Raycast Notes makes it frictionless to organize your thoughts from anywhere on your Mac. Track todos, save meeting notes, and collect ideas. Designed to be lightweight with Markdown support and just a keystroke away.
Hi all! Nichlas from Raycast here 👋
We’re really excited to finally present our latest feature, Raycast Notes!
We believe it’s a significant improvement over our previous Floating Notes, from which we received so much valuable feedback from all of you 🙏
This project has been super fun and challenging, as we worked hard to keep Raycast Notes as minimal as possible, while adding enough power under the hood to go that extra mile.
We’re all very excited to see how you will take advantage of the new functionality, and we hope you’ll join us in our community to share feedback so we can continue to improve moving forward.
A special thanks to @giedre_blekaite and @michael_nielsen (one of our newest team members), who took on this challenge and delivered beyond my wildest expectations 👏 It was truly inspiring to watch!
Key Changes
🍡 Multiple Notes: The most requested feature, I believe this trickled in 100ms after we published the first version of Floating Notes 😆
🍬 Markdown Syntax: You can now style your content with nice markdown syntax. Headings, links, tasks, code blocks, and much more (full list here).
🔍 Search Notes Command: We added a new command inside of Raycast that lets you quickly search, preview, and open notes.
🍫 Menu Bar Access: Sometimes, it’s OK to click around with the mouse, so we added a menu bar icon, that you can enable in Raycast Settings for quick access, and while you’re there, set up a hotkey for it as well ⌨️
Check out our quick tutorial here to get started with Raycast Notes: https://youtu.be/6knS3y39f7k
And here’s a Raycast Pro promo code for you: TAKE-NOTE-30 (30% off for Raycast Pro)
Enjoy 🫶
This looks like a fantastic upgrade, @nichlaswa! The multiple notes feature is something I've been looking forward to—especially with Markdown support.
How do you see this impacting the workflow of users who are already familiar with the previous Floating Notes? Also, any thoughts on potential integrations with other tools in the future? Would love to understand how this will fit into a broader productivity setup!
Great job on the launch! Can you share more about the Markdown support feature and how it sets Raycast Notes apart from other note-taking apps?
I recommend Raycast Notes, a handy and lightweight note-taking tool designed to store your ideas quickly and flawlessly right on your Mac. With Raycast Notes, you'll be able to gather ideas, capture tasks, and save meeting notes with minimal effort.
I use Raycast for my day to day life, and the one thing that hindered my love for Raycast was it's notes, now I see this, the new update of notes and it's just one of the best thing that happened, all the things at one place, no need to open 10 different apps, just press the shortcut to woallah, thank you for making this great featrue/product it self.
I've been waiting all year for the pro version of Floating Notes. It's the notes app that I quickly open using a BetterTouchTool finger gesture.* It opens on the right side of my 27" iMac. In the regular version of Floating Notes, I often had notes from several different meetings. I had to copy and paste different notes if I wanted to save them permanently. Now, with the pro version, I can keep separate pages for different topics.
I use another finger gesture to quickly open the Action Panel, which I like for formatting my notes. Floating Notes is not a space for my permanent notes, but it's a place where I can quickly jot down and access notes until I decide where to save them permanently. By the way, Zoom Workplace has a similar floating notes feature that I also use mostly for permanent meeting notes.
My biggest wish for Floating Notes is for Raycast AI to be able to integrate with it.
*My finger gesture trigger also automatically opens the Browse Notes overlay when I first open Floating Notes. I do this because I usually switch between notes when I open Floating Notes. It saves me one less click and keyboard shortcut.
>What would you like to do? What are you use-cases for AI within Notes?
@thomaspaulmann , I would like the AI to answer questions or generate content based on my saved notes.
(I couldn't get my reply to post. So wrote it here.)
Now that I use Raycast for just about everything that I need to do FAST FAST FAST...a quick way to save a fleeting thought is just one more way this sneaky little app has wound its tendrils into my very being...and I'm totally OK with that.
As always, it's done with thought and elegance, which is nice.
For a moment I was shocked when the “toggle floating notes window” option was suddenly gone this morning. I thought you had killed my favorite feature and deleted my data in the process 😱
You can’t imagine the relief when I saw that it was just replaced by Raycast Notes and my old notes were still there.
Thanks for making one of Raycast’s best features even better!
Congrats! A well-designed, user-friendly gadget!
Where is the data from Notes stored? It would be great if it could be saved to existing apps like Bear or Notion that I already use.
