Snippets

Overview

Snippets are a powerful way to save time by storing or expanding frequently used text with just a single keyword.

Create Snippet

To create snippets, use the Create Snippet command in root search.

Fill the Snippet’s content
Select a Name and Icon that makes it easy to recognize
Add the keyword that will trigger your text expansion
Add Tags or assign existing ones

Dynamic Placeholders

You can make your snippets dynamic by using placeholders. Just hit { to open the Dynamic placeholders menu and see all currently supported ones.

Here’s what’s available at this point:

Name	Placeholder	Description
UUID	`{uuid}`	Inserts a universally unique value, such as “E621E1F8-C36C-495A-93FC-0C247A3E6E5F”.
Clipboard Text	`{clipboard}`	Inserts your last copied text. The placeholder will be removed from the snippet when you use it if you have not copied any text recently.
Date	`{date}`	Inserts only the current date like 1 Jun 2025.
Time	`{time}`	Inserts only the current time like 3:05 pm.
Date & Time	`{datetime}`	Inserts both date and time like 1 Jun 2025 at 6:45 pm.
Weekday	`{day}`	Inserts the day of the week like Monday.

Expand Snippets

The true power of snippets is comes from snippets expansion. After saving a keyword to your snippet, whenever you type this keyword we will automatically replace it with your snippet text. Your dynamic placeholder will also get injected into this text.

Search Snippets

You will find all the Snippets you created in the Search Snippets command.

Inside that view, you will be able to search by name or hit Ctrl P filter by the tags you created.

Actions

With a Snippet highlighted, you will be able to hit Enter to Copy to Clipboard.

You can also hit Ctrl K and access the following actions:

Paste Ctrl Enter
Pin/Unpin Snippet Ctrl .
Edit Snippet Ctrl E
Duplicate Snippet Ctrl D
Create New Snippet Ctrl N

Settings

In the Snippets tab in Raycast Settings, you will be able to:

Select the Primary Action (Copy to Clipboard or Paste to Active App)
Assign a custom Hotkey or Alias to the Search Snippets and other associated commands

What’s coming next

In future releases, we plan to add:

Additional options for dynamic placeholders
Rich text formatting