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I installed Raycast recently and kind of like it, but haven’t really dug deep. About 10-15 years ago, I was a religious user of an earlier take on this keyboar
by jitl 2y ago
I installed Raycast recently and kind of like it, but haven’t really dug deep.
About 10-15 years ago, I was a religious user of an earlier take on this keyboard driven fuzzy search launcher/action thing: Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/ https://qsapp.com/). The main difference between Quicksilver and other command-based programs like your traditional Unix shell is that Quicksilver is <object> <verb> instead of <verb> <object>. So you’d search for a file, hit tab, then fuzzy search for an action like “send to”, tab, search for contact and press enter to send.
It’s like a super-slick way of building a pipeline of actions that’s type aware.
I haven’t gone far enough with Raycast to understand if it works the same way, so far I’m just using it as a Spotlight replacement, where it feels just as fast / faster and slightly less annoying about suggesting “1 pascal” instead of 1Password.app when I type “1pa”.
- striking 2y agoI also loved Quicksilver. Your comment inspired me to reinstall it. Turns out, it still works great. I've been using Raycast for about a year now and haven't really loved it. So I guess I'm switching back! Link for the curious: https://qsapp.com/index.php https://qsapp.com/index.php
- jitl 2y agoOh, amazing it works. I stopped using it during a period where it wouldn’t run on newer macOS — again probably like 10-ish years ago. Sounds like someone breathed new life into it. There’s not a ton of activity but it’s definitely maintained on GitHub these days: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/commits/main/ https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/commits/main/
- j3g 2y agoQuicksilver was dope. I replaced it with LaunchBar. I really enjoy not take my hands off the keyboard.