Changelog

⚙️ New Extensions Preferences

We've revamped the Extensions tab in Preferences, making it easier to search and manage your commands and scripts. You can also set aliases and hotkeys right from this list (Note: The shortcuts tab was removed since it's no longer needed).

🔢 Calculator

We've added a bunch of little upgrades to our already powerful calculator. It now shows you more context when making calculations, and a last updated timestamp on currencies.

For example, typing 400+200 will show 600 as normal, but now with the written version in the label. Currencies now show the name of the currency, and timezones will show the absolute time as extra context, plus many more!

✨ New

• History: Press ↑ in an empty root search to navigate through previously searched terms. Previous calculations and scripts with arguments are supported as well.

💎 Improvements

• Navigation: Pressing the delete (backspace) key to go back now also work on screens without a search bar
• Reminders: "Create Reminder" command now supports draft mode. Your changes won't be lost if you go back to root search while having an unfinished reminder.
• Added an action to show info in Finder for apps in the root search
• Added an action to open a script command after it was created
• Added an action to duplicate a script command and open it in the default editor
• Improved support for Chinese and other non-latin character sets in the root search

🐞 Fixes

• Script Commands: Fixed an issue that might have caused scripts to not finish properly in fullOutput mode
• Script Commands: Fixed an issue where the package name isn't set when creating a new command
• Script Commands: Fixed issues with terminal codes to support UTF16 character handling.
• Asana: Fixed an issue with descriptions not rendering newlines properly
• Root Search: Fixed an edge case where items with assigned single-letter aliases could not be found in the root search
• File Search: Fixed some edge cases and an issue where search terms with double quotes did not work
• Fixed an issue where Raycast sometimes didn't restart after updates

💎 Improvements

• Root Search: Now you can use ⌘ 1...9 shortcut to quickly jump to N-th item in the list
• Script Commands: Added support for terminal colors in fullOutput mode 🎨
• Script Commands: Added URL detection for fullOutput mode making them clickable and available via the action panel
• Navigation: Pressing delete (backspace) key will now act as "Go Back" if the search bar is empty
• File Search: Folders can be opened with text editor apps via "Open with..." action
• File Search: The default search scope now includes all locally mounted volumes and the home directory
• Calculator: Support for noon/midday and midnight in time calculations
• Calculator: Support for crypto currencies, e.g. Bitcoin or Dogecoin
• G Suite: If you are logged into multiple accounts in the browser and use Raycast to create a new Google doc, it will now be created under the account you use in Raycast
• G Suite: By default, all drives you're a member of will now be searched
• Create Script: Added author, authorURL, description fields
• Create Script: Added templates for Python, Ruby, NodeJS. Improved code templates to help with arguments handling for each of supported languages.
• Calendar: Added support to launch Microsoft Teams, Skype, Cisco Webex, Jitsi, BlueJeans, Whereby video calls directly from Raycast. No more searching for links, instead just press a key.
• Calendar: In My Schedule, the Welcome greeting with details about today's events will stay at the top even while scrolling down the events list for quick info.
• Forms: Token fields now support images, f.e. GitHub assignees now show the avatar or Linear labels a colored circle.
• Jira: Added an action to copy issue key and title
• Root Search: Global hotkey will be displayed for selected command or app if it's set
• Mission Control: The Raycast window is now "transient" and does not show up in mission control any more
• Browser Bookmarks: Bookmarks can now be searched in folders via the search term, e.g. "dev swift" or "swift dev" would find the bookmark "swift" in the folder/tag "dev" – works for all folders listed in the filter dropdown

🐞 Fixes

• Calendar: Fixed Zoom meetings detection in Calendar Events allowing to directly join Zoom meeting in native application
• Reminders: Fixed an issue where reminders created in Raycast wouldn't trigger notification on macOS/iOS
• Browser Bookmarks: Fixed showing the top-level folders for Chrome and Brave in the filter dropdown; fixed the naming for Safari "Favourites"

✨ New Linear Features

The Linear extension got an upgrade! New joiners can use OAuth to sign with one-click, while existing users can continue to use their API token. We added a new command to show issues of the Active Cycle. The command works across teams and you can select a specific one that you're part of.

Sub-issues are ideal when you need to group more work. They're also great for breaking down tasks if different assignees work on the same issue. You can specify the parent issue when creating a new issue or select it via the Action Panel.

Estimates are a great way of communicating the complexity of each issue to calculate whether a cycle has more room left. You can estimate issues in Raycast via the Action Panel for existing issues or when creating new ones.

Last, we added actions to add or remove labels, change project and move issues to the next cycle.

💎 Improvements

• Browser Bookmarks: Improved loading and syncing of bookmarks
• Browser Bookmarks: A new dropdown menu in the bookmarks list allows you to select a specific top-level folder to show
• Browser Bookmarks: Added disk caching for Safari Reading List icons
• Window Management: Added a new command to restore the previous position and size of the focused window.
• Script Commands: Non-executable script command files will be automatically converted to executables when importing in Raycast
• Calculator: Many improvements around dates and time, such as support for airports as timezones ("10am sfo to lhr"), military-style timestamps ("1945h + 30 mins"), relative times ("tomorrow in 1 week", "now in 3 days", "today in 2 weeks"), improperly formatted dates, volume to weight conversions, and more
• Calendar: Added support for Around to join meetings in the desktop app

🐞 Fixes

• Root: Fixed a bug where some apps didn't have a title.

💎 Improvements

• Calculator: A lot of improvements around fractions, time unit phrases, clock times, week numbers, performance
• Preview Features: A new preview feature checkbox in preferences ("Boost ranking by previous searches") enables increasing the ranking score of an item when a search term was previously used to open that item
• Root Search: We accelerated the decay of ranking scores when an app or command hasn't been opened recently
• Root Search: Additional keywords of some apps and preferences are now searchable
• Root Search: We now show results even if you slightly misspelled app or command names
• Browser Bookmarks: Frequently and recently visited bookmark items are sorted to the top
• Browser Bookmarks: Added support for the Brave browser
• Browser Bookmarks: For Chrome and Brave, you can now choose a different profile via preferences
• Window Management: Added a command to toggle fullscreen
• Window Management: Added commands to move the focused window to the edges of the screen
• Floating Notes: Double click the toolbar to re-position the floating window to the top right corner

🐞 Fixes

• Root Search: Fixed finding app and command names containing diacritic marks (e.g., é, ü)
• Root Search: Fixed a regression that slowed down root search
• Calendar: Fixed an issue where Raycast would prevent your Mac to sleep
• Calendar: Fixed badly formatted tooltips for video conference data
• Jira: Fixed a case where the create issue form could not be displayed when the summary field was removed from the screen configuration in classic projects
• Jira: Issue key is now always uppercased in "Copy Branch Name" action
• Preview Features: Fixed the app not being restarted after changing certain features
• Preview Features: Fixed a bug with the "Find apps and preferences via file system" preview where apps with the same display name would not show up properly in root search
• Browser Bookmarks: Fixed a bug where favicons could not be displayed

That's it. It's our last release for 2020 😱 We wrapped up the year with a hackathon and a bug bash. The update is packed with small improvements and we couldn't resist to release some of our hacks. It's been great to rock this crazy year with all of you. We'll close the virtual Raycast HQ for a couple of days to recharge. See you all in 2021 🎆

🔖 Browser Bookmarks

We've added a new and frequently requested extension for searching your browser bookmarks. Search your bookmarks by name, domain, or tag, and open and copy links via the Action Panel. You can enable the extension in the preferences and choose your browser sources–currently we support the default profile of Chrome and Safari including reading list items. Happy browsing!

📝 Floating Notes

During the hackathon, we built a simple notes extension that stays on top of all other windows. The notes are a great way to write down your daily to-dos, prepare a tweet or jot down a thought you want to pick up later. You can enable Floating Notes in Preferences → Extensions.

💡 Pro tip: Use shortcuts to toggle the notes window for even quicker access.

✨ New

• Auto-switch Keyboard Layout: Now you can enforce Raycast to always switch to English input source when opening the window. Can be useful for people who often jump between english and other languages. You can enable this feature in Preferences → Preview tab.

💎 Improvements

• Calculator: Improved copying of unformatted answers (e.g., does not copy currency symbol)
• Calculator: Added action to replace input with answer for multi-step calculations
• Linear: Added fallback search for issues
• Reminders: Improved sorting for reminders with due dates
• Reminders: Added time for due dates inline for quicker readability
• G Suite: Added action to open files in Google Chrome
• Dashboard Scripts: Added last refresh time to command palette title
• Dashboard Scripts: Added display of alias shortcuts
• Clipboard History: Added support for formatted / rich text
• Clipboard History: Added a preference to set direct paste as primary action
• File Search: Now you can drag files out of Raycast window using mouse
• File Search: Calendar events, contacts card data and contact groups are not displayed any more in the list of search results
• File Search: Improved preview display performance for certain file types
• Preferences: Added keyboard navigation (⌥ + ↑ / ↓) for the extension list
• Preferences: The empty "buffer" area below lists can now be scrolled

🐞 Fixes

• Window management: Fixed a bug where windows with their center outside of the screen couldn't be moved or scaled
• Reminders: Fix keyboard shortcut to create reminder and close Raycast window afterwards
• Reminders: Fixed opening the date picker drop down when a number is entered
• Calendar: Fixed a bug when joining Zoom calls would fail when Zoom wasn't installed
• Preferences: Fixed a bug where preference shortcuts where broken after entering an alias

👤 Contacts

Use our new Contacts extension to look up your contact's details. Search for a contact by simply typing their name and use the Action Panel to start an email, copy information, call the person and more.

🖼 Enhanced Clipboard History

The Clipboard History now supports images, files, links and colors in addition to text. Filter by content type to search what you've copied before. New actions allow to reveal files in the Finder, open links in the browser or copy colors in different formats.

✨ New

• Shortcuts: You can now assign aliases and hotkeys to apps and system preferences
• System: New commands for "Sleep" and "Sleep Displays"

💎 Improvements

• Performance: General improvements to make the app snappier
• Script Inputs: Added support for percent encoding input. Add "percentEncoded": true to input's metadata json and Raycast will make the argument safe for URL queries.
• GitHub: Repository search now include forks when in "My Repositories" mode
• Calendar: Select first upcoming meeting in My Schedule command
• Root Search: Results with aliases set are downranked when the alias is not matched

🐞 Fixes

• Script Commands: Fixed an issue with wrong file extensions for the scaffolding command
• Dictionary: Fixed an issue with wrong preferences being displayed
• GitHub: Fixed pull request detail descriptions not being fully displayed
• Hacker News: Fixed opening links in browser for some cases

📕 Dictionary

With the new Dictionary extension, you can easily get the definition of words and phrases. It supports all sources from the system Dictionary app and additionally checks spelling.

🖼 Window Management

The new Window Management extension lets you move and scale other application windows with ease. Maximize, center or layout windows with a few keystrokes. And assign global hotkeys to perform common ones even quicker.

🤖 Script Commands Improvements

• New Command: Create Script Command will allow you to quickly create script files with all required metadata and permission flags.
• Optional Arguments: You can now specify if an argument is optional. See documentation on how to use optional field.
• Dark Theme Icons Support: You can now use different icons depending on which app theme is selected. Use @raycast.iconDark parameter to specify the icon for dark theme.
• Error Output: We improved the output when a script run fails, and scripts with silent mode now show a HUD toast on error.
• Changed shortcut for copying output of inline scripts to Cmd Shift C to make it consistent with fullOutput mode

💎 Improvements

• File Search: You can now specify multiple folders to search by using in and a list of folders, such as: myfile in ~/downloads ~/projects. Tip: if the folder path contains a space, put the path in quotes ("/folder/path/with a/space")
• Jira: The sorting order for custom JQL filters ("My Filters" list) is not overridden any more
• Calculator: Use system currency as default to allow quicker conversions, f.e. if you have £ as your system currency, you can type $5 and get it directly converted into pounds
• Calculator: Added a new secondary action to copy the unformatted answer
• Search: Now skips quotes and brackets when searching for words
• Navigation: Typing alias + space expands associated command now. E.g. if you assign fs alias to File Search, typing fs + space will automatically go inside File Search command.
• Preferences: Pressing Cmd Q now when preferences window is active only closes the window and doesn't kill the app

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard History: Fixed a bug when copying a clipboard entry failed
• Script Commands: Fixed a bug where a script input field would be focused when it shouldn't
• Script Commands: Fixed a bug where icon and title of scripts with arguments wouldn't change sometimes in the search bar
• Shortcuts: Fixed scrolling for long shortcuts lists in preferences
• Calculator: Fixed using outdated rates for currency conversions
• Fixed a bug where permission windows appeared behind Raycast
• Fixed a bug when the Raycast window wouldn't appear in full screen mode if Raycast preferences window is open

🤖 Arguments for Script Commands

Script Commands are a great way to extend Raycast. We're happy to announce custom arguments for scripts — starting with text inputs. Arguments allow you to go even further with tailoring Raycast to your needs. See our documentation for how to use them.

💡Pro tip: When typing alias + space, Raycast automatically moves focus to the first input field.

🐱 GitHub Repository Search

The new Search Repository command allows to find repositories on GitHub by name or owner. Open repositories in the browser or copy information such as the name or the URL via the Action Panel.

✨ Feature Previews

We added a new tab to the preferences to try out features and changes before they become officially part of the app. We may change those features based on your feedback.

These are the first two feature previews:

• Pop To Root: Define when Raycast should pop to the root search after closing the window
• App Search: Use our custom indexing instead of Spotlight's index

💎 Improvements

• We now prevent the app from silently being terminated by macOS under certain conditions
• Improved searching for localized application and preference names
• Script errors are shown inline in refreshable items

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where no toast was shown when a script command failed to refresh
• Fixed recording keyboard shortcuts with arrow and other special keys
• Fixed an issue when Raycast became unresponsive while launching applications
• Fixed an issue that would make tooltips misaligned in some cases
• Fixed an issue with refreshable scripts not hiding the progress toast on error
• Linear: Fixed an issue that would prevent from creating Linear Issue when using quotes in title
• Asana: Fixed an issue that could cause errors when using Asana integration for some legacy projects
• Clipboard History: Fixed an issue where the list wasn’t reloaded after removing all entries

⚠️ After the update, you have to re-enable the Zoom extension. Sorry for the inconvenience.

✨ New

• Preferences: You can now hide the Raycast icon from the menu bar via the Appearance tab
• Preferences: We’ve added a new shiny About tab
• GitHub: Perform more actions on pull requests and issues — “Add Assignee”, “Request Review”, “Add Project”, and “Set Milestone”

💎 Improvements

• App Search: In addition to their localized display name, apps can now be found via file name
• Calculator: You can now use lowercase "f" and "c" for Fahrenheit / Celsius conversion
• Calculator: Modulo now works for % sign, e.g. 7%4 returns 3
• Clipboard History: Ignore content copied from password managers
• Navigation: Ctrl P and Ctrl N can be used to select the previous or the next item in a list
• Script Commands: Added more actions to refreshable items (Show in Finder, Open with...)
• Improved the speed of showing Raycast window when pressing the hotkey
• Preference commands in the root search got new icons
• Added Internet Access Policy for Little Snitch

🐞 Fixes

• Jira: Fixed a case where the wrong base URL would be used for opening issue details in browser. (If you’re experiencing that issue, please re-login into Jira via extension preferences).
• GitHub: Fixed the “Copy Branch Name” action for pull requests
• Hotkey Recorder: Fixed an issue that would prevent some users from recording some key combination in international keyboard layouts
• Clipboard History: Fixed an issue where clipboard history was still recording when disabled
• Fixed an issue that could've caused a crash in the background and some weird behavior
• Fixed a regression with relative dates in the calculator

Raycast is now available for everyone

We're live! Today, we're making Raycast available for everyone. Thanks for being part of the beta!

🤓 Media: Hacker News

Although Raycast tries to help you being more productive, some procrastination now and then is unavoidable. Consuming relevant news has now become prettier with our built-in Hacker News reader: Quickly scan through the top stories of the front page or switch to the "Show HN" list. You'll see the number of comments for each story and you can easily open the links and detail pages as usual via actions and shortcuts. The command can be enabled via the new Media package in preferences.

💎 Improvements

• Calendar: Links of conference calls in the location field of an event are now properly parsed and you can join these meetings from Raycast as well.

🐞 Fixes

• Root Search: Fixed an issue with numeric searches and ranking.
• Jira: Fixed a bug where token-based fields (components, fix versions) would not correctly update.