❓ Why

A productivity tool that replaces your Spotlight on mac with a Spotlight on steroids. With a lot of integrations, it’s an amazing tool to boost your productivity.

🖊️ Account creation

Download raycast for their website and install.
Suggested to replace CMD + Space with raycast. Follow their instructions during installation.
After disabling the spotlight commands as suggested replace the Raycast command to CMD + SPACE

🧰 Getting Started

Follow the raycast walkthrough guide to get familiar with it (within raycast itself).

⭐ Tips

Suggested extensions from the store

To install Store extension, open raycast, and type “Store”. Here is a list of our favorites (Feel free to add new ones here):

Novu - list all useful sites, trigger notification and more
GitHub - Quickly view open pull requests, workflows, issues, and more.
Linear - Quickly navigate between issues and create new ones.
Doppler Share Secret - Share secrets easily with a perishable link
Jetbrains - quickly access toolbox projects
Zoom - Quickly generate zoom links (on zoom settings you can enable copy meeting link to clipboard after creation to speed up this process )
Emoji Search - quickly find the emoji you need
Coffee - Prevent the sleep function from your Mac.
Figma - To quickly open personal Figma links
Spotify (Optional) - to manage the Spotify player

Quicklinks

You can easily create quick links to access frequent sites fast. Some examples for quick links:

Our Notion page
GitHub repository pull requests
GitHub repository issues

🔖 Learn more

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Provide some useful links to learn more. This can be docs, youtube videos or any materials.

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