I've been using Alfred on my Mac for years, but I just discovered Raycast. This could be the new daily driver.
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I want the Ai version of Raycast.
I've been hunting for an Ai I can run on my computer, that does very basic categorization and cataloging of literally EVERYTHING I do on my computer. Basically takes a simple organizing principle, and then "listens" to everything I do. Then at the end of the day or week of organizing, take the catalog of things I've done, written, recorded, links I've saved, creating summaries of documents I've copied or stored, etc, and then retrains the model on it.
All done locally. So that I can search, recall information, ask for images, links, and ideas I've written about in the past, and it pulls them right back from the catalog it created, in the language that I write in.
I haven't found it yet, but I'm going to figure out how to create this if I have to. This is the ultimate dream of highest functionality of Ai, with full privacy and self-hosting as well.
I made the switch from Alfred. A great product!
I love the slick look of Raycast but don’t love that it is VC funded and closed source. I installed in a few months back but haven’t used it much yet. What are you day one impressions now that you are a few hours in the saddle?
Fair points. Are there any (very good) launchers that are open source?
So far, it’s great. After 5+ years with Alfred, there’s some muscle memory to rework, but could be worth it.
Yeah, unfortunately nothing I’ve seen so far. But the fact raycast has brought attention and hype back into the space. I wouldn’t be surprised if a high-quality open source competitor emerges eventually. 🤞