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Goodbye Spotlight. Hello Raycast. [WWDC Sponsor]
Raycast is a native Mac super tool that eclipses and extends Spotlight’s functionality. With a quick keyboard shortcut, Raycast launches apps and so much more:
- Search for and access your files
- Use third-party apps and services like Google Workspace, GitHub, Jira, Asana, Linear, and more
- Check your schedule and join Zoom meetings with a single keystroke
- Start, schedule, and join Zoom meetings
- Access the clipboard
- Set a reminder
- Take a quick note
- Control system functions on your Mac
- And a whole lot more
Raycast also supports Quicklinks that let you open files, folders, and URLs. Quicklinks even accept input, allowing you to use them to execute search queries right from Raycast.
The app has a snippets system now, too, eliminating repetitive typing. With just a few keystrokes in Raycast, you can send a canned email response, drop frequently-used code into your IDE, or grab your company’s brand colors.
Raycast is also extensible with scripts, with over 400 created by its active community of users, allowing you to control your favorite apps like Bear, CleanShot, Craft, and Things, use Apple Music and Spotify, set your Slack status, pick a color, and more.
See for yourself what you can do:
Because Raycast is native, it behaves exactly how you’d expect and is fast and responsive. The app is actively developed with new features shipping every couple of weeks, and it respects your privacy. There’s no login to use Raycast, so your data doesn’t leave your Mac, and your credentials for other services are safely stored in your Mac in Keychain.
Together, Raycast’s powerful features keep you focused on what’s most important to you. You avoid inefficient context switching and eliminate clutter, summoning what you need when you need it, so you can work smarter and more efficiently every day.
Download Raycast for free right now to give it a try and level up your productivity.
Our thanks to Raycast for sponsoring MacStories’ WWDC 2021 coverage.
Meet Daylite: The CRM with Apple Fans in Mind [Sponsor]
For small businesses trying to stay on top of clients, leads, and projects that are evolving every day, it can be tough, if not impossible, to manage everything with just the existing Apple apps in your repertoire. That’s where Daylite comes in clutch. Daylite is a native Mac CRM and business productivity app designed to help you and your team manage more clients, close more deals, and finish more projects.
Daylite is fully compatible with Big Sur and M1-powered Macs and works seamlessly with the Apple features you already use and love:
- Integrate with Apple Mail on Mac
- Share your Apple Contacts and iCal
- Leverage Siri and Caller ID on your iPhone
- FaceID and TouchID support
- Create contracts and other documents by pulling Daylite data into Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
Unlike most Web-based CRMs that just focus on customer relationships and sales, Daylite’s productivity-focused design helps you and your team get more done throughout the full customer lifecycle. From meeting prospects and winning business, to managing the moving pieces on projects, all the way through to following up for referrals and repeat business, it’s all done in Daylite.
Whether you’re in a legal, design, consulting, or other professional services firm, Daylite can help you build stronger client relationships and scale your business. Daylite also offers complimentary onboarding support to help new customers get started.
Ready to do big things with your small business? Start your free 30-day Daylite trial today!
Our thanks to Daylite for sponsoring MacStories this week.
In This Issue
A special Weekly issue for readers featuring ReadKit and a collection of other iOS and iPadOS apps to supplement your summer reading, plus a Timery Club giveaway, a Home hub tip, a very long list of App Debuts, plus the usual Links, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episodes of MacStories...
Previously, On MacStories
Apple Captured in a Single Email Message Apple Tells CNET It’s Making Privacy Changes to AirTags and Has an Android App Coming Later This Year Timery Comes to the Mac and Makes Time Tracking With Toggl Easier Than Ever Vidit Bhargava’s Design Concept for a Menu Bar and Multitasking on iPadOS HomeRun 2 Launches as...
Perks
Interesting Links
Apple updated its Apple Music for Artists website this week, which serves as a destination for information about technologies like spatial audio, tools like Logic Pro, and analytics for artists who offer music through the streaming service. (Link) To mark its fourth anniversary, Ben Sandofsky of Lux provides a detailed history behind the development of...
MacStories Unplugged
[[unplugged_artwork]] Behind the Scenes of Federico’s Coverage of Rome’s New Via del Corso Apple Store Released earlier this week, John has an update on his cul-de-sac, we preview MacStories’ upcoming WWDC coverage, and Federico lifts the veil on Apple’s restoration of historic Palazzo Marignoli, home of the company’s latest flagship retail store....