S1: Hey what's up? So every year towards the end of
S1: the year, I start thinking about how I can optimize
S1: my environment. So basically tools, techniques, processes, notes, whatever. And
S1: this year was no different the end of 2024. And
S1: this time I went crazy, though I went absolutely crazy.
S1: I started optimizing everything. I ended up spending like over 40,
S1: 60 hours. I didn't even keep track, but it was
S1: like probably over 60 hours of customizing, like everything. And
S1: ultimately the thing that came back to be the centerpiece
S1: was this tool called raycast. So I'm going to jump
S1: into that. Okay. So here we are over here on
S1: the raycast website. It's raycast comm. And you see that
S1: I'm talking about your shortcut to everything. They actually had
S1: another tagline I think I liked better which was action
S1: at the speed of thought. And this is going to
S1: be a theme that you're going to see throughout this
S1: entire video. And this is the reason that I am
S1: so excited about this. Essentially, if you are on macOS
S1: and you are not using raycast, I'm telling you you
S1: are at a tiny fraction of your possible productivity. It
S1: is that important. If you've been watching any of the
S1: stuff I've been talking about with AI, the whole concept
S1: that I've been harping on and pushing on for all
S1: this time since like whatever the end of 2022 is,
S1: it's not about the tools that you use. It's not
S1: about the technology and how powerful it is. The real
S1: question is, as you go through regular life and you're
S1: trying to actually accomplish things, how quickly can you take
S1: your current problem that just popped into your head and
S1: bring that problem to a particular technology or a particular tool,
S1: and then get the answer back and reincorporate that into
S1: your life in whatever you were doing at that moment.
S1: That is the most important thing for tech integration. We
S1: have an integration problem with tech. We don't have a
S1: capability problem. This is especially true with AI. And AI
S1: is what I'm going to demo Last but what I'm
S1: going to do first is show you a whole series
S1: of a few of the main use cases that I
S1: use raycast for, and why I think it's so powerful.
S1: All right. So the first thing is what are we
S1: talking about here at the very base level like level
S1: zero for this tool is it is a launcher. So
S1: you've used spotlight before. Again we're talking about Mac OS
S1: centric here. You've used spotlight before. A lot of people,
S1: including myself, used Alfred for a very long time. And
S1: this is essentially a successor to Alfred. It's it's just
S1: better in every way. But mad respect to Alfred. It's
S1: still got me through a lot of stuff and it
S1: was very good for the time. So first thing is
S1: just launching, right. So we're going to launch something. You
S1: can launch an app, you could launch notes, you could
S1: launch calendar, you could launch whatever. So that's the same
S1: as with spotlight. That's the same as with Alfred. It's
S1: just a launcher. Now Quick links is the next level.
S1: Next level. And this is my hierarchy here. But I
S1: would say that next level is quick links. And quick
S1: links allows you to do more than just launch. You
S1: can actually launch and configure at the same time. It's
S1: basically like a better launcher. So if I open up
S1: extensions actually, and I go to and I just scroll
S1: down and I'm going to look for a quick links,
S1: we're going to take a look at different things that
S1: I've set up with quick links okay. So here's quick
S1: links here. And here's a good example. So I influence level.
S1: This is a post that people ask about a lot
S1: or I want to just reference and I can't remember it.
S1: Quick links has basically replaced bookmarks for me. I don't
S1: use bookmarks anymore. I actually haven't used them very often
S1: in like the last few years. I just it doesn't
S1: occur to me to go up to manage bookmarks, scroll
S1: over and start looking for something that is not efficient
S1: at all whatsoever. So what I've done is taken anything
S1: that I would have put into bookmarks, and I now
S1: have that inside of individual quick links that I know
S1: that I go to often. So for example this I
S1: influence level post, I influence boom, I didn't even type
S1: all of it. I just typed like a little bit
S1: of it. Right. And this thing pops up so cool. Um,
S1: but what else do we have in there? Uh, extensions.
S1: So I people so this is like I people that
S1: I follow on AP. Yeah. I don't even have to
S1: type all of it. This thing, I'm telling you, it
S1: reads your mind. It reads your mind. If you start
S1: typing a thing once again, go back to the concept
S1: of action at the speed of thought. Just think of
S1: the thing and start typing. And then you're going to
S1: be able to press enter. The more you trust the tool,
S1: the better the tool gets. And we're just going to
S1: go deeper and deeper levels until we get to the
S1: final piece, which is the eye piece, which is absolutely insane.
S1: It's my new eye workflow, but we'll save that to
S1: the end. So here's a bunch of eye people. This
S1: is like an eye list that I put together, so
S1: if I want to look at what I people are
S1: talking about I type this. So I people um, extensions.
S1: All right. Let's say I want to check Amazon orders.
S1: So Amazon orders. Oh look this is like the different
S1: things I've ordered recently. Nothing too embarrassing I think the
S1: editing team checked that out beforehand. All right. I actually
S1: had to rerecord this bit because while I was showing
S1: off a couple of features, I actually clicked on some
S1: crazy drum and bass EDM and it was like super
S1: loud and it went over the whole thing. You might
S1: have saw that version, but basically this is a cleanup
S1: of that. But what I want to talk about now
S1: is extensions. So if I do extensions and I open
S1: this up, this is essentially all the stuff that you
S1: have access to within raycast. And there's a whole store
S1: for this, right? So if you go to the plus
S1: and say install from store, this is where you can
S1: install like all the different things. So this is basically
S1: how you get new functionality into the tool. So essentially
S1: what I did when I did my whole refresh of
S1: my tech stack was I basically figured out all the
S1: different stuff that I was using separate tools for, and
S1: I looked for analogs or like improvements of those inside
S1: of the raycast store. And the vast majority I found
S1: something as good or better, but if we just look
S1: through mine. So Apple notes um bru. So this you basically, um,
S1: clean up search, show anything you have installed with homebrew, calculator, calendar, clipboard, history,
S1: color picker, color picker is kind of cool. Pick color.
S1: And this basically boom. And now that color is, uh,
S1: copied into my clipboard. so now I can just paste
S1: that somewhere else in the hex format. Developer. That's for
S1: like creating extensions. You could control all your Docker images.
S1: Dungeons and Dragons you could do like. Yeah, you could
S1: see everything about your different monsters or whatever. I installed
S1: that because I have a game on Friday which is
S1: actually today. So game night tonight with the friends, uh, GitHub,
S1: Google Workspace home assistant. So you can do all sorts
S1: of stuff with your home menu bar calendar. This is
S1: a thing, um, that I talked about or will talk
S1: about up here in the top right in the menu bar.
S1: Olama I so basically all the different AI stuff that
S1: we're going to talk about, you could also do with
S1: local models with Olama, uh, pick your wallpaper. You can
S1: control wallpaper there. Quick links. We talked about that one. Um,
S1: lots of different raycast things independently. Look at this. This
S1: is all my bookmarks. So I could search my bookmarks.
S1: I can add a bookmark. Again, I'm not using bookmarks
S1: in Arc anymore Uh, because I just I haven't used
S1: browser based bookmarks in so long. Like, I would just
S1: put everything into a queue and I would never go
S1: back to it. Well, what I could do now is
S1: store it in Drop.io, which right now to me is
S1: the best bookmark like manager or database. But the whole
S1: point of bookmarks is you can never find this stuff, right?
S1: So again, this is the interface to that. This is
S1: the way you get into it. Um, wanted to show
S1: just a couple of more things around. Quick links. Real
S1: quick side tangent here. So I have a time server.
S1: All right. So essentially what I'm showing here is this
S1: is my own internal time server. This is a stratum
S1: one time server. Which means I'm not talking to some
S1: other time server that's talking to a time server that
S1: has really good time. I am talking directly to the satellites.
S1: I have a thing in my attic is picking up
S1: really good signal. Look at this 30. Signal to noise ratio. 30dB.
S1: This is really, really high quality signal. And I've seen
S1: 27 satellites and I'm currently using 14. And I have
S1: a 3D fix, which means, uh, both, uh, forward sideways
S1: and up and down. Right. So x, y and Z.
S1: Basically it's three dimensions, right. So you need a certain
S1: amount of fix before you can actually get a 3D fix.
S1: And if you look at my, um, well, you can
S1: actually see him because I have him blurred out. But
S1: if you look at my accuracies, it's within like eight
S1: feet for these things. So it's specifically where on the
S1: planet I am sitting in this chair. And the point
S1: is that I set up this DNS inside of my
S1: networking system so I could just instantly go there, right?
S1: But look, I've also got this other one called shake,
S1: and this one is actually my earthquake data. So this
S1: is basically shakes that have happened inside of where I
S1: have this device. So I can go and find earthquakes
S1: when they happen, or if I happen to stomp or
S1: drop weights or something right next to where this thing is.
S1: But just a couple more things that I have, like
S1: inside of quick links. The whole point here is you
S1: don't want to be thinking about what you are doing.
S1: You want to be just executing it. Right? And that
S1: takes us squarely into this next topic, which is quick searches.
S1: So quick searches are a thing that lots of browsers
S1: have had before. And I've done infinite configuration of this
S1: from like probably 8 or 10 different browsers over the years.
S1: So it's basically when you do a command L, you're
S1: able to put like an A in front of something,
S1: and then that A can become like an Amazon and
S1: then you type something and then you're now searching Amazon.
S1: And that was all built inside of the browser. I
S1: don't like that though, because browsers change. I might change
S1: browsers myself and switch to a different one. I would
S1: rather have it be universal. So what I could do
S1: is I could do a space um, time server, and
S1: I now just searched Amazon for time server. If I
S1: do G space time server, I am now doing a
S1: Google search for time server. If I do p time server,
S1: you probably guess what that's going to do. Perplexity. Okay,
S1: so Amazon perplexity Google. And the default is actually this one.
S1: So watch this. This is amazing. And this is going
S1: to tease into the AI part which we're going to
S1: talk about later. But look at this. If I do
S1: time server I didn't type any prefix because the more
S1: important the task is that you are doing, the more
S1: you want to have it involve fewer steps. Okay. You
S1: want to have as few steps as possible. Okay. So
S1: if I type time space server, that's going to look
S1: what it popped up. The default is to search with Google.
S1: So without me typing a G because that's one extra step.
S1: And more importantly, it's one extra friction step inside my
S1: brain of like thinking that I want to search Google.
S1: My default is to search Google. I tried perplexity for
S1: a while. I switched back to Google. Google seems to
S1: be catching up with some of the AI summarization stuff.
S1: I don't know. I'm on the I'm on the fence.
S1: It's like half and half for me. But anyway, the
S1: bottom line is the most important thing that you do.
S1: You want to be more default with fewer steps interrupting you.
S1: So time server press enter with my pinky. And now
S1: I am searching Google. But watch this. Actually I'm not.
S1: I'm not even going to show you. I'm not even
S1: going to show you this part, because that's a teaser
S1: for the AI part, which comes next or comes a
S1: little bit later. All right. So the point of all
S1: of this. Okay, I'm going to keep hitting this because
S1: this is like the most important concept here. We're talking
S1: about friction reduction. We're talking about Neuralink. Okay. When you
S1: first get these tools you have to go to their
S1: independent places. There's no possible way to like invoke them
S1: in a central way. Um, you know, like within a
S1: browser or something. So they're all disparate websites or disparate tools.
S1: You have to go individually, pull them up, then maybe
S1: it gets a little bit easier with something like spotlight,
S1: because you could at least like pull up an invoker
S1: to call the thing, but you can't really access specific
S1: functions of it. The point is, you have a lot
S1: of thinking to do, and that thinking is friction. I
S1: do not want friction. Now, the ultimate version of this,
S1: which is so obvious for everyone, it's not like a secret.
S1: The ultimate version of this is you literally think, and
S1: it literally happens. And that's like what some people are
S1: working on. Ellen's working on with like Neuralink and stuff
S1: like that. So it's literally taking what you're thinking. You're
S1: not moving a muscle and it's going and it's happening. Okay. Well,
S1: we already know that's the ultimate goal and is pretty
S1: far away. So what I like to do just in
S1: life and just in productivity and in programming and in
S1: coding and projects and everything is I think about what
S1: the ultimate is. And then I work backwards to like, okay,
S1: I don't want to be way over here on the
S1: left grasping at like, oh, maybe I could do this,
S1: or maybe I could do that, maybe I could do this.
S1: What I do is I start with the ultimate, and
S1: I work backwards and see how close I can get
S1: to it. Okay, that is why raycast is exciting to
S1: me because it is an early prototype. It is a
S1: closer version to the best thing that we're ever going
S1: to have, which is instant thought and in action, right?
S1: That's why I love the Ray cast motto of action
S1: at the speed of thought. And that's why I think
S1: it's the best motto that they've actually had right action
S1: at the speed of thought. So that's what you do
S1: when you invoke, like this. You're popping this thing up
S1: and you're just typing according to what you're thinking, and
S1: that is pretty damn close. Uh, moving in the direction
S1: of Neuralink. And that's why I'm so excited about it. Okay,
S1: so like we were talking about search snippets, so snip
S1: again watch this ssn e. But what am I typing?
S1: Who even knows? I'm thinking I'm trying to record as well,
S1: but like SS and E look there. SS and ni
S1: are all in search snippets. Once again the thing reads
S1: your mind. It knows what you're thinking of. So search snippets.
S1: This bottom note happens to be one that I made recently.
S1: That's how we did the whole workflow I just did
S1: a second ago. But I could do that with callout
S1: caption Google API key. You got to be careful with these.
S1: You got to watch out. You need to keep in
S1: mind what you're actually storing in here. I don't store
S1: any passwords in here. And actually they have a defense
S1: that kind of makes sure you're not storing things that
S1: are too sensitive. But just keep in mind. But the
S1: point is, all of these different snippets are now available
S1: to me to invoke via raycast, as opposed to using
S1: yet another third party app. So that's really cool. You
S1: can add them very quickly. Um, c n I okay,
S1: c s actually create snippet again, it figures out what
S1: you're trying to do. So if I want to just
S1: press enter I can make a new snippet okay. So
S1: that's that's how snippets work. Next thing I want to
S1: talk about is actually screenshots. Okay. Screenshots. Super super cool.
S1: This is like one of the most powerful things you
S1: could do with raycast and people who love screenshots are
S1: going to love this like you cannot believe. All right,
S1: so watch this. I'm going to take a screenshot with
S1: boom boom boom. I think it's shift command four if
S1: I'm not mistaken. So I'm going to take this screenshot
S1: pops down here. And then I'm going to go watch this.
S1: See I could have typed SC either way. And by
S1: the way I didn't even set up an alias. This
S1: is just figuring it out by itself. Search screenshots I'm
S1: going to press enter. Watch this. Whoa. It just pulled
S1: it up. Text. Whoa I just typed text. Guess what?
S1: Guess what? Watch. This raycast is doing OCR on the content.
S1: It knows if there's text in the screenshot. Okay, I
S1: actually have something else that's like crazy cool, which is
S1: a whole separate talk show. But look what I got
S1: set up. I've got a thing that actually identifies what's
S1: in the screenshot and it renames the screenshot. And I
S1: actually talk about this in the in the full video.
S1: I talked about it earlier, but anyway this is not required.
S1: It's unrelated to what raycast is doing, but I just
S1: thought I would mention that because it's kind of cool.
S1: So again see search screenshots. This one is actually recent.
S1: So um, let me just type construction. Look at that construction.
S1: It finds the construction. This is actually a picture of
S1: my house being built a long time ago, 2021. But, um,
S1: it figures out construction. I wonder if it would find would. Look.
S1: That's ridiculous. How many screenshots do you take? All the
S1: time and you can't find them? This is integrated right in.
S1: This is not a third party tool. This is built
S1: right in. I'm telling you, if you get your utilities
S1: into this system for 2025, you're going to be flying
S1: around your operating system. That's what I'm doing now. I'm
S1: just like thinking stuff happens and I haven't even told
S1: you the coolest one yet, which is the I one.
S1: All right, for the next one, I want to actually
S1: talk about my menu bar and I'm using a utility.
S1: I can't remember if this is fully integrated with raycast,
S1: or if it's just like a third party utility that
S1: somebody was talking about. Um, it was one of the
S1: interviews from the raycast show. In fact, let me just
S1: go over there to uh, raycast, which I should make
S1: a quick link for that. But anyway, um, let's see
S1: if they have like a link to their YouTube. All right.
S1: Another piece of functionality I want to show you is
S1: actually searching videos. So something just made me think of
S1: the main guy doing all the videos for raycast. His
S1: name is Pedro and this is actually his website. He's
S1: like super cool. I love all the videos. I love
S1: the way he presents all the information and I feel
S1: like they made a good choice because he actually gets
S1: why raycast is so important, which would make sense. Why
S1: he's in charge of running the YouTube channel. I'm not
S1: sure what he officially does, but he's the the face
S1: that I see the most from the videos over there.
S1: But anyway, here's his website. And by the way, the
S1: website is like completely sick and behind this blurred out
S1: text is actually him doing the videos like that is cool.
S1: And it's not even hitting my GPU or CPU that much,
S1: which is kind of interesting. But anyway, I want to
S1: show you just real quick one more extension for actually
S1: searching videos. So if I do SV search video, look,
S1: I'm actually searching YouTube for videos. So if I do
S1: like quick links and raycast, I'm actually searching YouTube videos
S1: for raycast content about quick links. Okay, so I. And
S1: there he is right there. That's Pedro. He's the one
S1: doing all these videos. And here he is talking about
S1: mastering quick links. And you can listen to him here.
S2: And today I want to show you how to master them.
S1: So that is essentially how to search for videos very quickly.
S1: Again you could do this for anything. Um, so SRV again,
S1: search videos. Uh mizler fabric and it should pull up
S1: fabric videos. Yeah. It's got network chuck there. So this
S1: is a basically a way to find any of your
S1: own videos. You could find channels. This way you could
S1: find videos this way you could do like whatever you
S1: want to do. So again, another interface for searching not
S1: just web but also videos. Okay. So the next piece
S1: of functionality I want to talk about is actually my
S1: menu bar. So my menu bar, it's actually got a
S1: bunch of functionality in it. So I've got all these
S1: tools that are up there that are up there. Normally
S1: you might have to zoom in for this one because
S1: the menu bar is just kind of small and I
S1: can't really easily zoom. But I've got this tool called
S1: Hidden Bar, and this came from one of like the
S1: 100 videos that I watched about raycast. Some of these
S1: tools are separate, and they just kind of integrate with
S1: raycast and go into the menu bar, and other times
S1: they're just kind of like unrelated. But anyway, hidden bar
S1: or hidden menu. I'm not sure exactly what it's called.
S1: It basically hides and cleans up your menu bar, but
S1: I'm going to go through step by step. This is
S1: actually because I'm recording right now. But look at this.
S1: This is a tool called stats. Stats is kind of
S1: like a free replacement for stat menus. And it basically
S1: works the same. It kind of looks the same. It's very,
S1: very cool. I got you here. One little tidbit for you.
S1: If you go to Raycast Comm and you look at
S1: this little background thing, look at this, look at the
S1: GPU going wild right now. Okay. Yeah. So stepping through
S1: these different things in the top here I've got CPU,
S1: I've got GPU, I've got memory, I've got my disk
S1: and I've got network. And look at this right here.
S1: This is really cool. So right here it tells me
S1: what my next meeting is and it tells me how
S1: long before that happens. And right here it shows me
S1: what I have as well. But it also gives me
S1: a calendar view. So this is like mini calendar. This
S1: is my schedule which is built into raycast. And they're
S1: all putting those there appropriately. And I basically took a
S1: bunch of stuff out of the menu that I didn't
S1: want there and put them there. And this one is
S1: really cool. This came from a video that Pedro had
S1: somebody on and they had this. This is the number
S1: of people that are actively browsing my website like this
S1: exact second. And I could open that up in fathom,
S1: which is the Fathom Analytics platform that allows this to happen.
S1: Then I've got the weather, I've got my notes. This
S1: is my current focus state, and that's pretty much it.
S1: So this is like a collapsed version, which is way
S1: cleaner than that nightmare right there. So menu bar integration
S1: I'm most excited about this one, which shows me my
S1: calendar and my schedule for exactly what I have to
S1: do today, and it's available in one click. And even
S1: better than a click, it's available as a view. So
S1: I could look up and see in an hour and
S1: 11 minutes I'm going to talk to Edward. Okay. So
S1: that was the menu bar. All right. Now I want
S1: to show you the thing I actually have been wanting
S1: to show you the whole time, which is the thing
S1: that has most changed my workflow from all the different changes,
S1: like hundreds of different changes that I made with my
S1: toolset and my workflows and my processes, and most importantly,
S1: raycast of all the different ones. I save the best
S1: for last and that is AI integration. So I've done
S1: tons of AI. You've probably seen a bunch of the videos.
S1: If you haven't, please go check them out. But my
S1: core concept with AI, as I talked about before, is
S1: we don't have an AI technology problem. There are a
S1: million different AI websites. There are a million different AI tools,
S1: there's a million different AI utilities. And like, what are
S1: you supposed to do when you have a given problem.
S1: Which tool are you supposed to use? Which utility? Which website?
S1: That's the hardest part. Right. You have anthropic. You have OpenAI,
S1: you have all these different things. And like I said before,
S1: we don't have a capability problem. We have an integration problem.
S1: And with AI it's the absolute worst. Integrating the problems
S1: that you have with the AI that you have is
S1: the hardest thing. And so my first thing that I
S1: was thinking of when I started looking at raycast is like,
S1: how can I get a bunch of my AI stuff
S1: into there? So real quick, I want to pull up
S1: this platform that I built called fabric. So if we
S1: just go to fabric we go to the GitHub. This
S1: is the repo and this is the project and it's
S1: pretty cool. I recommend you check it out on its own. Um,
S1: basically it is a whole bunch of crowdsourced prompts that
S1: do a whole bunch of stuff, uh, solving particular use cases.
S1: There's like cybersecurity use cases. There's like life, uh, use cases.
S1: There's just a million different things that you could do
S1: inside of fabric. And the center of it is these patterns. Okay.
S1: These patterns allow you to do like a million different things.
S1: All right. So let me just go up to the
S1: patterns here. And if I click on patterns and look
S1: at this analyze answers, analyze candidates. Analyze paper analyze spiritual text.
S1: Create better frame like there's a bunch of videos from
S1: other people. Right. So I would say go check these out.
S1: These are integrations. These are problems and solutions to specific
S1: problems that we have in our life. But here's the problem.
S1: You have this problem. Extract recipe, extract questions, extract video ID.
S1: You have this thing that you want to do, but
S1: you're inside of some application. How do you get that
S1: thing from here to there? Right. So what I like
S1: to do is I go and I open up fabric
S1: on the command line because I'm a command line person,
S1: I like that, but that's not for enough people, right?
S1: Not enough people use the command line. A very small
S1: percentage of people are command line first, like I am, right?
S1: And I understand that. So I'm looking for other ways
S1: to integrate. And we've done a couple of different things.
S1: But raycast is the absolute best one. So I'm going
S1: to show you a couple of ways to integrate these
S1: patterns inside of raycast. But first we're actually going to
S1: build up from there. So we're actually going to go
S1: in order. All right let's just skip all that I'm
S1: actually just going to do the fabric one separately afterwards.
S1: Like I said I'm most excited about talking about this
S1: AI stuff. And here's the actual flow for doing this
S1: in a smarter way like I was talking about. So
S1: normally what you do is you do something like, okay,
S1: you launch clod. Okay, so here's a clod application. You
S1: can type into clod. You can get your results back. Cool.
S1: Or you can come over here and you could go
S1: to cloud Sky and you can get your answers from there. Um.
S1: That's Claude. I personally prefer, uh, OpenAI, so that would
S1: be like ChatGPT, but I never go to the website anymore.
S1: I'm not even logged in. I don't go to the
S1: website anymore because of raycast, so check this out. I
S1: told you before in quick searches that I could do
S1: p space something right and search for it. That's cool.
S1: And I also told you you could do g space
S1: and you could search for something on Google. And I
S1: also told you that if you do just whatever search term,
S1: you can actually just do it right from the command line.
S1: And you don't have to do the G, because that
S1: is your default one that you set to the top.
S1: So I just did a search on Google by invoking raycast,
S1: typing the search term and pressing enter so you get
S1: back whatever. Right. So that is really powerful. All right.
S1: So I talked about how you could do that quick
S1: search with Google. Right. So you can just type whatever
S1: here and it's going to go and search that in Google.
S1: But what if I could type like I fabric mizler here.
S1: And instead of pressing enter we know what that would do.
S1: It would be a Google search. Instead I switch over
S1: to the option key and I press enter. Guess what
S1: I just did? I just skipped all those steps of
S1: going to an AI application, calling up like an actual
S1: thick client on the computer, or going to a website
S1: like OpenAI or Claude or Anthropic or whatever, and typing
S1: into a website, right? So rather than clicking or even
S1: using raycast to open the website, I'm bypassing that completely
S1: and just typing it into raycast and instead of pressing
S1: regular enter, I press. And this is configurable option enter
S1: and it brings this up. Okay so let me search.
S1: So let me show you this. Okay. This is insane.
S1: Look it didn't just give me the LM response. And
S1: by the way I'm using Claude three five sonnet for this.
S1: You can configure this to any model that you want
S1: to use. Sonnet I'm using it seems pretty fast. I
S1: like it a lot. So it gives me not only
S1: an LM answer, but look what it did. It gave
S1: me the GitHub for fabric. It gave me my website
S1: to talk more about the introduction to fabric and why
S1: I created it. This is custom raycast built functionality wrapped
S1: around the AI. Okay, so I could click on these
S1: links and guess what? It's going to pull up fabric
S1: the actual um project. It's going to pull up the
S1: actual project because of those links. So again I fabric Mizler. Alt. Enter.
S1: It's going to search it up again. It's probably going
S1: to find similar things or say similar things and find
S1: the same links. Plus eight. Look at this. It found
S1: all these links as well. So I've got all these references.
S1: That is not the crazy part. You want to see
S1: the crazy part. Watch this. Do you see this right here?
S1: I got to actually move my mouse command J. Watch this.
S1: Command J. I just launched into a dedicated AI conversation location. Okay,
S1: so now I can say I don't get it. What
S1: does fabric do? Let me search for a clear explanation
S1: of what fabric does. It's going to go and consume
S1: this whole web page. Think about it. A collection of
S1: pre-made AI prompts called patterns that help users get better
S1: results from AI systems. So again, more links to GitHub
S1: plus all these different links. And now I can just
S1: have a dynamic conversation with my AI about the web
S1: page that I'm on. Okay, so I'm going to go
S1: back to threshold, which is a different app that I built. Um,
S1: what is this, uh, incredible conundrum of life's origin? Okay,
S1: let's go and click on that. Well, that's got a login,
S1: so let's not click on that one. Okay. This guy
S1: is really cool. I follow this guy. Well this is
S1: actually Daring Fireball talking about Simon Willison. But Simon Willison
S1: is a cool AI guy you should check out. He's
S1: basically a developer who talks a lot about AI, but
S1: this is the website. So what is he talking about here? Right?
S1: What is he actually talking about? Here? Watch this. This
S1: is absolutely insane. This is the fastest thing you can
S1: think of some. Oh, I typed three letters, some summarise page.
S1: This is a custom thing that I wrote, which actually
S1: brings it down to one sentence. And I'm going to
S1: show you how to write these in a second. Bring
S1: it down to one sentence. Models got faster, cheaper with
S1: better vision. Audio features while running locally became possible. That's
S1: the one sentence summary. Watch this. This one is actually
S1: built in to raycast. I summarize web page again. It's
S1: pulling from the live web page that I'm on and
S1: it does a full breakdown of the stuff. Okay, I'm
S1: going to go back to my site because I know
S1: the content better. This one's called fast versus slow. I
S1: again I'm on the thing. I'm like, oh, this is
S1: too long. I don't want to read this. This is lame.
S1: I got to go to a meeting in 30s sum
S1: summarize page. What did I actually say here? Fast AI
S1: helps find content, but slow human processing remains vital for
S1: meaningful learning and growth. I actually used a fabric pattern
S1: to make this. Okay, um, I've got another one called
S1: Extract Wisdom e w extract wisdom. This will extract wisdom
S1: using a fabric pattern, which is a prompt which will
S1: pull a summary. The summary is going to be better,
S1: even maybe than the summarize page one that I wrote. Look,
S1: pull all the ideas out of it and it just
S1: keeps going, right? But I could summarize all the different ideas.
S1: I could get quotes out of it. I could do whatever.
S1: If there's something that actually talks about predictions, let's go
S1: to like what's going to have a cool bleeping bleeping
S1: computer bad signature Subaru Starlink flaw. Okay, here we go.
S1: Subaru Starlink flaw lets hackers hijacked cars in US and
S1: Canada extract primary problem. This one is a another fabric
S1: thing that I wrote, which kind of summarizes what this
S1: piece of content thinks is the biggest problem. And it's
S1: a good way of summarizing. In my opinion, connected vehicles
S1: create dangerous security vulnerabilities that expose private data and physical safety. Cool.
S1: Makes sense. And you probably could have got that from
S1: the summary as well. Summarize page. This is probably going
S1: to talk more about the vulnerability security flaw and Subaru.
S1: Starlink allowed company vehicle control through license plates affecting US,
S1: Canada and Japan. Bottom line is I could use any
S1: of my fabric patterns. So watch this. I go back fabric,
S1: go to the GitHub project that we created. Go to
S1: the patterns. I could turn any of these workflows. This
S1: is like hundreds from hundreds of contributors. All these I
S1: could turn into instant things that I could do on
S1: any website, on any block of text. It's just absolutely insane.
S1: So so this workflow is just unbelievable. I no longer
S1: have to go to a web page to start doing
S1: AI stuff. Okay, this is basically my cloud and my I?
S1: OpenAI all built in, but it's inside of raycast. It's.
S1: And I don't use those standalone apps anymore. Um, unless
S1: I'm doing some very specified stuff, like in the playground
S1: for the different platforms when I'm building my own AI workflows.
S1: But in terms of like day to day use, day
S1: to day workflows, I am not using anything except for raycast.
S1: That is how good they have made this right. So again,
S1: the number one workflow is I'm searching the web so
S1: I fabric Meisler enter Google option, enter a search command
S1: J have a conversation about it. Or let's say we're
S1: on another cool website. This is Pedro's website, which by
S1: the way, like I said before is very, very cool.
S1: So I click on writing a website refresh 2023 things
S1: I use. Okay, this is the different stuff that he uses.
S1: I wonder if this is probably the background for the
S1: raycast videos. That background right there? Pretty sure it is,
S1: but he's got all his different stuff here. So this
S1: is a great example. I'm going to show you a
S1: great example of this. He's got this thing. He's got
S1: all these pictures. He's got all the stuff. And it's like, okay, cool.
S1: I just want to know a very specific thing. Okay.
S1: So I'm going to do a some summarize page and
S1: just get a summary. That's probably where I start. And
S1: then if I do command J, I can say what
S1: kind of desk is he using. And of course, yeah,
S1: I could just go over here and read and look
S1: for the desk. So he says fully Jarvis, stand up
S1: desk again. I could just ask the AI and it
S1: could look, this page could have been 200 pages long, right?
S1: And I don't have the time to look for it,
S1: or I don't want to do a command F and
S1: find it. Whatever. Um, again, I can go into more detail.
S1: What kind of cameras does he shoot on? Look at that. Zv-e10.
S1: I haven't even heard of that one. Photography. Yeah. iPhone
S1: 15 Pro. Just. You could just dive into content in
S1: and out of content however you want and then watch this.
S1: This is this is insane. So if you go to, uh,
S1: first of all, command comma opens the configuration for any app.
S1: That's just a macOS thing. But look, if you go
S1: to I. So a custom global hotkey I have it
S1: set to option enter. Okay, here's the other main use
S1: case for I not being actually on a website or
S1: copying text, or you're on a current browser tab or something,
S1: but instead you just want to ask AI a question.
S1: I have a custom hotkey set for that. It's the
S1: same command. See it's option option down here, but it's
S1: option A, and again I have that shortcut set up
S1: inside of raycast. So watch this Option A it pops
S1: up my thing. So I do a command n I'm
S1: in a new I session. This is exactly the same
S1: as going to like ChatGPT and starting a new session.
S1: Except for again, you're doing it from raycast instead and
S1: I didn't type raycast and then type something in and
S1: press command or and then pressed option enter. In fact
S1: I just did option A, because option A is the
S1: universal hotkey for opening my AI conversations. Okay, so from
S1: here I could just do any regular AI search that
S1: I'm in an AI conversation. Okay, next thing I want
S1: to talk about I'm going to close that out is
S1: I want to talk about the options. So when you
S1: open raycast. So I'm just going to open raycast. And
S1: if you do command comma this is a universal way
S1: to get to settings in Mac OS. So if I
S1: go to the settings and I go to AI, I
S1: can see that I can edit my universal hotkey for
S1: pulling up AI, which is like I said, option enter.
S1: You could change your model here and it could use
S1: whatever model you want. And again I chat right there
S1: is option A and send message is returned. You can
S1: configure all this. But then if I go to configure
S1: I commands look at all the different commands that I
S1: could use. Search AI commands send screen to I chat.
S1: You can send your current screen to AI and it'll
S1: tell you what's on the screen. Change the tone to casual.
S1: Explain the story explanation. Okay. This is this is a
S1: really cool one. Um, so I'm on this tab story explanation.
S1: This will create a story explanation of the web page
S1: that I'm on. And I wrote this one. This is
S1: actually a fabric integrated one. And it explains it in
S1: a way like you could explain to your grandmother or
S1: whatever and basically have it be a narrative to simplify
S1: whatever it is that you're working on. Um, but that's
S1: just one that I created. So create tone to friendly.
S1: Most of these are actually just already built in. This
S1: one was a fabric one that I added myself. Extract predictions,
S1: extract the primary problem, extract wisdom, find bugs in code,
S1: fix the spelling and grammar. This is all just naturally
S1: built in. And most importantly, create an AI command. Okay,
S1: if I do see a I create AI command. So
S1: now we have a command name. We have a prompt,
S1: we have the model we want to use, and we
S1: can go and save that thing. It's insane. So you
S1: can just keep adding to this list that you see here.
S1: And look at this. If you're worried about sending this
S1: off to a third party, look at this. You could
S1: run it with Obama. If you have Obama running, which
S1: I tend to have a llama running. I don't know
S1: if I have it yet, but I just restarted Obama now,
S1: I could use any of these same things that you're doing.
S1: Improve the writing. Make it longer, make it shorter, whatever
S1: you could call olama with local models and not send
S1: it off anywhere to do that same stuff. So it's
S1: whatever integration you want to use. But long story short,
S1: all of this comes down to raycast being a universal
S1: launcher that allows you to do all this different stuff
S1: we've talked about. All right, so that was just a
S1: few of the main ones that I wanted to talk
S1: about and share with you. Like I said, you can
S1: deep dive in rabbit Hole on this and you will
S1: come back many, many hours later or days later like
S1: I did. And I haven't even started fully configuring all
S1: my AI stuff. I'm actually building a full extension for
S1: fabric to just have the commands for all the patterns
S1: right there. So it's like fuzzy finding. As I'm typing.
S1: I could type in the pattern name and it will
S1: autocomplete for me, and it will run that against the
S1: web page or against the clipboard text or whatever. So
S1: I haven't even started messing with this thing fully, and
S1: I'm already like a hundred times more useful than I
S1: was at the end of 24 before I started this process.
S1: So again, invoke think action happens. And most importantly of
S1: all the extensions, the AI integration have AI right here
S1: available here type type type type option enter and you
S1: are inside of AI. You do command J to continue
S1: the conversation or if you want to start from scratch,
S1: you just do command a. If you set that up
S1: as your alias for AI. And I want to show
S1: you that real quick. So showing you real quick how
S1: to set these up. So basically those are hotkeys. Alias
S1: means you're already inside of raycast. Hotkey means you're invoking
S1: it straight from the operating system. So you're just at
S1: the keyboard, you're invoking it. So if I scroll down
S1: here you're going to see a bunch of these. Option
S1: A is for I chat. So that's like look, so
S1: I'm out here, I'm not doing anything and I do
S1: option A and I'm inside of I with a regular chat.
S1: So that's option A. But I have this for C
S1: which is cursor, I have it for B which is browser,
S1: I have it for lots of different things. So I
S1: have hotkeys configured for lots of different stuff. Again you
S1: can go and set this up to your heart's content. Right.
S1: And and if you are a massive customizer like me,
S1: you're going to want to do a ton of these.
S1: So I've got a ton of these for aliases. I've
S1: got a ton of these for hotkeys. So T.W. this
S1: is thinkers work. Oh yeah. This one's crazy. So look
S1: at this t w tab. This is a fabric one
S1: for thinkers work. This is kind of a diversion. But
S1: whatever I could do this video for like five hours.
S1: So thinkers work. So if I put in Bertrand Russell
S1: in here, it's going to give me a one line
S1: encapsulation of what Bertrand Russell is about. It's going to
S1: give you his most important ideas, the most important works,
S1: to go look at the most important quotes and advice.
S1: So that's a fabric pattern integrated in. And the reason
S1: I'm showing it to you now is because T.W. is
S1: how I get there. So basically I don't have to
S1: type thinkers work or even start typing it. I could
S1: just do T.W. so basically I don't have to type
S1: thinkers work or even start typing it. I could just
S1: do T.W. tab and it automatically knows that. In fact,
S1: I think I could go T.W. space as well. So T.W.
S1: space or T.W. Tab also gets you there. And you
S1: could just put anybody in here and it will summarize
S1: their work and give you back that synopsis. All right.
S1: So that's what I wanted to share with you basically
S1: my new religion of raycast and specifically how to use
S1: AI within raycast. And we'll see you in the next one.
S1: Take care.