Raycast Notes makes it frictionless to organize your thoughts from anywhere on your Mac. You can track your todos, take notes during meetings, and save your next big idea. It’s designed to be lightweight with Markdown support and is just a keystroke away with a deep integration into the rest of Raycast’s ecosystem.

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Our note-taking experience comes with three commands:

1. Raycast Notes: This command simply toggles the Notes window.
2. Create Note: This command creates a new note and opens the window. It’s ideal to capture your thoughts with zero friction.
3. Search Notes: This command allows you to search all your notes by title and content, making it easy to revisit previous notes.

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Pro Tip: We recommend assigning a hotkey to the Raycast Notes command for quicker access. A commonly used hotkey is ⌥ N.

Open Raycast → Settings → Extensions → Raycast Notes to record a hotkey.

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Creating

It all starts by creating a new note. It can be your next big idea or just a way to jot down some thoughts. If you have Raycast Notes already open, you can click the plus button in the top-right corner of the toolbar (or press ⌘ N) to create a new note.

Create a new note

Alternatively, you can use the Create Note command in Raycast’s root search, which is globally available. After you have successfully created a new note, you can start writing. The first line of the note is used as the title of the note, which is shown in the toolbar.

Editing

Raycast Notes offers a lightweight editing experience that allows you to format your note with ease.

Format a note

There are four ways to format your notes:

1. By typing Markdown syntax like starting a line with # for a heading
2. By pressing keyboard shortcuts like ⌘ B to make text bold
3. By performing the Format action via the Action Panel (⌘ K)
4. By activating the Format Bar on the bottom of the window

Below is an overview of all formatting options and their corresponding keyboard shortcut and Markdown syntax.