I use very little of Raycast’s vast feature set, so I’ve considered switching to Spotlight and just keeping Raycast around just for its excellent emoji picker.

Enter @nileane@nileane.fr’s new TinyStart app. It’s a way more focused launcher that also comes with a great emoji picker — way faster than Spotlight too:

Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don’t need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.

I’m gonna give it a go!

@jarrod A few things I notice right away that it gets right…

• The window is magnetically snapped to the center, top/bottom, left/right, or corners. Yay!
• You can rename pretty much any saved result to your liking. Great for folders that might be named something weird within your folder structure.
• Easily add your favorite search engine (or site-specific search) and set it to the default search fallback.

@jarrod if I can find a good clipboard manager/paster and something to rearrange windows I might try the same!

@alpower Magnet’s pretty great for window management if you don’t like the built-in stuff. Clipboard management…I’m still on Raycast for that. But I think the built in one would be fine after I set a quicker keyboard shortcut.

@jarrod I love the whole clipboard history that Raycast gives - super useful to copy a bunch of things sequentially then paste what you need. Will check out Magnet thanks!

@alpower have you tried the clipboard history built into Spotlight in Tahoe? (Command-Space, Command-4)

@alpower P.S. Your site is so beautiful and clean!

@jarrod ah thanks - that means a lot! If I wrote on it as much as I tinkered with it, I’d have thousands of posts by now 😅

@alpower I feel that in my soul. 😆