Raycast macOS: Thay the Spotlight va Alfred hoan toan

Raycast da phat trien tu mot launcher don gian thanh mot productivity platform toan dien cho macOS, tich hop sau voi he dieu hanh va cung cap hang chuc tinh nang qua extensions. Voi thiet ke hien dai, hieu suat cao va ecosystem mo rong, Raycast dang tro thanh lua chon hang dau de thay the Spotlight va Alfred.

Tai sao chon Raycast thay vi Spotlight/Alfred?

He thong extensions phong phu: Hon 1000 extensions chinh thuc va cong dong
Tich hop AI sau: Raycast AI mang lai kha nang chat, viet va tu dong hoa cong viec
Giao dien hien dai: Thiet ke dep, mut ma va de tu chinh
Hieu suat cao: Khoi dong nhanh, tieu thu tai nguyen thap
Lien tuc cap nhat: Equipat phat trien hoat dong voi ban cap nhat thuong xuyen

Cac tinh nang cot loi cua Raycast

1. Launcher va tim kiem nhanh

Raycast thay the hoan toan chuc nang tim kiem va khoi chay ung dung:

Tim kiem ung dung, file, bookmark, history va cac noi dung he thong
Khoi chay ung dung voi phim tat tu chinh (mac dinh: Option + Space)
Tich hop voi clipboard history, snippet manager va quicklinks
Ho tro cac lenh he thong nhu empty trash, sleep, restart, etc.

2. Raycast AI – Tro ly AI tich hop san

Mot trong nhung diem manh lon nhat cua Raycast la AI built-in:

Chat voi AI: Hoi dab ve bat ki chu de nao, viet email, tao noi dung
AI Commands: Tao va luu tru cac prompt thuong dung de tai su dung
Context awareness: AI co the doc noi dung man hinh, chon van ban va cung cap goi y lien quan
Model lua chon: Ho tro nhieu mo hinh AI khac nhau bao gom GPT-4, Claude va cac mo hinh open source

Tham khao chi tiet tai Raycast AI Official Page.

3. Window management

Raycast cung cap cac cong cu quan ly cua so manh me:

Resize va di chuyen cua so bang phim tat
Tao va quan ly window snapshots va layouts
Tich hop voi cac cong cu nhu Magnet, Rectangle va Moom
Ho tro multiple monitors va espacos de trabalho

4. Clipboard va snippet management

Raycast thay the hoan toan cac ung dung quan ly clipboard:

Luu tru lich su clipboard voi kha nang tim kiem va loc
Tao va quan ly snippet co the chen nhanh bang tu khoa
Ho tro dynamic snippet voi bien so va vi tri con tro
Tu dong lam sach dinh dang khi dan text (plain text mode)

5. Calendar va task management

Tich hop sau voi calendar va task management:

Xem su kien upcoming ma khong can mo ung dung Calendar
Tao su kien moi nhanh chong bang ngon tu nhien
Tich hop voi Todoist, Things, OmniFocus va cac cong cu task management khac
Hien thi ngay trong launcher khi co su kien sap toi

Cac extensions pho bien va hieu ich

Ecosystem extensions cua Raycast la gi lam no that suc manh me:

Phat trien va lap trinh

GitHub: Tim kiem repositories, tao PR, xem notifications – Xem extension
GitLab: Tich hop hoan toan voi GitLab workflow
Jira: Tao va quan ly issues truc tiep tu Raycast – Xem extension
Docker: Quan ly containers, images va compostions – Xem extension
AWS/GCP/Azure: Truy cap va quan ly dich vu cloud
Postman: Gui va test API requests – Xem extension
VS Code / JetBrains: Mo du an va thuc hien cac lenh IDE

Thiet ke va sang tao

Figma: Tim kiem va mo file thiet ke – Xem extension
Adobe Creative Cloud: Truy cap vao cac ung dung va file
Unsplash / Pexels: Tim kiem va chen hinh anh mien phi ban quyen
Icon finder: Tim kiem va bieu tuong cho thiet ke
Color picker: Chon va quan ly ma mau

Productivity va tieu dung

Notion: Tim kiem va tao trang trong Notion workspace – Xem extension
Google Workspace: Truy cap Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets – Xem extension
Spotify / Apple Music: Kiem soat phat nhac va xem playlist
Timer & Stopwatch: Dem thoi gian lam viec va pomodoro
Weather: Xem thong tin thoi tiet hien tai va du bao
System stats: Giam sat CPU, memory, disk va network usage

Cai dat va thiet lap Raycast

Buoc 1: Tai va cai dat

Tai Raycast tu raycast.com hoac qua Homebrew: brew install --cask raycast
Mo ung dung va hoan thanh qua trinh thiet lap ban dau
Cung cap quyen truy cap can thiet (Accessibility, Automation, Full Disk Access)

Buoc 2: Tu chinh phim tat

De thay the Spotlight hoan toan:

Vao Raycast Settings Hotkeys
Thay doi “Show Raycast” thanh Option + Space (phim tat mac dinh cua Spotlight)
Tat Spotlight trong System Settings Spotlight Keyboard Shortcuts

Buoc 3: Cai dat extensions quan trong

Mot so extensions nen cai dat ngay tu dau:

Raycast AI (da co san)
Clipboard History
Snippets
Window Management
Calendar
GitHub (neu ban la dev)
Google Workspace (neu ban su dung Google apps)

Buoc 4: Toi uu hieu suat

De dam bao Raycast luon nhanh va mut:

Tat cac extensions khong su dung thuong xuyen
Giam so luong muc trong clipboard history neu can
Su dung che do “Minimal” trong giao dien neu muon tiet kiem tai nguyen
Thuong xuyen kiem tra va cap nhat extensions

Ket luan

Raycast khong chi la mot ung dung launcher thay the – no la mot productivity platform hoan chinh co the thay doi cach ban lam viec tren macOS. Voi su ket hop cua tinh nang manh me, ecosystem extensions phong phu va tich hop AI sau sac, Raycast cung cap trai nghiem tot hon dan ke so voi ca Spotlight va Alfred.

Doi voi nhung nguoi muon toi uu hoa workflow va giam thoi gian sinh vao cac thao tac thuong xuyen, Raycast dang de duoc thu. Bat dau voi phien ban mien phi va kham pha sau hon qua cac extensions va Raycast AI – ban se ngac nhien ve gia tri ma no mang lai cho cong viec hang ngay cua ban.