing that I liked in Alfred was the ability to move a selected document to a folder just by hitting a shortcut and search for the folder that I want to move the document to. Any perspective to create that? Thanks!

[@FBracht]

This video lies! Says it's 8:08 minutes, but it took me half an hour because I kept pausing to test cool stuff out. Unacceptable!!

[@raycastapp]

We love to see it! 😭

[@Marz259]

best app ever made!

[@poczatekkodu]

any advice what use for 25. quick note?

[@saifhussain3303]

Confetti being the most important feature of course 👀

[@raycastapp]

Always 🎉

[@felipeleite1102]

Best app ever.

[@kenanfyi]

Great! Firefox extension for AI when?

[@mamale8]

WOW! dont have much life to learn them all!!!!

[@BhEaN]

Wait, wait, wait.... did you say "custom window layouts"? OMG... can you please stop releasing AMAZING things every 5 minutes? I haven't enough time to check all of them!!

[@raycastapp]

And we won't stop! 🪟

[@gurvanbk]

@@raycastapp Can we please have a feed with an exhaustive list of new features every time one is released? 😭

[@dinoscheidt]

Does it work like the window manager “Moom App” for Mac ?

[@Daniel_Zalman]

I thing that I liked in Alfred was the ability to search the App Store. I don't believe you can do that natively and I don't believe there's an extension for it. A shame! Love Raycast, regardless.

[@raycastapp]

102. Search the Mac App Store www.raycast.com/say4n/mac-app-store-search 😄

[@Daniel_Zalman]

@@raycastapp There is a God!

[@FBracht]

@@raycastapp For real???? I've always wanted this too!

[@_ped_]

@@raycastapp 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@saurabhchopra]

Nice

[@jason.tostring]

2:51 Which keyboard key can type out a diamond shape?

[@Ololade3]

It’s called a hyper key. A combination of the Cmd, option, control and/or shift keys.

[@Kitze]

banger vid

[@realavx]

That's TOO MUCH power brah..

[@BobbySmithUX]

what was that star hotkey?!?!??!?!

[@raycastapp]

It’s a setting! You can replace occurrences of the “hyper key” (control, option, command, shift) with that icon

[@JeremyDeBose]

Bring back the Light Saber! Just call it Light-Based Sword or something so Disney won’t come after you 😂

[@raycastapp]

The Mouse is indeed our biggest enemy 🖱️

[@tregalloway]

Only feature I wish for now is windows support

[@ayushkumarchandra]

Raycast is a godsend! Saves me from installing so many apps 🎉

[@j14wei]

I love it on my Mac but I can't use it on my Windows

[@supaflytimmy]

Please add chapters to this video for each feature 😂

[@BrunoReisVideo]

c’mon man 😅

[@adityapethkar3725]

Floating Notes 2.0 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Rengah]

Wait what. I really didn't know like 95 of these... What the hell 😂😂

[@vspianist]

You forgot "create markdown table"

[@vspianist]

1:55 how do I turn off the web search?

[@BrunoReisVideo]

currently you can’t manually turn it off for all quick AI searches, but the command chooses when to use the web or not! what i did for the demo was choose GPT 3.5 as a model and ask a question i knew it’d have the answer to without having to search the web

[@vspianist]

​@@BrunoReisVideo Which search engine does it use for the links?

[@piotr_sss]

​@@BrunoReisVideo Hi Bruno, what's this star/diamond symbol used as a hotkey at 2:50? First time I see something like this :)

[@BrunoReisVideo]

that’s the hyper key, it represents all of the modifier keys pressed together. in Raycast settings you can configure that combination to show up as the little star!

[@BrunoReisVideo]

@@vspianist i have no idea 😂

[@khaleel_as]

All of this all at once makes me not want to dive into the app. Its overwhelming 🥴

[@validatedev]

102: Ask for a fact to AI about ducks via duck-facts :)

[@raycastapp]

quack

[@validatedev]

@@raycastapp 🥰❤️🦆

[@johannesmarquart7375]

WTF what is the blow my mind I fell like in last age

[@danisimo1826]

Where lightsaber?????

[@wixlogo]

feeling Jealous as a windows user

[@raycastapp]

I feel ya! Sent from my Mac

[@CialisInWonderland]

And this is icing on a deliciously moist cake 😋 about 10 years ago I was frustrated and swore off apple computers, built a desktop and learned how to install Linux (arch, btw), but ended up using windows as my daily driver (because of, well, drivers) for the next 8 or so years. During that time I noticed the absence of some really subtle yet incredibly useful features built into the core of macOS (e.g. space bar on image/video files to quickly preview, full (confident) control over network traffic, and the fundamental difference in how text is rendered) These are just some of the small things I’m sure most users either don’t notice or know about, but I’m writing this bc these little things add up to an experience that fellow power users may be totally unaware of if they’ve never used the platform as a daily driver. Now, when Apple came out with their own silicone a couple years ago, I happened to be learning to code and made the switch back and boy is it better than ever

[@iamlisaross]

Raycast ups the ROI on the switch by 1000%

[@_ped_]

we have 100 more on the list lol

[@BrunoReisVideo]

please no

[@he-man_]

It’s getting bloated