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Tried raycast but realised you can’t customise the GUI the way you can with Alfred – I have Alfred set up so it only takes up a minimal amount of space in the top corner of the screen (ala Spotlight pre-Yosemite).

Submitted feedback to the team but they were pretty dismissive about it.

I only use Alfred for the clipboard history. Raycast looks like a nightmare unfortunately.

It is not, the whole "stateful app in a launcher" paradigm is very clunky and slow in practice and it can't handle files and incoming text in any meaningful way. But hey, they have an AI and subscriptions! This is what happens when you take VC money.