Robb. Knight.

In 2024 I switched to Raycast from Alfred. I'd been a long time Alfred user but I was tempted by Raycast's shiny UI and better integration with things like Reminders. Turns out I never used the reminders integration or most of the other features Raycast has that are unique.

I had spent time converting some of my workflows to Alfred extensions to varying success. The stricter nature of how Raycast extensions are built is good for Raycast but doesn't help me, a person who just wants to write a script or two and make things do other things. It was far too much effort to make new extensions or fix broken ones (like my Safari one that broke very quickly and I never fixed).

Raycast has always been pushing their AI stuff but it's mostly been out of the way and was basically "plug in your API key to chat to your ai girlfriend favourite model". Except now they're getting into the slop game so I'm out.

I had to write a script to convert my Raycast snippets to Alfreds format which you can find here.

So I'm back on Alfred. It has it's own problems, like aging workflows that don't work scattered around the internet but the gallery does help somewhat with that. I wish it there was a better submission process instead of "post in the forum" and to be honest I'm not in a rush to add more of my own plugins to the gallery, I'll just keep them on my own repo for now. Which is the last thing to do: I need to get setup again with my workflows, get my backup scripts working, and move them over to KnightForge. They'll still be on this page going forward though.