Quicklinks are one of
my favorite Raycast features. They're so easy to set up, but can still save you a lot of time. So if you're not using them yet, here are seven ideas to get you started. You can actually use Quicklinks to open specific paths in Finder. So in my case, I open the
downloads folder all the time, so I created a Quicklink for that. And you can see here in Raycast, when you paste in a path for Finder, Raycast automatically detects it. If you have
Dropbox installed on your Mac, a good idea could be to put in a link for a Dropbox
folder that you visit often, and that way you can
access your folders on the cloud through quick links. One cool thing about Quicklinks is that it supports arguments. So that allows you to
create more dynamic Quicklinks, such as this one
to check the Yahoo stocks. You can do that just by
inserting a query in the URL, and that's all there is to it. You can create a Quicklink
to fi synonyms on Thesaurus using an argument
just like we did before, but to make it even more streamlined, you can turn on the
past selected text as argument when using it through a hotkey. This way, whenever
you're writing something and you wanna look for
synonyms of a particular word, you can just
select it, press your hotkey, and you'll get your results. This next one is one of my favorite ones that was actually a
recommendation on Twitter, so shout out Winter for that one, which is a Quicklink
to tweet the selected text. All I have to do is create a Quicklink and add a hotkey to it. And with the same technique as before, I can select the text, press my hotkey, and it's ready to tweet. Quicklinks get even more powerful when you can specify
which app you want to open them in. So here's how I can create a Quicklink that opens an Apple Music Station directly in the music app. This last one is quite
fun, but it's also super complex. So I've just made this change in the Spotify extensions search command that makes it so the deeplink supports some additional context. And with that, you
can now create a Quicklink that accepts a
query, which passes it through to the deeplink and
finally opens the extension, which now means that
when I assign a hotkey to it alongside the pass
selected text as value, I can just select
some text, press my hotkey, and it will launch the
Spotify extension search command with my query filled in. So these are just some ideas to get you started with Quicklinks. As you can see, they're super modular and you can tailor them however you want. If you end up using Quicklinks, then let us know in the comments because I'm super curious to know what you're gonna do with them.