April 18, 2023
Y’all use Raycast? I do, but I’m a little itty bitty baby user. Like I just have it replace Spotlight because it seems to work equally well as Spotlight for finding files and applications. But then has a few bonus features here and there. I use the commands to move windows around once in a while (but largely still use Moom for that), the emoji search is alright (but not miles better than the built-in thing), the calculator results look nice (but Spotlight does fine at that too).
It’s like I know there are interesting clever things it can do, I just don’t really know about them and have zero muscle memory for reaching for the little things I have seen.
But I’ve nearly started to like one! “Almost Maximize” is a clever window moving feature. Thanks Dave! You can already maximize windows natively, but both the ways do not appeal to me:
“Almost Maximize” has the window take up 90% of the screen, leaving space around it.
I generally prefer that, because the space that it leaves often has little peaks of other windows I might want, or, more importantly, access to icons on the deskop, which there is a decent chance I want to get my hands on (or drag more things to). I’m a super clean desktop guy, so if there are files there, they are actively being used for something.
You can configure “Almost Maximize” to be 90% down to 60%. But if I’m being nitpicky, I actually want like 95%. I usually just want the right side is all.
What I like is that Raycast had the idea to built it in and name it something memorable. But I think my Moom setting is still going to win out for now:
Any Raycast commands you love?
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