Changelog

This release aims to fix a number of instability issues that you have experienced around Raycast crashing and issues with shortcuts going to sleep.

It also includes one other important change where we are moving from an non-encrypted to an encrypted database. This is for an extra layer of security on your data, especially because soon we will ship OAuth for extensions and will need to store your API tokens.

💎 Improvements

• Database encryption keys now survive app uninstalls.
• A local backup of your databases is performed upon upgrading, so you can safely downgrade without loosing your data if something goes wrong.
• Added an 'Exclude from Index' quick action to File Search
• Show in systems tray will now be persisted after restarting Raycast
• Added confirmation dialogs for Shutdown and Restart commands
• Localised names are now used for applications
• Exe files will now launch through Raycast
• Apps can also be minimised with the hotkey
• Added experimental support to open files with Files and OneCommander, if set as your default file manager.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed Raycast crashing in the background due to our Clipboard History implementation
• Fixed Raycast hotkeys going to sleep
• Fixed database corruption issues.
• Removed system settings links from appearing in file search results

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed a logging issue that caused too many events to be logged

Following snippets, we’re now releasing the first iteration of Quicklinks: a powerful way to save time by storing frequently accessed links!

In this release, you can:

• Create and save Quicklinks for URLs and deeplinks
• Open Quicklinks from the root search
• Search your Quicklinks
• Assign shortcuts to your Quicklinks

We will continue iterating on this, and in future releases, we’ll be adding support for pinned Quicklinks, creating directory links, opening Quicklinks with different apps, categories, and improved organization features.

✨ New

• You can now access the info panel of a file in root search through a new quick action 'Show Details in File Search'
• Added a 'Open in Browser' quick action to links in Clipboard History
• Added support for shortcuts that use URI handlers. This enables your Steam applications to be launched through Raycast.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard history entries get deduplicated from now on, so that when you copy the same content multiple times, it only appears once in your history. Deduplication only applies to new entries.
• Copied files that are images now show up in the images category in clipboard history in addition to the files category
• Tweaked the emoji search to return more results
• Quick Open will not appear if there is a space in the search term. This is to prevent it appearing for search queries.
• Updated our in app social links

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where toggling the info panel on or off wouldn’t be remembered
• Fixed an issue where pressing a hotkey wouldn’t move the active window to the right display
• Fixed an issue where Raycast would open randomly without using the hotkey or clicking the icon
• Fixed Delete Snippet shortcut to be Ctrl + Delete instead of Ctrl + Shift + Delete
• Fixed the UX of very long toast messages

The first iteration of Snippets is here! Snippets are a powerful way to save time by storing frequently used text.

In this release of Snippets, you can:

• Create plain text snippets
• Copy snippets or paste them to the frontmost application
• Pin your most used snippets

In future releases, we’ll be adding rich-text support, a better way to organize your snippets and keyword-based snippet expansion.

✨ New

• You can now customise the Emoji Picker’s columns, primary action, and skin tone through the Emoji & Symbols settings
• There is now a new Quick Open command that opens any URL passed to root search
• There are new system commands for controlling audio playback

💎 Improvements

• You can now assign a hotkey to any command, not just applications
• For files that appear in root search, there is now an action to view details in file search
• You can now find a Check For Updates button inside About settings
• There is now a new setting for how long Clipboard History is kept for
• Right clicking a list item will now open the action panel
• Open left action panel using ctrl shift K in root search

🐞 Fixes

• General improvements to application discovery
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the Settings menu item would be stuck in an inactive state
• The calculator now doesn’t react to small short keywords like “mon”, “tue”, etc.

Today we are releasing the first iteration of our Emoji Picker 🎉 to help you express yourself quickly and easily!

In this first version you will be able to:

• Pick your favourite emoji and copy or paste it to the frontmost application
• Pin your most used emojis to the top
• Easily choose from automatically suggested emojis based on your usage
• Provide your own custom keywords to find an emoji more easily

In the next release, we will be adding some Emoji Picker settings (grid size, preferred skin tone, etc) as well as support for adding hotkeys to commands, so there is more to look forward to this in the coming week(s)!

💎 Improvements

• Added support for images and files (single & multiple) in Clipboard History
• Improved the visibility of our main window in light mode
• The email field in the Send Feedback Command is being pre-populated
• The settings window can be discarded by pressing the escape key
• Raycast now opens on the display that contains the mouse pointer and remembers the window location on each display

🐞 Fixes

• Text containing an email address (amongst other things) is now correctly stored as text
• Raycast should now consistently open on your active monitor
• When deleting a file, the window stays focused
• Alias set for the Emoji Picker should now be correctly saved