My Raycast Setup

What is Raycast?

Raycast, in my opinion, is the best best utility you can get on macOS (soon for Windows). At its core it is a free spotlight replacement but it is so much more than that. I've been using Raycast for over 4 years now and I could not live a day without it. Raycast has a huge assortment of built-in features such as window management, clipboard history, snippets, searching and so much more. One of my favorite features is its OS level AI integration, you have the ability to talk to AI anywhere with one hotkey.

Extensions

Raycast is built on React and because of that it has a massive open source extension library. Some extensions I use are:

• Google Fonts - Search Google fonts

• Zed - Open recent Zed projects

• Penpot - Open Penpot projects (created by me)

• Color Picker - Pick a color from your screen

• Coffee - Stop your Mac from sleeping

Hotkeys

Raycast is extremely customizable and it is designed to be used with both keyboard and mouse, but I try as much as I can to use the keyboard. Without the mouse I can open apps, resize windows, search snippets/files, move windows and much much more. There is a special key in Raycast called "Hyper Key". This is a customizable key (e.g. Caps Lock, Left Shift, Right Control, etc) that you can use to set up hotkeys, for instance I have my hyper key set to Caps Lock and I use it to activate most of my shortcuts.

My Hotkeys

Opening Apps

• ⇪ + Music

• ⇪ + Ghostty

• ⇪ + Zed

• ⇪ + Browser (Zen)

• ⇪ + AI (Raycast)

• ⇪ + Notes (Raycast)

• ⇪ + Rreminders

• ⇪ + Snippets (Raycast)

• ⇪ + Thunderbird

• ⇪ + Passwords

• ⇪ + Y Messages

• ⇪ + Logi Options+

• ⇪ + Clipboard History (Raycast)

• ⇪ + Files (Raycast)

• ⇪ + Emojis (Raycast)

Resizing Windows

• ⇪ + - Make Smaller

• ⇪ + + Make Larger

• ⇪ + Enter Toggle Fullscreen

• ⇪ + Space Almost Maximum (fill up most of the screen)

• ⇪ + Backspace Restore (restore the last window size)

• ⇪ + Web Dev with multiple apps in predefined positions and sizes

Moving Windows

• ⌃ + ⌥ + C Centre

• ⌃ + ⌥ + ↑ Top Half

• ⌃ + ⌥ + ← Left Half

• ⌃ + ⌥ + → Right Half

• ⌃ + ⌥ + ↓ Bottom Half

• ⌃ + ⌥ + J Bottom Left Quarter

• ⌃ + ⌥ + U Top Left Quarter

• ⌃ + ⌥ + K Bottom Right Quarter

• ⌃ + ⌥ + I Top Right Quarter

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