WEBVTT - Raycast is a Must in 2025 - The Future of Productivity? 0:00:16.887 --> 0:00:18.927 Hey what's up? So every year towards the end of 0:00:18.927 --> 0:00:21.387 the year, I start thinking about how I can optimize 0:00:21.387 --> 0:00:28.167 my environment. So basically tools, techniques, processes, notes, whatever. And 0:00:28.167 --> 0:00:32.067 this year was no different the end of 2024. And 0:00:32.067 --> 0:00:34.917 this time I went crazy, though I went absolutely crazy. 0:00:34.917 --> 0:00:38.397 I started optimizing everything. I ended up spending like over 40, 0:00:38.427 --> 0:00:40.407 60 hours. I didn't even keep track, but it was 0:00:40.406 --> 0:00:45.597 like probably over 60 hours of customizing, like everything. And 0:00:45.627 --> 0:00:48.807 ultimately the thing that came back to be the centerpiece 0:00:48.807 --> 0:00:52.497 was this tool called raycast. So I'm going to jump 0:00:52.497 --> 0:00:56.487 into that. Okay. So here we are over here on 0:00:56.487 --> 0:00:59.967 the raycast website. It's raycast comm. And you see that 0:00:59.967 --> 0:01:02.937 I'm talking about your shortcut to everything. They actually had 0:01:02.937 --> 0:01:05.697 another tagline I think I liked better which was action 0:01:05.697 --> 0:01:08.277 at the speed of thought. And this is going to 0:01:08.277 --> 0:01:11.277 be a theme that you're going to see throughout this 0:01:11.277 --> 0:01:13.917 entire video. And this is the reason that I am 0:01:13.917 --> 0:01:17.517 so excited about this. Essentially, if you are on macOS 0:01:17.517 --> 0:01:20.487 and you are not using raycast, I'm telling you you 0:01:20.517 --> 0:01:25.197 are at a tiny fraction of your possible productivity. It 0:01:25.197 --> 0:01:28.197 is that important. If you've been watching any of the 0:01:28.197 --> 0:01:31.017 stuff I've been talking about with AI, the whole concept 0:01:31.017 --> 0:01:33.387 that I've been harping on and pushing on for all 0:01:33.387 --> 0:01:37.227 this time since like whatever the end of 2022 is, 0:01:37.227 --> 0:01:39.387 it's not about the tools that you use. It's not 0:01:39.387 --> 0:01:42.627 about the technology and how powerful it is. The real 0:01:42.627 --> 0:01:45.537 question is, as you go through regular life and you're 0:01:45.537 --> 0:01:49.077 trying to actually accomplish things, how quickly can you take 0:01:49.077 --> 0:01:52.527 your current problem that just popped into your head and 0:01:52.527 --> 0:01:56.577 bring that problem to a particular technology or a particular tool, 0:01:56.577 --> 0:02:00.297 and then get the answer back and reincorporate that into 0:02:00.297 --> 0:02:02.727 your life in whatever you were doing at that moment. 0:02:02.757 --> 0:02:07.107 That is the most important thing for tech integration. We 0:02:07.107 --> 0:02:09.597 have an integration problem with tech. We don't have a 0:02:09.597 --> 0:02:13.947 capability problem. This is especially true with AI. And AI 0:02:13.977 --> 0:02:16.437 is what I'm going to demo Last but what I'm 0:02:16.436 --> 0:02:20.097 going to do first is show you a whole series 0:02:20.097 --> 0:02:22.707 of a few of the main use cases that I 0:02:22.707 --> 0:02:26.517 use raycast for, and why I think it's so powerful. 0:02:26.547 --> 0:02:29.186 All right. So the first thing is what are we 0:02:29.186 --> 0:02:32.517 talking about here at the very base level like level 0:02:32.547 --> 0:02:35.486 zero for this tool is it is a launcher. So 0:02:35.487 --> 0:02:38.276 you've used spotlight before. Again we're talking about Mac OS 0:02:38.276 --> 0:02:41.607 centric here. You've used spotlight before. A lot of people, 0:02:41.607 --> 0:02:44.876 including myself, used Alfred for a very long time. And 0:02:44.876 --> 0:02:48.447 this is essentially a successor to Alfred. It's it's just 0:02:48.447 --> 0:02:52.976 better in every way. But mad respect to Alfred. It's 0:02:52.977 --> 0:02:55.556 still got me through a lot of stuff and it 0:02:55.556 --> 0:02:58.677 was very good for the time. So first thing is 0:02:58.677 --> 0:03:02.067 just launching, right. So we're going to launch something. You 0:03:02.066 --> 0:03:04.317 can launch an app, you could launch notes, you could 0:03:04.316 --> 0:03:08.006 launch calendar, you could launch whatever. So that's the same 0:03:08.006 --> 0:03:10.407 as with spotlight. That's the same as with Alfred. It's 0:03:10.406 --> 0:03:14.986 just a launcher. Now Quick links is the next level. 0:03:14.987 --> 0:03:18.767 Next level. And this is my hierarchy here. But I 0:03:18.767 --> 0:03:21.737 would say that next level is quick links. And quick 0:03:21.767 --> 0:03:25.337 links allows you to do more than just launch. You 0:03:25.337 --> 0:03:28.906 can actually launch and configure at the same time. It's 0:03:28.906 --> 0:03:32.986 basically like a better launcher. So if I open up 0:03:33.017 --> 0:03:36.857 extensions actually, and I go to and I just scroll 0:03:36.887 --> 0:03:39.197 down and I'm going to look for a quick links, 0:03:39.467 --> 0:03:41.537 we're going to take a look at different things that 0:03:41.537 --> 0:03:45.437 I've set up with quick links okay. So here's quick 0:03:45.467 --> 0:03:50.087 links here. And here's a good example. So I influence level. 0:03:50.087 --> 0:03:52.606 This is a post that people ask about a lot 0:03:52.607 --> 0:03:55.487 or I want to just reference and I can't remember it. 0:03:55.517 --> 0:03:59.327 Quick links has basically replaced bookmarks for me. I don't 0:03:59.327 --> 0:04:02.597 use bookmarks anymore. I actually haven't used them very often 0:04:02.597 --> 0:04:05.327 in like the last few years. I just it doesn't 0:04:05.327 --> 0:04:08.297 occur to me to go up to manage bookmarks, scroll 0:04:08.297 --> 0:04:11.327 over and start looking for something that is not efficient 0:04:11.327 --> 0:04:14.557 at all whatsoever. So what I've done is taken anything 0:04:14.557 --> 0:04:17.977 that I would have put into bookmarks, and I now 0:04:17.977 --> 0:04:22.867 have that inside of individual quick links that I know 0:04:22.867 --> 0:04:25.567 that I go to often. So for example this I 0:04:25.567 --> 0:04:30.217 influence level post, I influence boom, I didn't even type 0:04:30.217 --> 0:04:31.957 all of it. I just typed like a little bit 0:04:31.957 --> 0:04:35.377 of it. Right. And this thing pops up so cool. Um, 0:04:35.377 --> 0:04:38.347 but what else do we have in there? Uh, extensions. 0:04:38.497 --> 0:04:42.037 So I people so this is like I people that 0:04:42.037 --> 0:04:45.397 I follow on AP. Yeah. I don't even have to 0:04:45.427 --> 0:04:48.787 type all of it. This thing, I'm telling you, it 0:04:48.787 --> 0:04:51.666 reads your mind. It reads your mind. If you start 0:04:51.697 --> 0:04:55.297 typing a thing once again, go back to the concept 0:04:55.297 --> 0:04:59.166 of action at the speed of thought. Just think of 0:04:59.167 --> 0:05:02.647 the thing and start typing. And then you're going to 0:05:02.647 --> 0:05:05.407 be able to press enter. The more you trust the tool, 0:05:05.407 --> 0:05:08.377 the better the tool gets. And we're just going to 0:05:08.377 --> 0:05:10.567 go deeper and deeper levels until we get to the 0:05:10.567 --> 0:05:14.417 final piece, which is the eye piece, which is absolutely insane. 0:05:14.417 --> 0:05:17.117 It's my new eye workflow, but we'll save that to 0:05:17.147 --> 0:05:19.937 the end. So here's a bunch of eye people. This 0:05:19.937 --> 0:05:23.237 is like an eye list that I put together, so 0:05:23.237 --> 0:05:25.637 if I want to look at what I people are 0:05:25.637 --> 0:05:32.717 talking about I type this. So I people um, extensions. 0:05:33.107 --> 0:05:35.747 All right. Let's say I want to check Amazon orders. 0:05:35.747 --> 0:05:40.037 So Amazon orders. Oh look this is like the different 0:05:40.037 --> 0:05:43.247 things I've ordered recently. Nothing too embarrassing I think the 0:05:43.247 --> 0:05:48.077 editing team checked that out beforehand. All right. I actually 0:05:48.077 --> 0:05:50.597 had to rerecord this bit because while I was showing 0:05:50.597 --> 0:05:54.106 off a couple of features, I actually clicked on some 0:05:54.107 --> 0:05:58.247 crazy drum and bass EDM and it was like super 0:05:58.247 --> 0:06:00.557 loud and it went over the whole thing. You might 0:06:00.587 --> 0:06:02.867 have saw that version, but basically this is a cleanup 0:06:02.867 --> 0:06:05.537 of that. But what I want to talk about now 0:06:05.537 --> 0:06:10.067 is extensions. So if I do extensions and I open 0:06:10.067 --> 0:06:12.577 this up, this is essentially all the stuff that you 0:06:12.577 --> 0:06:15.967 have access to within raycast. And there's a whole store 0:06:15.967 --> 0:06:18.967 for this, right? So if you go to the plus 0:06:18.967 --> 0:06:21.997 and say install from store, this is where you can 0:06:21.997 --> 0:06:25.777 install like all the different things. So this is basically 0:06:25.777 --> 0:06:29.017 how you get new functionality into the tool. So essentially 0:06:29.017 --> 0:06:31.237 what I did when I did my whole refresh of 0:06:31.237 --> 0:06:33.847 my tech stack was I basically figured out all the 0:06:33.847 --> 0:06:36.726 different stuff that I was using separate tools for, and 0:06:36.727 --> 0:06:41.137 I looked for analogs or like improvements of those inside 0:06:41.137 --> 0:06:45.697 of the raycast store. And the vast majority I found 0:06:45.697 --> 0:06:48.427 something as good or better, but if we just look 0:06:48.427 --> 0:06:54.127 through mine. So Apple notes um bru. So this you basically, um, 0:06:54.127 --> 0:07:00.607 clean up search, show anything you have installed with homebrew, calculator, calendar, clipboard, history, 0:07:00.637 --> 0:07:04.147 color picker, color picker is kind of cool. Pick color. 0:07:04.147 --> 0:07:08.467 And this basically boom. And now that color is, uh, 0:07:08.467 --> 0:07:11.157 copied into my clipboard. so now I can just paste 0:07:11.157 --> 0:07:14.877 that somewhere else in the hex format. Developer. That's for 0:07:14.907 --> 0:07:19.077 like creating extensions. You could control all your Docker images. 0:07:19.107 --> 0:07:22.137 Dungeons and Dragons you could do like. Yeah, you could 0:07:22.137 --> 0:07:25.467 see everything about your different monsters or whatever. I installed 0:07:25.467 --> 0:07:27.087 that because I have a game on Friday which is 0:07:27.087 --> 0:07:31.737 actually today. So game night tonight with the friends, uh, GitHub, 0:07:31.767 --> 0:07:35.187 Google Workspace home assistant. So you can do all sorts 0:07:35.187 --> 0:07:38.097 of stuff with your home menu bar calendar. This is 0:07:38.097 --> 0:07:41.607 a thing, um, that I talked about or will talk 0:07:41.637 --> 0:07:44.517 about up here in the top right in the menu bar. 0:07:44.547 --> 0:07:47.427 Olama I so basically all the different AI stuff that 0:07:47.427 --> 0:07:49.197 we're going to talk about, you could also do with 0:07:49.197 --> 0:07:52.647 local models with Olama, uh, pick your wallpaper. You can 0:07:52.647 --> 0:07:56.247 control wallpaper there. Quick links. We talked about that one. Um, 0:07:56.247 --> 0:07:59.457 lots of different raycast things independently. Look at this. This 0:07:59.457 --> 0:08:02.727 is all my bookmarks. So I could search my bookmarks. 0:08:02.727 --> 0:08:06.447 I can add a bookmark. Again, I'm not using bookmarks 0:08:06.447 --> 0:08:10.357 in Arc anymore Uh, because I just I haven't used 0:08:10.357 --> 0:08:13.327 browser based bookmarks in so long. Like, I would just 0:08:13.327 --> 0:08:15.727 put everything into a queue and I would never go 0:08:15.727 --> 0:08:17.977 back to it. Well, what I could do now is 0:08:17.977 --> 0:08:21.907 store it in Drop.io, which right now to me is 0:08:21.907 --> 0:08:27.397 the best bookmark like manager or database. But the whole 0:08:27.397 --> 0:08:30.757 point of bookmarks is you can never find this stuff, right? 0:08:30.757 --> 0:08:33.516 So again, this is the interface to that. This is 0:08:33.516 --> 0:08:37.207 the way you get into it. Um, wanted to show 0:08:37.207 --> 0:08:40.537 just a couple of more things around. Quick links. Real 0:08:40.537 --> 0:08:44.347 quick side tangent here. So I have a time server. 0:08:45.217 --> 0:08:47.677 All right. So essentially what I'm showing here is this 0:08:47.677 --> 0:08:50.437 is my own internal time server. This is a stratum 0:08:50.437 --> 0:08:54.306 one time server. Which means I'm not talking to some 0:08:54.307 --> 0:08:57.487 other time server that's talking to a time server that 0:08:57.487 --> 0:09:01.896 has really good time. I am talking directly to the satellites. 0:09:01.896 --> 0:09:04.747 I have a thing in my attic is picking up 0:09:04.747 --> 0:09:11.816 really good signal. Look at this 30. Signal to noise ratio. 30dB. 0:09:12.026 --> 0:09:16.436 This is really, really high quality signal. And I've seen 0:09:16.437 --> 0:09:20.066 27 satellites and I'm currently using 14. And I have 0:09:20.067 --> 0:09:26.487 a 3D fix, which means, uh, both, uh, forward sideways 0:09:26.487 --> 0:09:30.087 and up and down. Right. So x, y and Z. 0:09:30.117 --> 0:09:33.957 Basically it's three dimensions, right. So you need a certain 0:09:33.957 --> 0:09:37.016 amount of fix before you can actually get a 3D fix. 0:09:37.016 --> 0:09:41.517 And if you look at my, um, well, you can 0:09:41.516 --> 0:09:43.797 actually see him because I have him blurred out. But 0:09:43.827 --> 0:09:47.127 if you look at my accuracies, it's within like eight 0:09:47.127 --> 0:09:50.936 feet for these things. So it's specifically where on the 0:09:50.937 --> 0:09:54.026 planet I am sitting in this chair. And the point 0:09:54.026 --> 0:09:57.447 is that I set up this DNS inside of my 0:09:57.447 --> 0:10:00.926 networking system so I could just instantly go there, right? 0:10:00.926 --> 0:10:03.747 But look, I've also got this other one called shake, 0:10:03.747 --> 0:10:08.267 and this one is actually my earthquake data. So this 0:10:08.266 --> 0:10:12.437 is basically shakes that have happened inside of where I 0:10:12.437 --> 0:10:15.526 have this device. So I can go and find earthquakes 0:10:15.526 --> 0:10:17.627 when they happen, or if I happen to stomp or 0:10:17.627 --> 0:10:20.357 drop weights or something right next to where this thing is. 0:10:20.477 --> 0:10:23.266 But just a couple more things that I have, like 0:10:23.266 --> 0:10:26.266 inside of quick links. The whole point here is you 0:10:26.266 --> 0:10:28.847 don't want to be thinking about what you are doing. 0:10:28.847 --> 0:10:32.087 You want to be just executing it. Right? And that 0:10:32.087 --> 0:10:37.367 takes us squarely into this next topic, which is quick searches. 0:10:37.367 --> 0:10:41.386 So quick searches are a thing that lots of browsers 0:10:41.386 --> 0:10:45.737 have had before. And I've done infinite configuration of this 0:10:45.737 --> 0:10:50.057 from like probably 8 or 10 different browsers over the years. 0:10:50.057 --> 0:10:53.477 So it's basically when you do a command L, you're 0:10:53.477 --> 0:10:56.807 able to put like an A in front of something, 0:10:56.807 --> 0:11:00.076 and then that A can become like an Amazon and 0:11:00.077 --> 0:11:02.837 then you type something and then you're now searching Amazon. 0:11:02.837 --> 0:11:06.266 And that was all built inside of the browser. I 0:11:06.266 --> 0:11:09.776 don't like that though, because browsers change. I might change 0:11:09.776 --> 0:11:13.646 browsers myself and switch to a different one. I would 0:11:13.646 --> 0:11:15.987 rather have it be universal. So what I could do 0:11:15.987 --> 0:11:21.206 is I could do a space um, time server, and 0:11:21.207 --> 0:11:24.416 I now just searched Amazon for time server. If I 0:11:24.416 --> 0:11:29.487 do G space time server, I am now doing a 0:11:29.487 --> 0:11:34.797 Google search for time server. If I do p time server, 0:11:34.827 --> 0:11:38.367 you probably guess what that's going to do. Perplexity. Okay, 0:11:38.396 --> 0:11:44.907 so Amazon perplexity Google. And the default is actually this one. 0:11:44.906 --> 0:11:48.056 So watch this. This is amazing. And this is going 0:11:48.087 --> 0:11:50.907 to tease into the AI part which we're going to 0:11:50.906 --> 0:11:54.177 talk about later. But look at this. If I do 0:11:54.207 --> 0:12:00.087 time server I didn't type any prefix because the more 0:12:00.087 --> 0:12:03.926 important the task is that you are doing, the more 0:12:03.926 --> 0:12:08.297 you want to have it involve fewer steps. Okay. You 0:12:08.296 --> 0:12:10.906 want to have as few steps as possible. Okay. So 0:12:10.906 --> 0:12:15.647 if I type time space server, that's going to look 0:12:15.646 --> 0:12:20.176 what it popped up. The default is to search with Google. 0:12:20.207 --> 0:12:23.567 So without me typing a G because that's one extra step. 0:12:23.567 --> 0:12:26.717 And more importantly, it's one extra friction step inside my 0:12:26.717 --> 0:12:29.807 brain of like thinking that I want to search Google. 0:12:29.807 --> 0:12:33.436 My default is to search Google. I tried perplexity for 0:12:33.437 --> 0:12:36.196 a while. I switched back to Google. Google seems to 0:12:36.197 --> 0:12:39.017 be catching up with some of the AI summarization stuff. 0:12:39.166 --> 0:12:41.747 I don't know. I'm on the I'm on the fence. 0:12:41.747 --> 0:12:44.747 It's like half and half for me. But anyway, the 0:12:44.747 --> 0:12:48.016 bottom line is the most important thing that you do. 0:12:48.046 --> 0:12:52.337 You want to be more default with fewer steps interrupting you. 0:12:52.337 --> 0:12:57.166 So time server press enter with my pinky. And now 0:12:57.166 --> 0:13:01.367 I am searching Google. But watch this. Actually I'm not. 0:13:01.396 --> 0:13:03.256 I'm not even going to show you. I'm not even 0:13:03.276 --> 0:13:05.677 going to show you this part, because that's a teaser 0:13:05.676 --> 0:13:08.766 for the AI part, which comes next or comes a 0:13:08.766 --> 0:13:11.167 little bit later. All right. So the point of all 0:13:11.166 --> 0:13:14.497 of this. Okay, I'm going to keep hitting this because 0:13:14.497 --> 0:13:17.497 this is like the most important concept here. We're talking 0:13:17.497 --> 0:13:22.057 about friction reduction. We're talking about Neuralink. Okay. When you 0:13:22.057 --> 0:13:24.367 first get these tools you have to go to their 0:13:24.367 --> 0:13:28.237 independent places. There's no possible way to like invoke them 0:13:28.237 --> 0:13:32.856 in a central way. Um, you know, like within a 0:13:32.857 --> 0:13:36.727 browser or something. So they're all disparate websites or disparate tools. 0:13:36.727 --> 0:13:39.576 You have to go individually, pull them up, then maybe 0:13:39.607 --> 0:13:41.947 it gets a little bit easier with something like spotlight, 0:13:41.947 --> 0:13:44.646 because you could at least like pull up an invoker 0:13:44.646 --> 0:13:48.577 to call the thing, but you can't really access specific 0:13:48.577 --> 0:13:51.156 functions of it. The point is, you have a lot 0:13:51.187 --> 0:13:54.276 of thinking to do, and that thinking is friction. I 0:13:54.276 --> 0:13:58.086 do not want friction. Now, the ultimate version of this, 0:13:58.207 --> 0:14:01.987 which is so obvious for everyone, it's not like a secret. 0:14:02.026 --> 0:14:04.906 The ultimate version of this is you literally think, and 0:14:04.906 --> 0:14:08.357 it literally happens. And that's like what some people are 0:14:08.357 --> 0:14:11.687 working on. Ellen's working on with like Neuralink and stuff 0:14:11.687 --> 0:14:14.957 like that. So it's literally taking what you're thinking. You're 0:14:14.957 --> 0:14:20.027 not moving a muscle and it's going and it's happening. Okay. Well, 0:14:20.027 --> 0:14:22.306 we already know that's the ultimate goal and is pretty 0:14:22.337 --> 0:14:25.727 far away. So what I like to do just in 0:14:25.727 --> 0:14:28.607 life and just in productivity and in programming and in 0:14:28.607 --> 0:14:31.907 coding and projects and everything is I think about what 0:14:31.907 --> 0:14:35.956 the ultimate is. And then I work backwards to like, okay, 0:14:35.987 --> 0:14:37.757 I don't want to be way over here on the 0:14:37.757 --> 0:14:41.056 left grasping at like, oh, maybe I could do this, 0:14:41.057 --> 0:14:42.857 or maybe I could do that, maybe I could do this. 0:14:42.857 --> 0:14:45.377 What I do is I start with the ultimate, and 0:14:45.377 --> 0:14:47.417 I work backwards and see how close I can get 0:14:47.417 --> 0:14:51.197 to it. Okay, that is why raycast is exciting to 0:14:51.227 --> 0:14:55.336 me because it is an early prototype. It is a 0:14:55.337 --> 0:14:58.667 closer version to the best thing that we're ever going 0:14:58.667 --> 0:15:01.897 to have, which is instant thought and in action, right? 0:15:01.927 --> 0:15:06.127 That's why I love the Ray cast motto of action 0:15:06.127 --> 0:15:08.347 at the speed of thought. And that's why I think 0:15:08.347 --> 0:15:11.767 it's the best motto that they've actually had right action 0:15:11.767 --> 0:15:14.827 at the speed of thought. So that's what you do 0:15:14.857 --> 0:15:17.737 when you invoke, like this. You're popping this thing up 0:15:17.737 --> 0:15:21.307 and you're just typing according to what you're thinking, and 0:15:21.307 --> 0:15:25.537 that is pretty damn close. Uh, moving in the direction 0:15:25.537 --> 0:15:29.556 of Neuralink. And that's why I'm so excited about it. Okay, 0:15:29.587 --> 0:15:33.247 so like we were talking about search snippets, so snip 0:15:33.277 --> 0:15:37.267 again watch this ssn e. But what am I typing? 0:15:37.267 --> 0:15:40.297 Who even knows? I'm thinking I'm trying to record as well, 0:15:40.297 --> 0:15:45.397 but like SS and E look there. SS and ni 0:15:45.397 --> 0:15:48.787 are all in search snippets. Once again the thing reads 0:15:48.787 --> 0:15:51.547 your mind. It knows what you're thinking of. So search snippets. 0:15:51.547 --> 0:15:54.487 This bottom note happens to be one that I made recently. 0:15:54.487 --> 0:15:56.436 That's how we did the whole workflow I just did 0:15:56.437 --> 0:15:59.137 a second ago. But I could do that with callout 0:15:59.167 --> 0:16:02.487 caption Google API key. You got to be careful with these. 0:16:02.517 --> 0:16:05.397 You got to watch out. You need to keep in 0:16:05.397 --> 0:16:07.827 mind what you're actually storing in here. I don't store 0:16:07.827 --> 0:16:10.677 any passwords in here. And actually they have a defense 0:16:10.677 --> 0:16:13.227 that kind of makes sure you're not storing things that 0:16:13.227 --> 0:16:17.127 are too sensitive. But just keep in mind. But the 0:16:17.127 --> 0:16:21.417 point is, all of these different snippets are now available 0:16:21.417 --> 0:16:25.467 to me to invoke via raycast, as opposed to using 0:16:25.467 --> 0:16:29.067 yet another third party app. So that's really cool. You 0:16:29.067 --> 0:16:35.487 can add them very quickly. Um, c n I okay, 0:16:35.517 --> 0:16:39.777 c s actually create snippet again, it figures out what 0:16:39.777 --> 0:16:41.547 you're trying to do. So if I want to just 0:16:41.547 --> 0:16:44.847 press enter I can make a new snippet okay. So 0:16:44.847 --> 0:16:47.127 that's that's how snippets work. Next thing I want to 0:16:47.127 --> 0:16:53.997 talk about is actually screenshots. Okay. Screenshots. Super super cool. 0:16:53.997 --> 0:16:57.087 This is like one of the most powerful things you 0:16:57.087 --> 0:17:02.017 could do with raycast and people who love screenshots are 0:17:02.047 --> 0:17:05.226 going to love this like you cannot believe. All right, 0:17:05.257 --> 0:17:08.077 so watch this. I'm going to take a screenshot with 0:17:08.287 --> 0:17:10.957 boom boom boom. I think it's shift command four if 0:17:10.957 --> 0:17:13.716 I'm not mistaken. So I'm going to take this screenshot 0:17:13.747 --> 0:17:17.347 pops down here. And then I'm going to go watch this. 0:17:17.377 --> 0:17:22.087 See I could have typed SC either way. And by 0:17:22.087 --> 0:17:23.827 the way I didn't even set up an alias. This 0:17:23.827 --> 0:17:27.097 is just figuring it out by itself. Search screenshots I'm 0:17:27.097 --> 0:17:30.097 going to press enter. Watch this. Whoa. It just pulled 0:17:30.097 --> 0:17:35.947 it up. Text. Whoa I just typed text. Guess what? 0:17:35.976 --> 0:17:41.946 Guess what? Watch. This raycast is doing OCR on the content. 0:17:41.946 --> 0:17:46.507 It knows if there's text in the screenshot. Okay, I 0:17:46.507 --> 0:17:50.737 actually have something else that's like crazy cool, which is 0:17:50.767 --> 0:17:54.367 a whole separate talk show. But look what I got 0:17:54.367 --> 0:17:58.047 set up. I've got a thing that actually identifies what's 0:17:58.047 --> 0:18:03.266 in the screenshot and it renames the screenshot. And I 0:18:03.267 --> 0:18:06.387 actually talk about this in the in the full video. 0:18:06.387 --> 0:18:09.327 I talked about it earlier, but anyway this is not required. 0:18:09.327 --> 0:18:12.477 It's unrelated to what raycast is doing, but I just 0:18:12.747 --> 0:18:14.607 thought I would mention that because it's kind of cool. 0:18:14.607 --> 0:18:20.277 So again see search screenshots. This one is actually recent. 0:18:20.277 --> 0:18:24.746 So um, let me just type construction. Look at that construction. 0:18:24.747 --> 0:18:27.236 It finds the construction. This is actually a picture of 0:18:27.236 --> 0:18:30.956 my house being built a long time ago, 2021. But, um, 0:18:31.196 --> 0:18:35.007 it figures out construction. I wonder if it would find would. Look. 0:18:35.037 --> 0:18:37.917 That's ridiculous. How many screenshots do you take? All the 0:18:37.917 --> 0:18:41.246 time and you can't find them? This is integrated right in. 0:18:41.277 --> 0:18:43.887 This is not a third party tool. This is built 0:18:43.917 --> 0:18:47.696 right in. I'm telling you, if you get your utilities 0:18:47.696 --> 0:18:52.617 into this system for 2025, you're going to be flying 0:18:52.647 --> 0:18:54.927 around your operating system. That's what I'm doing now. I'm 0:18:54.927 --> 0:18:58.966 just like thinking stuff happens and I haven't even told 0:18:58.966 --> 0:19:01.367 you the coolest one yet, which is the I one. 0:19:01.397 --> 0:19:03.436 All right, for the next one, I want to actually 0:19:03.436 --> 0:19:06.827 talk about my menu bar and I'm using a utility. 0:19:06.827 --> 0:19:10.696 I can't remember if this is fully integrated with raycast, 0:19:10.696 --> 0:19:12.827 or if it's just like a third party utility that 0:19:12.827 --> 0:19:15.887 somebody was talking about. Um, it was one of the 0:19:15.887 --> 0:19:19.007 interviews from the raycast show. In fact, let me just 0:19:19.007 --> 0:19:23.087 go over there to uh, raycast, which I should make 0:19:23.087 --> 0:19:26.357 a quick link for that. But anyway, um, let's see 0:19:26.357 --> 0:19:31.006 if they have like a link to their YouTube. All right. 0:19:31.007 --> 0:19:33.017 Another piece of functionality I want to show you is 0:19:33.017 --> 0:19:36.677 actually searching videos. So something just made me think of 0:19:36.677 --> 0:19:40.186 the main guy doing all the videos for raycast. His 0:19:40.186 --> 0:19:43.276 name is Pedro and this is actually his website. He's 0:19:43.277 --> 0:19:46.157 like super cool. I love all the videos. I love 0:19:46.157 --> 0:19:48.767 the way he presents all the information and I feel 0:19:48.767 --> 0:19:51.407 like they made a good choice because he actually gets 0:19:51.407 --> 0:19:54.796 why raycast is so important, which would make sense. Why 0:19:54.797 --> 0:19:57.447 he's in charge of running the YouTube channel. I'm not 0:19:57.446 --> 0:20:00.597 sure what he officially does, but he's the the face 0:20:00.597 --> 0:20:02.966 that I see the most from the videos over there. 0:20:02.997 --> 0:20:05.546 But anyway, here's his website. And by the way, the 0:20:05.547 --> 0:20:09.687 website is like completely sick and behind this blurred out 0:20:09.716 --> 0:20:14.727 text is actually him doing the videos like that is cool. 0:20:14.817 --> 0:20:17.877 And it's not even hitting my GPU or CPU that much, 0:20:18.117 --> 0:20:21.536 which is kind of interesting. But anyway, I want to 0:20:21.537 --> 0:20:25.017 show you just real quick one more extension for actually 0:20:25.017 --> 0:20:29.697 searching videos. So if I do SV search video, look, 0:20:29.696 --> 0:20:32.786 I'm actually searching YouTube for videos. So if I do 0:20:32.817 --> 0:20:39.627 like quick links and raycast, I'm actually searching YouTube videos 0:20:39.627 --> 0:20:45.417 for raycast content about quick links. Okay, so I. And 0:20:45.417 --> 0:20:47.877 there he is right there. That's Pedro. He's the one 0:20:47.877 --> 0:20:50.547 doing all these videos. And here he is talking about 0:20:50.547 --> 0:20:53.397 mastering quick links. And you can listen to him here. 0:20:53.427 --> 0:20:55.847 And today I want to show you how to master them. 0:20:55.847 --> 0:21:00.257 So that is essentially how to search for videos very quickly. 0:21:00.257 --> 0:21:03.977 Again you could do this for anything. Um, so SRV again, 0:21:03.976 --> 0:21:08.897 search videos. Uh mizler fabric and it should pull up 0:21:08.897 --> 0:21:12.647 fabric videos. Yeah. It's got network chuck there. So this 0:21:12.647 --> 0:21:14.537 is a basically a way to find any of your 0:21:14.537 --> 0:21:17.147 own videos. You could find channels. This way you could 0:21:17.147 --> 0:21:19.276 find videos this way you could do like whatever you 0:21:19.277 --> 0:21:22.726 want to do. So again, another interface for searching not 0:21:22.726 --> 0:21:25.966 just web but also videos. Okay. So the next piece 0:21:25.966 --> 0:21:28.127 of functionality I want to talk about is actually my 0:21:28.127 --> 0:21:31.847 menu bar. So my menu bar, it's actually got a 0:21:31.847 --> 0:21:33.977 bunch of functionality in it. So I've got all these 0:21:33.976 --> 0:21:36.257 tools that are up there that are up there. Normally 0:21:36.287 --> 0:21:38.387 you might have to zoom in for this one because 0:21:38.387 --> 0:21:39.857 the menu bar is just kind of small and I 0:21:39.857 --> 0:21:43.037 can't really easily zoom. But I've got this tool called 0:21:43.037 --> 0:21:45.436 Hidden Bar, and this came from one of like the 0:21:45.436 --> 0:21:48.107 100 videos that I watched about raycast. Some of these 0:21:48.107 --> 0:21:51.047 tools are separate, and they just kind of integrate with 0:21:51.047 --> 0:21:54.497 raycast and go into the menu bar, and other times 0:21:54.497 --> 0:21:58.517 they're just kind of like unrelated. But anyway, hidden bar 0:21:58.547 --> 0:22:01.457 or hidden menu. I'm not sure exactly what it's called. 0:22:01.486 --> 0:22:05.897 It basically hides and cleans up your menu bar, but 0:22:05.897 --> 0:22:07.546 I'm going to go through step by step. This is 0:22:07.547 --> 0:22:10.216 actually because I'm recording right now. But look at this. 0:22:10.216 --> 0:22:13.246 This is a tool called stats. Stats is kind of 0:22:13.277 --> 0:22:17.417 like a free replacement for stat menus. And it basically 0:22:17.417 --> 0:22:19.847 works the same. It kind of looks the same. It's very, 0:22:19.847 --> 0:22:24.557 very cool. I got you here. One little tidbit for you. 0:22:24.557 --> 0:22:28.726 If you go to Raycast Comm and you look at 0:22:28.726 --> 0:22:31.606 this little background thing, look at this, look at the 0:22:31.607 --> 0:22:36.527 GPU going wild right now. Okay. Yeah. So stepping through 0:22:36.527 --> 0:22:39.137 these different things in the top here I've got CPU, 0:22:39.167 --> 0:22:43.726 I've got GPU, I've got memory, I've got my disk 0:22:43.757 --> 0:22:47.297 and I've got network. And look at this right here. 0:22:47.297 --> 0:22:50.207 This is really cool. So right here it tells me 0:22:50.236 --> 0:22:52.577 what my next meeting is and it tells me how 0:22:52.577 --> 0:22:56.627 long before that happens. And right here it shows me 0:22:56.657 --> 0:22:59.087 what I have as well. But it also gives me 0:22:59.087 --> 0:23:02.477 a calendar view. So this is like mini calendar. This 0:23:02.476 --> 0:23:06.797 is my schedule which is built into raycast. And they're 0:23:06.797 --> 0:23:09.796 all putting those there appropriately. And I basically took a 0:23:09.797 --> 0:23:11.506 bunch of stuff out of the menu that I didn't 0:23:11.507 --> 0:23:14.327 want there and put them there. And this one is 0:23:14.327 --> 0:23:16.997 really cool. This came from a video that Pedro had 0:23:16.997 --> 0:23:19.966 somebody on and they had this. This is the number 0:23:19.966 --> 0:23:22.817 of people that are actively browsing my website like this 0:23:22.817 --> 0:23:26.147 exact second. And I could open that up in fathom, 0:23:26.147 --> 0:23:29.746 which is the Fathom Analytics platform that allows this to happen. 0:23:29.747 --> 0:23:33.467 Then I've got the weather, I've got my notes. This 0:23:33.466 --> 0:23:37.186 is my current focus state, and that's pretty much it. 0:23:37.186 --> 0:23:39.976 So this is like a collapsed version, which is way 0:23:40.007 --> 0:23:44.867 cleaner than that nightmare right there. So menu bar integration 0:23:44.867 --> 0:23:48.647 I'm most excited about this one, which shows me my 0:23:48.647 --> 0:23:51.276 calendar and my schedule for exactly what I have to 0:23:51.277 --> 0:23:54.427 do today, and it's available in one click. And even 0:23:54.427 --> 0:23:56.766 better than a click, it's available as a view. So 0:23:56.767 --> 0:23:58.897 I could look up and see in an hour and 0:23:58.897 --> 0:24:02.377 11 minutes I'm going to talk to Edward. Okay. So 0:24:02.377 --> 0:24:06.187 that was the menu bar. All right. Now I want 0:24:06.216 --> 0:24:08.377 to show you the thing I actually have been wanting 0:24:08.407 --> 0:24:10.297 to show you the whole time, which is the thing 0:24:10.297 --> 0:24:14.887 that has most changed my workflow from all the different changes, 0:24:14.887 --> 0:24:18.247 like hundreds of different changes that I made with my 0:24:18.247 --> 0:24:22.027 toolset and my workflows and my processes, and most importantly, 0:24:22.027 --> 0:24:25.417 raycast of all the different ones. I save the best 0:24:25.417 --> 0:24:29.047 for last and that is AI integration. So I've done 0:24:29.047 --> 0:24:31.716 tons of AI. You've probably seen a bunch of the videos. 0:24:31.716 --> 0:24:34.597 If you haven't, please go check them out. But my 0:24:34.597 --> 0:24:37.507 core concept with AI, as I talked about before, is 0:24:37.507 --> 0:24:40.357 we don't have an AI technology problem. There are a 0:24:40.357 --> 0:24:44.047 million different AI websites. There are a million different AI tools, 0:24:44.047 --> 0:24:47.436 there's a million different AI utilities. And like, what are 0:24:47.436 --> 0:24:49.927 you supposed to do when you have a given problem. 0:24:50.257 --> 0:24:53.887 Which tool are you supposed to use? Which utility? Which website? 0:24:54.397 --> 0:24:57.997 That's the hardest part. Right. You have anthropic. You have OpenAI, 0:24:58.027 --> 0:25:01.507 you have all these different things. And like I said before, 0:25:01.507 --> 0:25:05.257 we don't have a capability problem. We have an integration problem. 0:25:05.257 --> 0:25:09.697 And with AI it's the absolute worst. Integrating the problems 0:25:09.696 --> 0:25:13.357 that you have with the AI that you have is 0:25:13.357 --> 0:25:16.716 the hardest thing. And so my first thing that I 0:25:16.716 --> 0:25:19.177 was thinking of when I started looking at raycast is like, 0:25:19.206 --> 0:25:22.117 how can I get a bunch of my AI stuff 0:25:22.117 --> 0:25:25.117 into there? So real quick, I want to pull up 0:25:25.117 --> 0:25:28.566 this platform that I built called fabric. So if we 0:25:28.567 --> 0:25:31.747 just go to fabric we go to the GitHub. This 0:25:31.747 --> 0:25:35.466 is the repo and this is the project and it's 0:25:35.466 --> 0:25:39.456 pretty cool. I recommend you check it out on its own. Um, 0:25:39.547 --> 0:25:43.717 basically it is a whole bunch of crowdsourced prompts that 0:25:43.716 --> 0:25:47.737 do a whole bunch of stuff, uh, solving particular use cases. 0:25:47.736 --> 0:25:52.757 There's like cybersecurity use cases. There's like life, uh, use cases. 0:25:52.757 --> 0:25:55.907 There's just a million different things that you could do 0:25:55.936 --> 0:26:00.347 inside of fabric. And the center of it is these patterns. Okay. 0:26:00.377 --> 0:26:05.266 These patterns allow you to do like a million different things. 0:26:05.297 --> 0:26:07.157 All right. So let me just go up to the 0:26:07.157 --> 0:26:09.887 patterns here. And if I click on patterns and look 0:26:09.887 --> 0:26:15.976 at this analyze answers, analyze candidates. Analyze paper analyze spiritual text. 0:26:15.976 --> 0:26:19.577 Create better frame like there's a bunch of videos from 0:26:19.577 --> 0:26:22.607 other people. Right. So I would say go check these out. 0:26:22.637 --> 0:26:28.157 These are integrations. These are problems and solutions to specific 0:26:28.157 --> 0:26:31.547 problems that we have in our life. But here's the problem. 0:26:31.547 --> 0:26:36.226 You have this problem. Extract recipe, extract questions, extract video ID. 0:26:36.257 --> 0:26:39.587 You have this thing that you want to do, but 0:26:39.587 --> 0:26:42.077 you're inside of some application. How do you get that 0:26:42.077 --> 0:26:45.917 thing from here to there? Right. So what I like 0:26:45.917 --> 0:26:48.506 to do is I go and I open up fabric 0:26:48.507 --> 0:26:50.726 on the command line because I'm a command line person, 0:26:50.726 --> 0:26:54.087 I like that, but that's not for enough people, right? 0:26:54.117 --> 0:26:56.547 Not enough people use the command line. A very small 0:26:56.547 --> 0:26:59.607 percentage of people are command line first, like I am, right? 0:26:59.637 --> 0:27:02.037 And I understand that. So I'm looking for other ways 0:27:02.037 --> 0:27:04.736 to integrate. And we've done a couple of different things. 0:27:04.736 --> 0:27:08.966 But raycast is the absolute best one. So I'm going 0:27:08.997 --> 0:27:11.816 to show you a couple of ways to integrate these 0:27:11.817 --> 0:27:16.286 patterns inside of raycast. But first we're actually going to 0:27:16.317 --> 0:27:19.436 build up from there. So we're actually going to go 0:27:19.436 --> 0:27:22.587 in order. All right let's just skip all that I'm 0:27:22.587 --> 0:27:26.787 actually just going to do the fabric one separately afterwards. 0:27:26.787 --> 0:27:29.367 Like I said I'm most excited about talking about this 0:27:29.367 --> 0:27:33.686 AI stuff. And here's the actual flow for doing this 0:27:33.716 --> 0:27:36.237 in a smarter way like I was talking about. So 0:27:36.236 --> 0:27:39.147 normally what you do is you do something like, okay, 0:27:39.177 --> 0:27:44.217 you launch clod. Okay, so here's a clod application. You 0:27:44.216 --> 0:27:47.746 can type into clod. You can get your results back. Cool. 0:27:47.747 --> 0:27:50.716 Or you can come over here and you could go 0:27:50.716 --> 0:27:56.747 to cloud Sky and you can get your answers from there. Um. 0:27:56.747 --> 0:28:01.817 That's Claude. I personally prefer, uh, OpenAI, so that would 0:28:01.817 --> 0:28:05.597 be like ChatGPT, but I never go to the website anymore. 0:28:05.627 --> 0:28:08.117 I'm not even logged in. I don't go to the 0:28:08.117 --> 0:28:13.696 website anymore because of raycast, so check this out. I 0:28:13.696 --> 0:28:17.536 told you before in quick searches that I could do 0:28:17.567 --> 0:28:21.887 p space something right and search for it. That's cool. 0:28:21.887 --> 0:28:24.256 And I also told you you could do g space 0:28:24.257 --> 0:28:26.657 and you could search for something on Google. And I 0:28:26.657 --> 0:28:30.317 also told you that if you do just whatever search term, 0:28:30.827 --> 0:28:33.647 you can actually just do it right from the command line. 0:28:33.647 --> 0:28:35.867 And you don't have to do the G, because that 0:28:35.867 --> 0:28:37.816 is your default one that you set to the top. 0:28:37.817 --> 0:28:43.367 So I just did a search on Google by invoking raycast, 0:28:43.397 --> 0:28:47.407 typing the search term and pressing enter so you get 0:28:47.407 --> 0:28:52.447 back whatever. Right. So that is really powerful. All right. 0:28:52.447 --> 0:28:54.847 So I talked about how you could do that quick 0:28:54.847 --> 0:28:57.847 search with Google. Right. So you can just type whatever 0:28:57.847 --> 0:29:01.117 here and it's going to go and search that in Google. 0:29:01.117 --> 0:29:06.247 But what if I could type like I fabric mizler here. 0:29:06.247 --> 0:29:08.467 And instead of pressing enter we know what that would do. 0:29:08.497 --> 0:29:11.737 It would be a Google search. Instead I switch over 0:29:11.737 --> 0:29:15.697 to the option key and I press enter. Guess what 0:29:15.697 --> 0:29:20.407 I just did? I just skipped all those steps of 0:29:20.437 --> 0:29:24.067 going to an AI application, calling up like an actual 0:29:24.097 --> 0:29:28.267 thick client on the computer, or going to a website 0:29:28.267 --> 0:29:34.297 like OpenAI or Claude or Anthropic or whatever, and typing 0:29:34.297 --> 0:29:38.407 into a website, right? So rather than clicking or even 0:29:38.407 --> 0:29:42.337 using raycast to open the website, I'm bypassing that completely 0:29:42.337 --> 0:29:45.857 and just typing it into raycast and instead of pressing 0:29:45.857 --> 0:29:50.567 regular enter, I press. And this is configurable option enter 0:29:50.597 --> 0:29:54.647 and it brings this up. Okay so let me search. 0:29:54.647 --> 0:29:57.617 So let me show you this. Okay. This is insane. 0:29:57.617 --> 0:30:00.887 Look it didn't just give me the LM response. And 0:30:00.887 --> 0:30:03.556 by the way I'm using Claude three five sonnet for this. 0:30:03.557 --> 0:30:06.437 You can configure this to any model that you want 0:30:06.467 --> 0:30:09.887 to use. Sonnet I'm using it seems pretty fast. I 0:30:09.887 --> 0:30:13.217 like it a lot. So it gives me not only 0:30:13.217 --> 0:30:15.857 an LM answer, but look what it did. It gave 0:30:15.857 --> 0:30:19.127 me the GitHub for fabric. It gave me my website 0:30:19.127 --> 0:30:22.127 to talk more about the introduction to fabric and why 0:30:22.127 --> 0:30:26.927 I created it. This is custom raycast built functionality wrapped 0:30:26.927 --> 0:30:30.527 around the AI. Okay, so I could click on these 0:30:30.527 --> 0:30:34.277 links and guess what? It's going to pull up fabric 0:30:34.337 --> 0:30:37.576 the actual um project. It's going to pull up the 0:30:37.577 --> 0:30:44.677 actual project because of those links. So again I fabric Mizler. Alt. Enter. 0:30:44.887 --> 0:30:46.897 It's going to search it up again. It's probably going 0:30:46.927 --> 0:30:49.747 to find similar things or say similar things and find 0:30:49.747 --> 0:30:53.827 the same links. Plus eight. Look at this. It found 0:30:53.827 --> 0:30:57.157 all these links as well. So I've got all these references. 0:30:57.247 --> 0:30:59.586 That is not the crazy part. You want to see 0:30:59.587 --> 0:31:02.137 the crazy part. Watch this. Do you see this right here? 0:31:02.167 --> 0:31:07.267 I got to actually move my mouse command J. Watch this. 0:31:07.267 --> 0:31:13.957 Command J. I just launched into a dedicated AI conversation location. Okay, 0:31:13.987 --> 0:31:18.367 so now I can say I don't get it. What 0:31:18.397 --> 0:31:22.957 does fabric do? Let me search for a clear explanation 0:31:22.957 --> 0:31:25.867 of what fabric does. It's going to go and consume 0:31:25.867 --> 0:31:30.247 this whole web page. Think about it. A collection of 0:31:30.247 --> 0:31:34.296 pre-made AI prompts called patterns that help users get better 0:31:34.297 --> 0:31:38.317 results from AI systems. So again, more links to GitHub 0:31:38.317 --> 0:31:41.287 plus all these different links. And now I can just 0:31:41.287 --> 0:31:45.597 have a dynamic conversation with my AI about the web 0:31:45.627 --> 0:31:47.877 page that I'm on. Okay, so I'm going to go 0:31:47.877 --> 0:31:52.137 back to threshold, which is a different app that I built. Um, 0:31:52.137 --> 0:31:56.787 what is this, uh, incredible conundrum of life's origin? Okay, 0:31:56.817 --> 0:32:00.536 let's go and click on that. Well, that's got a login, 0:32:00.537 --> 0:32:02.637 so let's not click on that one. Okay. This guy 0:32:02.637 --> 0:32:05.127 is really cool. I follow this guy. Well this is 0:32:05.127 --> 0:32:09.777 actually Daring Fireball talking about Simon Willison. But Simon Willison 0:32:09.777 --> 0:32:12.027 is a cool AI guy you should check out. He's 0:32:12.027 --> 0:32:15.777 basically a developer who talks a lot about AI, but 0:32:15.777 --> 0:32:19.827 this is the website. So what is he talking about here? Right? 0:32:19.857 --> 0:32:23.427 What is he actually talking about? Here? Watch this. This 0:32:23.427 --> 0:32:26.877 is absolutely insane. This is the fastest thing you can 0:32:26.907 --> 0:32:33.237 think of some. Oh, I typed three letters, some summarise page. 0:32:33.237 --> 0:32:37.317 This is a custom thing that I wrote, which actually 0:32:37.317 --> 0:32:39.807 brings it down to one sentence. And I'm going to 0:32:39.807 --> 0:32:42.397 show you how to write these in a second. Bring 0:32:42.397 --> 0:32:45.637 it down to one sentence. Models got faster, cheaper with 0:32:45.637 --> 0:32:50.287 better vision. Audio features while running locally became possible. That's 0:32:50.287 --> 0:32:54.247 the one sentence summary. Watch this. This one is actually 0:32:54.247 --> 0:32:59.167 built in to raycast. I summarize web page again. It's 0:32:59.167 --> 0:33:01.807 pulling from the live web page that I'm on and 0:33:01.807 --> 0:33:03.907 it does a full breakdown of the stuff. Okay, I'm 0:33:03.907 --> 0:33:06.097 going to go back to my site because I know 0:33:06.097 --> 0:33:09.997 the content better. This one's called fast versus slow. I 0:33:10.027 --> 0:33:12.697 again I'm on the thing. I'm like, oh, this is 0:33:12.697 --> 0:33:14.857 too long. I don't want to read this. This is lame. 0:33:15.097 --> 0:33:18.397 I got to go to a meeting in 30s sum 0:33:18.427 --> 0:33:21.877 summarize page. What did I actually say here? Fast AI 0:33:21.907 --> 0:33:26.497 helps find content, but slow human processing remains vital for 0:33:26.527 --> 0:33:31.717 meaningful learning and growth. I actually used a fabric pattern 0:33:31.717 --> 0:33:35.647 to make this. Okay, um, I've got another one called 0:33:35.647 --> 0:33:41.367 Extract Wisdom e w extract wisdom. This will extract wisdom 0:33:41.367 --> 0:33:45.387 using a fabric pattern, which is a prompt which will 0:33:45.387 --> 0:33:47.997 pull a summary. The summary is going to be better, 0:33:48.027 --> 0:33:51.957 even maybe than the summarize page one that I wrote. Look, 0:33:51.987 --> 0:33:54.477 pull all the ideas out of it and it just 0:33:54.477 --> 0:33:57.597 keeps going, right? But I could summarize all the different ideas. 0:33:57.597 --> 0:34:00.177 I could get quotes out of it. I could do whatever. 0:34:00.207 --> 0:34:04.527 If there's something that actually talks about predictions, let's go 0:34:04.527 --> 0:34:08.427 to like what's going to have a cool bleeping bleeping 0:34:08.427 --> 0:34:14.096 computer bad signature Subaru Starlink flaw. Okay, here we go. 0:34:14.127 --> 0:34:18.537 Subaru Starlink flaw lets hackers hijacked cars in US and 0:34:18.537 --> 0:34:25.557 Canada extract primary problem. This one is a another fabric 0:34:25.587 --> 0:34:28.887 thing that I wrote, which kind of summarizes what this 0:34:28.887 --> 0:34:32.277 piece of content thinks is the biggest problem. And it's 0:34:32.277 --> 0:34:35.607 a good way of summarizing. In my opinion, connected vehicles 0:34:35.607 --> 0:34:40.787 create dangerous security vulnerabilities that expose private data and physical safety. Cool. 0:34:40.817 --> 0:34:43.487 Makes sense. And you probably could have got that from 0:34:43.487 --> 0:34:46.517 the summary as well. Summarize page. This is probably going 0:34:46.547 --> 0:34:49.577 to talk more about the vulnerability security flaw and Subaru. 0:34:49.607 --> 0:34:54.797 Starlink allowed company vehicle control through license plates affecting US, 0:34:54.797 --> 0:34:58.637 Canada and Japan. Bottom line is I could use any 0:34:58.637 --> 0:35:03.527 of my fabric patterns. So watch this. I go back fabric, 0:35:03.527 --> 0:35:07.157 go to the GitHub project that we created. Go to 0:35:07.157 --> 0:35:11.927 the patterns. I could turn any of these workflows. This 0:35:11.927 --> 0:35:16.277 is like hundreds from hundreds of contributors. All these I 0:35:16.277 --> 0:35:18.917 could turn into instant things that I could do on 0:35:18.917 --> 0:35:23.597 any website, on any block of text. It's just absolutely insane. 0:35:23.597 --> 0:35:29.957 So so this workflow is just unbelievable. I no longer 0:35:29.957 --> 0:35:33.257 have to go to a web page to start doing 0:35:33.287 --> 0:35:36.987 AI stuff. Okay, this is basically my cloud and my I? 0:35:37.017 --> 0:35:41.187 OpenAI all built in, but it's inside of raycast. It's. 0:35:41.217 --> 0:35:45.147 And I don't use those standalone apps anymore. Um, unless 0:35:45.147 --> 0:35:48.777 I'm doing some very specified stuff, like in the playground 0:35:48.777 --> 0:35:53.637 for the different platforms when I'm building my own AI workflows. 0:35:53.637 --> 0:35:55.947 But in terms of like day to day use, day 0:35:55.947 --> 0:35:59.487 to day workflows, I am not using anything except for raycast. 0:35:59.487 --> 0:36:04.737 That is how good they have made this right. So again, 0:36:04.767 --> 0:36:09.357 the number one workflow is I'm searching the web so 0:36:09.687 --> 0:36:18.177 I fabric Meisler enter Google option, enter a search command 0:36:18.207 --> 0:36:21.867 J have a conversation about it. Or let's say we're 0:36:21.867 --> 0:36:24.627 on another cool website. This is Pedro's website, which by 0:36:24.627 --> 0:36:27.177 the way, like I said before is very, very cool. 0:36:27.177 --> 0:36:31.977 So I click on writing a website refresh 2023 things 0:36:31.977 --> 0:36:35.667 I use. Okay, this is the different stuff that he uses. 0:36:35.667 --> 0:36:38.207 I wonder if this is probably the background for the 0:36:38.207 --> 0:36:41.657 raycast videos. That background right there? Pretty sure it is, 0:36:41.657 --> 0:36:44.597 but he's got all his different stuff here. So this 0:36:44.597 --> 0:36:46.607 is a great example. I'm going to show you a 0:36:46.607 --> 0:36:49.277 great example of this. He's got this thing. He's got 0:36:49.277 --> 0:36:51.977 all these pictures. He's got all the stuff. And it's like, okay, cool. 0:36:51.977 --> 0:36:55.457 I just want to know a very specific thing. Okay. 0:36:55.487 --> 0:37:00.347 So I'm going to do a some summarize page and 0:37:00.347 --> 0:37:03.317 just get a summary. That's probably where I start. And 0:37:03.317 --> 0:37:06.197 then if I do command J, I can say what 0:37:06.197 --> 0:37:10.067 kind of desk is he using. And of course, yeah, 0:37:10.097 --> 0:37:11.717 I could just go over here and read and look 0:37:11.717 --> 0:37:14.777 for the desk. So he says fully Jarvis, stand up 0:37:14.777 --> 0:37:17.417 desk again. I could just ask the AI and it 0:37:17.417 --> 0:37:21.677 could look, this page could have been 200 pages long, right? 0:37:21.707 --> 0:37:23.447 And I don't have the time to look for it, 0:37:23.447 --> 0:37:25.517 or I don't want to do a command F and 0:37:25.517 --> 0:37:29.627 find it. Whatever. Um, again, I can go into more detail. 0:37:29.657 --> 0:37:36.997 What kind of cameras does he shoot on? Look at that. Zv-e10. 0:37:37.027 --> 0:37:40.717 I haven't even heard of that one. Photography. Yeah. iPhone 0:37:40.717 --> 0:37:45.187 15 Pro. Just. You could just dive into content in 0:37:45.187 --> 0:37:49.297 and out of content however you want and then watch this. 0:37:49.327 --> 0:37:54.097 This is this is insane. So if you go to, uh, 0:37:54.097 --> 0:37:59.227 first of all, command comma opens the configuration for any app. 0:37:59.257 --> 0:38:01.807 That's just a macOS thing. But look, if you go 0:38:01.807 --> 0:38:06.187 to I. So a custom global hotkey I have it 0:38:06.187 --> 0:38:09.457 set to option enter. Okay, here's the other main use 0:38:09.457 --> 0:38:13.387 case for I not being actually on a website or 0:38:13.387 --> 0:38:17.197 copying text, or you're on a current browser tab or something, 0:38:17.197 --> 0:38:20.377 but instead you just want to ask AI a question. 0:38:20.377 --> 0:38:23.407 I have a custom hotkey set for that. It's the 0:38:23.407 --> 0:38:28.837 same command. See it's option option down here, but it's 0:38:28.867 --> 0:38:32.257 option A, and again I have that shortcut set up 0:38:32.257 --> 0:38:35.837 inside of raycast. So watch this Option A it pops 0:38:35.837 --> 0:38:39.287 up my thing. So I do a command n I'm 0:38:39.287 --> 0:38:41.837 in a new I session. This is exactly the same 0:38:41.837 --> 0:38:44.867 as going to like ChatGPT and starting a new session. 0:38:44.867 --> 0:38:48.497 Except for again, you're doing it from raycast instead and 0:38:48.497 --> 0:38:52.217 I didn't type raycast and then type something in and 0:38:52.217 --> 0:38:56.417 press command or and then pressed option enter. In fact 0:38:56.417 --> 0:38:59.627 I just did option A, because option A is the 0:38:59.627 --> 0:39:04.787 universal hotkey for opening my AI conversations. Okay, so from 0:39:04.787 --> 0:39:07.487 here I could just do any regular AI search that 0:39:07.487 --> 0:39:10.667 I'm in an AI conversation. Okay, next thing I want 0:39:10.697 --> 0:39:13.217 to talk about I'm going to close that out is 0:39:13.217 --> 0:39:16.007 I want to talk about the options. So when you 0:39:16.007 --> 0:39:18.767 open raycast. So I'm just going to open raycast. And 0:39:18.767 --> 0:39:21.077 if you do command comma this is a universal way 0:39:21.077 --> 0:39:23.867 to get to settings in Mac OS. So if I 0:39:23.867 --> 0:39:26.357 go to the settings and I go to AI, I 0:39:26.357 --> 0:39:29.957 can see that I can edit my universal hotkey for 0:39:29.957 --> 0:39:33.067 pulling up AI, which is like I said, option enter. 0:39:33.067 --> 0:39:35.437 You could change your model here and it could use 0:39:35.437 --> 0:39:39.576 whatever model you want. And again I chat right there 0:39:39.577 --> 0:39:43.117 is option A and send message is returned. You can 0:39:43.117 --> 0:39:45.787 configure all this. But then if I go to configure 0:39:45.817 --> 0:39:49.387 I commands look at all the different commands that I 0:39:49.387 --> 0:39:54.097 could use. Search AI commands send screen to I chat. 0:39:54.127 --> 0:39:57.637 You can send your current screen to AI and it'll 0:39:57.637 --> 0:40:01.087 tell you what's on the screen. Change the tone to casual. 0:40:01.087 --> 0:40:05.377 Explain the story explanation. Okay. This is this is a 0:40:05.377 --> 0:40:10.417 really cool one. Um, so I'm on this tab story explanation. 0:40:10.507 --> 0:40:14.977 This will create a story explanation of the web page 0:40:14.977 --> 0:40:16.687 that I'm on. And I wrote this one. This is 0:40:16.687 --> 0:40:19.867 actually a fabric integrated one. And it explains it in 0:40:19.867 --> 0:40:22.447 a way like you could explain to your grandmother or 0:40:22.447 --> 0:40:27.547 whatever and basically have it be a narrative to simplify 0:40:27.547 --> 0:40:31.357 whatever it is that you're working on. Um, but that's 0:40:31.357 --> 0:40:34.077 just one that I created. So create tone to friendly. 0:40:34.137 --> 0:40:36.717 Most of these are actually just already built in. This 0:40:36.717 --> 0:40:41.007 one was a fabric one that I added myself. Extract predictions, 0:40:41.007 --> 0:40:44.907 extract the primary problem, extract wisdom, find bugs in code, 0:40:44.907 --> 0:40:48.657 fix the spelling and grammar. This is all just naturally 0:40:48.657 --> 0:40:55.227 built in. And most importantly, create an AI command. Okay, 0:40:55.227 --> 0:41:00.597 if I do see a I create AI command. So 0:41:00.597 --> 0:41:03.417 now we have a command name. We have a prompt, 0:41:03.417 --> 0:41:06.177 we have the model we want to use, and we 0:41:06.177 --> 0:41:08.697 can go and save that thing. It's insane. So you 0:41:08.697 --> 0:41:11.907 can just keep adding to this list that you see here. 0:41:11.907 --> 0:41:14.817 And look at this. If you're worried about sending this 0:41:14.847 --> 0:41:17.547 off to a third party, look at this. You could 0:41:17.547 --> 0:41:21.927 run it with Obama. If you have Obama running, which 0:41:21.957 --> 0:41:24.237 I tend to have a llama running. I don't know 0:41:24.237 --> 0:41:28.677 if I have it yet, but I just restarted Obama now, 0:41:28.677 --> 0:41:31.627 I could use any of these same things that you're doing. 0:41:31.627 --> 0:41:35.077 Improve the writing. Make it longer, make it shorter, whatever 0:41:35.107 --> 0:41:38.407 you could call olama with local models and not send 0:41:38.407 --> 0:41:42.457 it off anywhere to do that same stuff. So it's 0:41:42.487 --> 0:41:46.057 whatever integration you want to use. But long story short, 0:41:46.057 --> 0:41:50.767 all of this comes down to raycast being a universal 0:41:50.767 --> 0:41:53.707 launcher that allows you to do all this different stuff 0:41:53.707 --> 0:41:56.527 we've talked about. All right, so that was just a 0:41:56.527 --> 0:41:59.737 few of the main ones that I wanted to talk 0:41:59.767 --> 0:42:03.157 about and share with you. Like I said, you can 0:42:03.187 --> 0:42:06.247 deep dive in rabbit Hole on this and you will 0:42:06.277 --> 0:42:10.027 come back many, many hours later or days later like 0:42:10.027 --> 0:42:13.747 I did. And I haven't even started fully configuring all 0:42:13.747 --> 0:42:17.617 my AI stuff. I'm actually building a full extension for 0:42:17.617 --> 0:42:21.517 fabric to just have the commands for all the patterns 0:42:21.517 --> 0:42:24.637 right there. So it's like fuzzy finding. As I'm typing. 0:42:24.637 --> 0:42:27.067 I could type in the pattern name and it will 0:42:27.067 --> 0:42:29.847 autocomplete for me, and it will run that against the 0:42:29.847 --> 0:42:34.167 web page or against the clipboard text or whatever. So 0:42:34.197 --> 0:42:37.047 I haven't even started messing with this thing fully, and 0:42:37.047 --> 0:42:39.837 I'm already like a hundred times more useful than I 0:42:39.837 --> 0:42:42.897 was at the end of 24 before I started this process. 0:42:42.897 --> 0:42:50.007 So again, invoke think action happens. And most importantly of 0:42:50.007 --> 0:42:54.957 all the extensions, the AI integration have AI right here 0:42:54.957 --> 0:42:58.977 available here type type type type option enter and you 0:42:58.977 --> 0:43:02.097 are inside of AI. You do command J to continue 0:43:02.097 --> 0:43:04.737 the conversation or if you want to start from scratch, 0:43:04.737 --> 0:43:07.527 you just do command a. If you set that up 0:43:07.527 --> 0:43:10.407 as your alias for AI. And I want to show 0:43:10.407 --> 0:43:13.707 you that real quick. So showing you real quick how 0:43:13.707 --> 0:43:17.037 to set these up. So basically those are hotkeys. Alias 0:43:17.037 --> 0:43:20.517 means you're already inside of raycast. Hotkey means you're invoking 0:43:20.517 --> 0:43:23.337 it straight from the operating system. So you're just at 0:43:23.337 --> 0:43:26.037 the keyboard, you're invoking it. So if I scroll down 0:43:26.037 --> 0:43:28.047 here you're going to see a bunch of these. Option 0:43:28.067 --> 0:43:31.877 A is for I chat. So that's like look, so 0:43:31.877 --> 0:43:34.007 I'm out here, I'm not doing anything and I do 0:43:34.037 --> 0:43:37.757 option A and I'm inside of I with a regular chat. 0:43:37.757 --> 0:43:41.927 So that's option A. But I have this for C 0:43:42.197 --> 0:43:45.887 which is cursor, I have it for B which is browser, 0:43:45.887 --> 0:43:48.497 I have it for lots of different things. So I 0:43:48.497 --> 0:43:52.307 have hotkeys configured for lots of different stuff. Again you 0:43:52.307 --> 0:43:56.597 can go and set this up to your heart's content. Right. 0:43:56.627 --> 0:43:59.777 And and if you are a massive customizer like me, 0:43:59.777 --> 0:44:01.337 you're going to want to do a ton of these. 0:44:01.337 --> 0:44:03.497 So I've got a ton of these for aliases. I've 0:44:03.497 --> 0:44:06.707 got a ton of these for hotkeys. So T.W. this 0:44:06.707 --> 0:44:10.487 is thinkers work. Oh yeah. This one's crazy. So look 0:44:10.487 --> 0:44:14.357 at this t w tab. This is a fabric one 0:44:14.357 --> 0:44:16.397 for thinkers work. This is kind of a diversion. But 0:44:16.397 --> 0:44:18.797 whatever I could do this video for like five hours. 0:44:18.797 --> 0:44:23.477 So thinkers work. So if I put in Bertrand Russell 0:44:23.477 --> 0:44:25.937 in here, it's going to give me a one line 0:44:25.937 --> 0:44:29.697 encapsulation of what Bertrand Russell is about. It's going to 0:44:29.697 --> 0:44:32.937 give you his most important ideas, the most important works, 0:44:32.937 --> 0:44:37.017 to go look at the most important quotes and advice. 0:44:37.017 --> 0:44:40.977 So that's a fabric pattern integrated in. And the reason 0:44:40.977 --> 0:44:43.497 I'm showing it to you now is because T.W. is 0:44:43.497 --> 0:44:45.627 how I get there. So basically I don't have to 0:44:45.657 --> 0:44:50.187 type thinkers work or even start typing it. I could 0:44:50.187 --> 0:44:53.967 just do T.W. so basically I don't have to type 0:44:53.997 --> 0:44:57.897 thinkers work or even start typing it. I could just 0:44:57.897 --> 0:45:02.187 do T.W. tab and it automatically knows that. In fact, 0:45:02.187 --> 0:45:06.867 I think I could go T.W. space as well. So T.W. 0:45:06.867 --> 0:45:10.197 space or T.W. Tab also gets you there. And you 0:45:10.197 --> 0:45:12.806 could just put anybody in here and it will summarize 0:45:12.807 --> 0:45:16.227 their work and give you back that synopsis. All right. 0:45:16.227 --> 0:45:19.227 So that's what I wanted to share with you basically 0:45:19.227 --> 0:45:23.637 my new religion of raycast and specifically how to use 0:45:23.667 --> 0:45:26.787 AI within raycast. And we'll see you in the next one. 0:45:26.787 --> 0:45:27.087 Take care.