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Raycast have an extensive offering on Mac. Not only as a replacement for Spotlight but as a repository of different app extensions. The company have now released an offering on iPhone and iPad with some shared features in Notes, Snippets and Quicklinks, as well as an extensive AI assistant. This incorporates many of the different GPT models to assist you in writing, researching and learning.

As a subscriber to Raycast Pro, you can also choose the AI Add-on option for accessing larger models directly in Raycast. While this increases the cost of Raycast Pro by a few dollars a month, it also gives you access to AI language models like GPT-4o & Llama 3 Sonar Large for less than the price of a subscription to even a single AI service.

In this short video, Mike gives you a demo of Raycast's AI Add-on including some examples so you can see it in action.

Raycast requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or newer

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In today's show Darcy revisits a popular Spotlight replacement: Raycast. Since his last screencast covering this utility, many new features have been added. These include improved window layout and management tools, handy flight tracking and searchable screenshots and clipboard histories to name a few. The Pro version of Raycast adds AI integration with an inline chat bot that answers your questions and can also generate images from your text prompts, as well as other handy modules like inline translations. Join Darcy and learn how Raycast can enhance your Mac experience.

Raycast requires macOS 12 and newer.

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As a follow-up to his full show on Raycast (SCOM1169), Darcy shows you how to go even further by examining its Preferences window in detail. There are dozens of options available from setting aliases and hotkeys, to appearance and searching options. Take the next step in your knowledge of this great utility!

In his first Friday episode with ScreenCastsOnline, Darcy brings us a utility he's especially fond of, and that's Raycast. Built with Apple's Spotlight as the inspiration for many of its features, it also introduces novelty ways to perform common tasks on your Mac using Extensions. Darcy shows you several of his favourites, many of which involve popular applications such as Zoom and Apple Music. You also how you can use hotkeys in Raycast to make working on your Mac even more fluid.