What makes Raycast special?

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I suppose one could ask, “why do I need a car when I could just walk everywhere?”. And there are cases where using one’s legs is good enough.

I use Alfred. I also use a program called NeoFinder to catalog my photographs (I’ve been cataloging images for a long time …).

To find an image I can:

  1. Invoke Spotlight.
  2. Type “NeoFinder”. (Or several characters)
  3. Press Enter.
  4. Once NeoFinder launches invoke keyword search.
  5. Type in my keyword.
  6. Press Enter.

Or:

  1. Invoke Alfred.
  2. Type “Neo <keyword>”.
  3. Press Enter.

And that’s just one example.

A different (non Raycast/Alfred/Launchbar/Quicksilver/Butler) example. I got along using just macOS for window management for quite some time. And I still could. But having utilities to do so automagically makes my computing experience that much better.

When I lived in the city we had neighbors who were retired. The walked to the market, to restaurants, to concerts, to the doctor. They had little need for a car (they occasionally rented one). If the tools provided by macOS work for you then that is great. If you find that you could benefit by extending the native OS capabilities, then there are tools available to do so.

Despite what some may think choice is good. :slight_smile:

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