Productivity Power Hour (#3) - Let's Talk About Raycast!

[@benxneo]

Raycast is amazing, been using it for a while now and can't imagine using a MacBook without it!

[@BenCodeZen]

Same here! 🙌

[@Miradis]

Let's hope they won't start charging for it!

[@kevinrakestraw3787]

I’ve been an Alfred user for yearrrss. Bought a few power packs myself. Finally switching over. Been wanting to every since raycast hit my radar but have been procrastinating all the migration work. Solid video 🔥. Cheers!

[@BenCodeZen]

As a fellow Alfred user, I empathize with the procrastination 😆 Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@kelly22820]

I just start using Raycast on my 14" M1 Macbook Pro it really is an amazing app.

[@BenCodeZen]

Amazing! Glad to hear that it's helpful in your workflow.

[@paul.van.hemmen]

21:22 Moving files is actually quite easy. Copy with Command+C as usual but use Command+Option+V to paste. This will move the file(s). Also try Yoink if you need something more mouse oriented.

[@BenCodeZen]

Oh interesting! Thanks for the tip!

[@telespielstube]

20:18 It would be cool to see you doing a comparison video of Dendron and Foam.

[@BenCodeZen]

Ahh that would be cool. I'll add it to the backlog!

[@railpressureflip]

This video convinced me to switch to Raycast completely from Alfred! Great video, thank you so much! Life's so much faster now haha

[@BenCodeZen]

Thanks for the supportive words! I'm glad that the video was helpful. Hope you're having a blast with Raycast!

[@railpressureflip]

@@BenCodeZen Thank you! I weirdly wake up in the morning now looking forward to using my macbook more than my phone haha, its that major! Thanks again, underrated video!

[@t.b.3511]

Raycast is the best app in the mac hands down.

[@iustintoader353]

this helped a ton with switching over to mac. thanks!

[@BenCodeZen]

You're welcome!

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

Do you use anything for IPAD PRO Keyboard (as none of these apps are available). Its a bit annoying to get using to spotlight but use different app on mac and ipad. Also is it really needed for productivity alfred/Raycast when spotlight does whats needed ?

[@BenCodeZen]

Good question! I haven't thought about this just yet with my iPad either. Let me mull it over and add this question to the backlog!

[@ent2263]

I've been an Alfred Powerpack user for years and that's exactly the reason I decided to give Spotlight another go. And honestly, it does everything I was actually using Alfred for (as opposed to things I enjoyed thinking I could do with it). Now with Apple's Shortcuts integration it can probably do even more but I'm too occupied with other things to investigate further right now.

[@BenCodeZen]

@@ent2263 Nice! I definitely have to find ways to leverage more of Apple Shortcuts. So much potential there!

[@mtzrmzia]

wich font are using in the code editor at 11:32 ? :D nice video btw

[@BenCodeZen]

Thanks! I believe I was using "IBM Plex Mono" in this video!

[@lukejanssen479]

this was a great walk through! But you now have me curious about dendron if thats a video you're interested in making

[@Towelie3107]

I'm watching this one year later and immediately checking if "Move file` feature is added in the meantime... It is! 🙌

[@BenCodeZen]

Wooo!!!!!

[@MK-ef9iu]

34:45 when you come back to Alfred just use the arrow up to have history commands that were before

[@zoreket]

Can you use ray cast to creat a shortcut to make a specific app action? Trying to make shortcut to make cleanmymac do a quick clean.

[@BenCodeZen]

That's a good question! I saw places for scripting, but this is something worth investigating!

[@lubomirherko7331]

Comparing raycast file search to Finder's one seems silly to me. Noone does that in MacOS. Everyone use spotlight search, where you can find os files as fast as in raycast. That was noob portion of the video. I agree with all the rest, though. I'm raycast user too.

[@tinotaylor]

Great video and comparison when talking about Alfred!

[@BenCodeZen]

Thanks!

[@derekkelly485]

With Alfred I was able to use a keyboard command to move files from my desktop to any folder as I would type the folder path and Alfred would move it there. Can raycast do this?

[@BenCodeZen]

Good question! I believe there are scripts that would make this possible, but I'll add this to the backlog to explore this since I'd love this functionality too!

[@MK-ef9iu]

You can move it by hitting option key and ⬆️ on the specific file. And with down button to move it

[@cptbrncls7050]

Alfred file actions can move files pretty easily

[@BenCodeZen]

That is certainly can! Alfred will always have a special place in my hall of fame for productivity tools 💚

[@skaya6838]

Hi Ben, how you manage your projects? I'm using obsidian for my daily notes and reviews and Habitica for my habits, but struggle to find a place to organize my side projects. Also what's your workflow for dev related knowledge? I really like the new focus to productivity power hour and the summaries on your blog, keep going!

[@BenCodeZen]

Hey Larizza! Thanks for the words of encouragement! Project management honestly has been quite a bear. I tried doing it all in Obsidian, but honestly felt it was a lot of admin work for what I wanted. I'm currently on working something to help solve this, but in the meantime, Notion is my go-to for more complex database things. For dev-related knowledge, that all goes into Obsidian. Let me know if you have any other questions!

[@skaya6838]

@@BenCodeZen Thanks for the reply Ben, I've been slowly moving back to notion for project and course tracking but had to fight with the urges to have one god tool 😅, looking forward for what the next videos brings. I watched the obsidian template video on twitch yesterday (sadly no live 'cuz work), the Base Note is a life saver, and will be quite helpful for my dev/literature/garden/daily notes workflow.

[@BenCodeZen]

@@skaya6838 So glad to hear that the base note concept will help! Yeah the god tool is something I'm searching for too and exploring how I might build it... 😄

[@ACohen]

Do you recommend keeping both Alfred and Raycast on my mac, or just remove Alfred?

[@BenCodeZen]

I recommend just using Raycast unless you have custom Alfred scripts that power your workflow!

[@tonyhawk123]

Nice overview. +1 sub.

[@BenCodeZen]

Thanks for the sub! Really appreciate it

[@Raithlin]

If you liked RayCast thenit's time for you to move from Chrome to Arc. You won't look back.

[@barbieroalex]

Nice thank you Ben! but i'm on windows 😢

[@BenCodeZen]

Oh no!!! 😭 That's rough. It sucks that a lot of productivity tools seem to be exclusive to macOS. Here's to hoping they come out with a Windows one soon! 🤞

[@MK-ef9iu]

Thx for the video. But I Think there is no added value. Alfred remains more powerful 😊