Yes, you can use your Spotlight hotkey for Raycast. In fact, this is what we recommend to keep your muscle memory. You can learn in the Hotkey section how to disable Spotlight and stick with your hotkey.

Yes! You can use Script Commands to quickly tailor Raycast to your needs or build a full extension.

Raycast is designed to be clean and fast with less noise. Hence, most searches are nested inside commands. There are two ways to open commands faster.

You can assign a hotkey to a particular command and open it directly. For example, you can set ⌥ B to the Search Browser Bookmarks command and search bookmarks easily. We also made a short video about hotkeys if you’re not familiar with it.

You can also assign an alias to any particular command and then type <alias> <space> in Raycast to open it. For example, you can set f as an alias to the Search Files command. Now you can open Raycast and type f <space> to search for files.

Yes, this is an integrated feature. If it is not working for you, please double check that your permissions are up to date (required: Removable Volumes permission)

Open Raycast Settings using ⌘ , or from the menu bar icon. In the General tab, select the larger preferred Text Size.

In version 1.26.0, after launching the Store and Developer API, we moved some core Extensions that were previously built-in to Raycast to the Store. You'll now be able to find Asana, Browser Bookmarks, GitHub, G-Suite, Jira, Linear, and Zoom Extensions in the Raycast Store.

Yes you can, go to Advanced tab in preferences and select Vim Style

If you get the above dialog it means that your Raycast database password in your Keychain has been reset and no longer matching the one in Raycast. The only way to proceed from here is if you have a backup of your keychain (or timemachine backup)

How to get it from the timemachine backup:

1. Go to this folder: Your Time Machine backup volume > Backups.backupdb > [choose a date when RC was working] > [your machine name] - Data  > Users > [your user name] > Library > Keychains (You can skip this step if you have the file already)
2. Open the file login.keychain-db
3. Search for database_key
4. Pick the older one, copy the password, and paste into the new one

Right now, you can't open events with Google calendar as we depend on the Apple API, but this is something that we are looking into improving in the future.

This is because Firefox has disabled accessibility features by default. You can enable at your own risk by following the following steps.

• Open Firefox
• Type about:config in the address bar and hit return
• Search for accessibility.force_disabled
• Click the edit button near the matching result (pencil icon)
• Set the value to -1

The latest version of Google Drive (49.0 or later) stores files on a separate Volume which cannot be indexed by Spotlight. Because Raycast uses the Spotlight index to search for files and folders it returns no results for Google Drive.

As a work-around you can log in to the Google Workspace extension in Raycast and use the "Search Google Drive Files" command.

All the native commands mentioned above are executed locally, and the data they handle is also stored locally in an encrypted format. Not only for these commands, but most of Raycast’s functionality can be used without the need for an account. Our servers only store Raycast app settings and command-related data, such as Snippets, Quicklinks or Notes, when you opt-in to Cloud Sync.

Raycast can be uninstalled from your computer just like any other app. Several tools are available to assist you with this process. However, if you prefer to remove it manually, after deleting the Raycast app file, here are the locations of all related files that should also be deleted:

• ~/Library/Application Support/com.raycast.macos
• ~/Library/Caches/com.raycast.macos
• ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.raycast.macos
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.raycast.macos
• ~/Library/WebKit/com.raycast.macos

Moreover:

• You may have a ~/.config/raycast
• You may have Raycast entries on your Keychain. Open Keychain Access, look for Raycast in the top-right search in order to check those entries.