Raycast 1.89 boosts productivity with new focus mode, enhanced notes, and AI attachments
Raycast has rolled out version 1.89, bringing a suite of new features and improvements to its macOS productivity app. The highlight of this update is Raycast Focus, a feature designed to help users concentrate on tasks without distractions. Users can initiate a focus session, set a goal, determine the duration, and block specific apps and websites to maintain focus.
In addition, the update introduces an Attach to AI Chat quick action, allowing users to add files as AI attachments directly from File Search and Clipboard History. Enhancements to the clipboard history include a new confirmation dialog for reducing history length, ensuring users don't accidentally lose important data.
Raycast 1.89 also improves user experience with options to hide the notes window during screen sharing or recording. New action menu items have been added for moving list items and accessing Raycast Notes settings. Furthermore, the update refines the display of inline code in Raycast Notes when used within parentheses.
Several other enhancements and bug fixes accompany these updates, continuing Raycast's commitment to improving user productivity on macOS.
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External links
- Raycast v1.89.0 releasedRaycast • Official source
- Less chaos, more focus - Raycast FocusRaycast • Official source
- Introducing Raycast FocusYouTube • Official source
Comments
I really liked Raycast, so I bought Alfred.
Raycast's subscription model makes it so it's unpleasant to support them. When I decided I liked it enough to pay for it I decided to try Alfred instead since I felt like I could support them in a way that feels morally correct. Alfred is missing some things, but also does some things better. Overall all I can say is raycast was good enough that they drove me away from them. XD
We can agree that Raycast is so good that it pushed you to find an alternative quite as good 😅.
I would also like them to offer a one-time payment option, but to be fair, their AI Chat with multiple LLMs to choose from almost justifies the subscription cost, and the app in general is quite competent in its free version as well.
It'll be interesting to see how AI stuff settles over the years. Right now, it seems like everybody is offering AI plans/addons. I wished more places would do like Apple and just let you provide your own API key. That way you don't have to pay monthly instead just what you actually use. Since unless you're doing—a lot of stuff it's way cheaper, at least in my case, to pay API rates rather than a subscription.