My Global Raycast Snippets

I use Raycast Snippets to insert text wherever I’m typing. All my snippets start with a ! character so they never trigger by accident.

I used to have a lot more of these but found myself having to look up the trigger keywords for the infrequently-used ones, which was slower than just typing the thing. Here’s what I currently have.

!ultra
Ultrathink and take your time. Use parallel subagents freely and look online if you need to.

I find myself typing this into Claude Code regularly enough that I wanted a snippet for it. It’s pretty much the only “AI prompt” snippet I have now.

!starttodo
We are working on @docs/tasks-todo/ {cursor} . Gather as much context as you need and then continue implementation.

I routinely start new Claude Code sessions like this. Almost all my projects have a docs/tasks-todo folder where I keep markdown files describing implementation plans. After iterating on these implementation plans and heavily editing them, I often have Claude Code implement them across a number of different sessions.

!iso
{date "yyyy-MM-dd"}

Probably my most used snippet. Inserts an ISO date for today.

!gd and !gdos
{date "yyyyMMdd"}-{cursor}-OS

Inserts the important parts of a MoD filename/email subject (which I wrote about in 2013 ). The “OS” suffix is an OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE protective marking , which isn’t always required, hence two separate commands.

!eraf, !ehi and !mob

These insert my two current email addresses and phone number, respectively. My RAF email is in the form name.surname.number@rafac.mod.gov.uk which is far too long to type by hand. I use the others less frequently than I used to because my password manager got better at inserting my details into web forms.

!meet, !zoom and !linkedin

These insert URLs which I use regularly or which are long enough that I struggle to remember them.

  • meet - My meeting booking link. I can use Raycast’s Cal.com integration to get meeting links for my specific types of meeting, but most of the time I just wanna share my “book a meeting” homepage.
  • zoom - The join link for my Zoom personal meeting room.
  • linkedin - Because I can never remember the form of my LinkedIn profile URL.
!a1, !a2 and !ap

Insert the first, second and postcode lines of my home address. Again, I used these much more before my password manager got good at webforms.

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