Raycast New Notes Feature Available Now
One of the most popular features in Raycast, the extensible keyboard
launcher, has been its floating notes feature. Using a quick keyboard
shortcut, users have been able to summon a window into which they could
type or paste information. Hiding the note and bringing it back was
easy, but there wasn't a lot more to it than that. With the recent
release of Raycast notes in version 1.8.5, floating notes have been
replaced with a new feature.
Raycast notes now support markdown. If you know the syntax, great. If not, the notes window has a toolbar where you can select bold, italic, bullets and so on. It also has "inline code and code blocks, lists that you can indent and reorder, checklists, links and more."
Raycast users without the pro plan can have up to five notes, while pro members get an unlimited number. There are built-in commands for New Notes and Search Notes. If you use the commands frequently, then, like any other command in Raycast, you can assign a hot key to them.
The action pane (⌘+K)l for the Raycast notes command has several choices:
- New note
- Browser notes
- Copy note deep link
- Create Quick link
- Format
- Disable window auto-resizing
- Export (HTML, Markdown, Plain text)
- Recently deleted notes
- Delete
Quick links allow you to open a note with a single keystroke. The notes window may be moved anywhere on the screen. It will stay on top until dismissed.