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Michael Seibel

Raycast Notes - Fast, light, and frictionless note-taking

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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.

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Nichlas W. Andersen
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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 🫶
Jan
@giedre_blekaite @michael_nielsen @nichlaswa it's amazing to see how you've evolved Floating Notes into something even more powerful while keeping that signature simplicity. Congrats on the launch!
Reony T
@giedre_blekaite @michael_nielsen @nichlaswa HUGE congrats to the team!! I've already setup hotkeys and Favs to specific notes, so when my weekly design critique starts I can immediately have my notes up! Can't wait to have access to this on more platforms/devices, and I'll fully switch from Google Keep! Whenever Raycast for Windows happens, GOT to have Notes with that. 🫶
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@giedre_blekaite @michael_nielsen @nichlaswa @jan_ber Thanks for your kinds words 🫶
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@giedre_blekaite @michael_nielsen @nichlaswa @megaroeny You're a true frictionless note-taker 🫶 Thanks for your support
Calum Webb
The Raycast team killed it on this. Floating notes were already incredibly helpful for jotting something down, but the care for detail the team have put into making them even more powerful is fantastic.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@calum the team put a lot of love and sweat in it. Glad it comes across this way...
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@calum Thank you for your review and your continuous support for Raycast 🫶
Gabe Perez
I keep finding myself trying different note apps just to end up going back to Apple Notes...this might actually make me change though. @nichlaswa do the notes sync to your mobile device or somewhere we can access when not at our Mac? Congrats on the launch!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@nichlaswa @gabe Definitely want to add support for it on mobile. So far only cloud sync in Mac.
Nichlas W. Andersen
Maker
Thanks, and happy to hear @gabe! 👏 as @thomaspaulmann mentioned, mobile support is something we want to add.
Reony T
@nichlaswa @gabe @thomaspaulmann please don't leave Android out of the picture with that! We're always a 2nd class citizen... 😭
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
This project has been in the making for a while, and a few priorities got in the way of shipping it earlier. But today is the day we finally put it out. Obviously we wanted to share it with the Product Hunt community, which helped us since 2020 to launch new features and side projects. Check out the promo code to get 30% off for Raycast Pro as a thank you 🙌
Pedro Duarte
Maker
Personally relieved to see it live 🫶 I hope you all enjoy it as much as we have!
Petr Nikolaev
Maker
@peduarte I thought it would never get out 😂
flo merian
Launching soon!
We love Raycast at Mintlify. We use it to speed up team workflows — it's a time machine. S/O to @thomaspaulmann @peduarte @samuelkraft @rvroo @megan_pearson and team for your amazing work — keep it up!
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@fmerian Thank you for the kind words 🫶 Much appreciated
Petr Nikolaev
Maker
@fmerian thanks for your support! Mintlify is great 🙌
Gleb Shalimov
Wow, that's amazing! I, like many Raycast fans, have been waiting for this
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@khlebobul Thanks for the kind words 🫶 Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any feedback
Nicolas Thiry
Congrats on the launch! Keep pushing you're doing great ❤️ And what a promo video 😍
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@nicolasthy Glad the promo video landed well.
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@nicolasthy Thank you so much for all your positive words 🫶
Louis Lafont
I've found the *perfect* note app for me. This is it. Simple, fast, powerful, but not bloated. Can't go back. The craft this team puts in everything they touch truly is incredible
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@dot_louis Thanks! Happy you like the simplicity which was what we were thriving for.
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@dot_louis Thank you for your kind words; they mean a lot. I'll share your message with the team 🫶
Huzaifa Shoukat
Congrats on the launch! Raycast Notes looks like a sleek, efficient note-taking tool. What's your favorite feature so far? 🚀
Petr Nikolaev
Maker
@ihuzaifashoukat my personal favorite is having those checkboxes ✅. Adding TODO items is so much easier now!
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@ihuzaifashoukat I'm really excited about multi-level bullet points and checkboxes - What about yourself?
Ridd
So excited about this! Thank you 🙏
Petr Nikolaev
Maker
@rmarghevar Thanks for the support!
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@rmarghevar Thank you for your kind words and continuous support 🫶
Artem Konovalov 💎
Launching soon!
I have been testing it for a few months before the release, and I can say I absolutely cannot live without it, It has completely replaced my use of Apple Notes 😁 Looking forward to the iOS app, especially if notes can be shared with it. I’m so happy to see it live. Kudos to the team!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@mattisssa Thanks for testing it and yes, notes for iOS will come.
David Cardenas Codriansky
Congrats on the launch, Raycast Notes team! Raycast Notes sounds perfect for keeping thoughts organized without all the extra steps—really love the lightweight approach. How does it handle large note collections or organizing them over time? Would be cool to see how it keeps things clutter-free as notes pile up!
Petr Nikolaev
Maker
@davidcardenas thanks for the support! Raycast Notes are best for lightweight, ephemeral notes that you don't necessarily need to store for a very long time. If you reach the point where you have a lot of complex documents that you need to organize, it might be best to move them to proper knowledge-based products like Notion. Later we might add some convenience for exporting to other products.
Bon
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.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@bonvisions Notes are stored encrypted, locally with an option to sync them across Macs with an active Pro subscription. You can export notes to Markdown to import in other note-taking apps. For now we don't have plans to sync with other note-taking apps.
Maresch
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!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@maresch Ah yeah, I can feel that shock :D But we took the opportunity to simplify the two commands and combine it into just one. Something we wanted to do for a while. Let us know how you like the new experience!
Maresch
@thomaspaulmann really enjoying it! Just one piece of feedback so far: I’m not a big markdown user and it took me a while to discover the “Show format buttons” option. I’m glad this option exists but it’s a lot of mouse movement for simple formatting which gets tedious. I guess I could just get used to markdown but having formatting options appear when text is selected would be more intuitive for me.
Johan Bakken
It's really good. Well worth the wait.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@johanbakken great to hear!
Yanlin Wu
Congrats on the launch! Excited to see the updates! But I wonder whether you consider launch it on Google Play
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@linda_yanlin Thank you 🫶 Unfortunately, releasing on Google Play is not something we're aiming for at the moment. The first in line would be Windows and iOS before eventually reaching more platforms
Viet Le
damn what a release - any chance Raycast Notes will be integrated with Apple Notes at some point? Maybe a Shortcut workaround?
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@viet_le Thanks for the kind words 🫶 How would that work if you could decide? Just trying to get some more context 🙂
Petr Nikolaev
Maker
@viet_le for what it's worth, we'll add a "Share..." action shortly which will allow exporting to Apple Notes
Lisa Cosme
Congrats @michael_nielsen ✨ inspiring as always!
Per Nielsen Tikær
Maker
@michael_nielsen @lisa_cosme Yes, I agree ― he truly did an amazing job here 🫶
Great addition. Tot has 7 floating notes. Can you please increase the limit to at least 10? 5 is kinda too low.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@wpgaurav Tot is great! We don't have immediate plans to increase the number of notes but with a Pro subscription you get unlimited notes plus a whole lot more: AI, unlimited clipboard history, custom window management, etc.