How Apple’s New Spotlight Compares to Raycast
There are all kinds of actions included outside the box. You can add appointments and calendar reminders and define the timers. You can send SMS or start facetime calls. You can even define dedicated keyboard shortcuts for one of these actions.
It is also the exact kind of thing that, so far, Raycast has made that this projector could not. The difference is that of implementation. Apple’s approach is currently only working with Mac applications that implement the projector functionality. Currently, it is essentially limited to Apple’s own tools, but that will change; According to Apple’s presentation for developers, third -party applications will also be able to add actions that are executable inside the projectors. I have not found undefined applications that currently implement this, but I am sure that it will change as we get closer to the fall.
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Raycast, on the other hand, can be improved by extensions built by the user that you can easily install from the integrated store. This has a drawback, mainly that if you want to connect an application, you will need to install and configure the extension yourself. It is not difficult, however, the integrated store offers hundreds of these extensions, and you can install them with a few keys. These extensions can also connect with any service, not only those with Mac applications, which means that web services only like Google Docs are supported. Many of these extensions offer features that the spotlights will never do, such as personalized menu bar icons for things like calendar meetings or the song currently in play in Spotify. I could continue; Raycast’s approach is simply more flexible.
Currently, for power users, I think Raycast is the best choice. This could change because more applications add a spotlight management, especially, especially since users do not need to install anything or configure anything to get new capabilities under Spotlight.
A real clipboard manager
Windows has had a director of the clipboard for years – Windows-V And you will see a list of everything you have copied recently. There have always been many third-party applications that give you a more powerful clipboard on the Mac, including Raycast.
The new macOS update adds this feature to Spotlight, which facilitates the return and the thing you copied earlier during the day. This is the kind of functionality you do not realize that you need before you start counting on it, and I am happy that MacOS finally offers it.
What Raycast has this projector
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With these new features, Spotlight is much more powerful than before, but it is not a replacement Raycast for one. The biggest advantage that Raycast has on Spotlight, at this stage, is the Raycast Store, which makes the launcher compatible with many more applications and services that Spotlight will have long.
But there are other features. Raycast can manage Windows, allowing you to define keyboard shortcuts for things like mooring a window to the left or right side of the screen. He has an integrated extract manager, allowing you to save things that you are constantly reclaimed, so that you can stick them quickly. There is also a distraction blocker tool called Focus. Raycast has, over the years, added all kinds of features that were previously popular with dedicated software, and Apple cannot copy them all.
The Raycast team, for its part, is not concerned with newly improved spotlights. In an article on X, the CEO of the company, Thomas Paul Mann, said that new features will give users a taste for an application like Raycast. “People will come up against limits and want more than one launcher, where we intervene,” he wrote.
I don’t know how true it’s, but I can’t wait to see how everything is developing. For my part, I will probably use the two options for a while and see what I prefer.
