James Mulholland

Hey, I’m James 👋 I spend my time making APIs at Attio.

[@mulholo](https://x.com/@mulholo)

[jmulholland.com](http://jmulholland.com/)

## Favorite feature

**Clipboard History**

I use the clipboard all the time to grab code snippets, URLs, screenshots and whatever else I need. I love how you can search screenshots by the text in them too; makes finding things super easy.

**My Schedule**

I auto-join every meeting I have from Raycast. I haven’t clicked an in-calendar link in months.

**Calculator (for conversions)**

I often need to do little conversions throughout the day (e.g. working out what the recent 40°C temperature in London is in Fahrenheit) and love that Raycast is smart about picking those conversion questions up.

**Window Management**

Window management is probably my most used feature. I use it daily to move my windows around into, and match the keybindings to Vim so I can do so seamlessly.

**File Search**

I rarely open Finder these days. Everything is done from Raycast’s file search.

**Toggle System Appearance**

I develop lots of UI at [Attio](https://attio.com/), where having good looking light and dark modes is really important to us. I switch back and forth multiple times a day.

## Most used Commands, Quicklinks, Scripts and Snippets

**Quicklinks (to query my database)**

I have a quicklink to open a SQL console into my development/production database. I can type “Query Cloud DB” or “Query Cloud DB --production” to open the relevant page in the Google Cloud dashboard.

**Auto Open and Close Slack**

This one I’m quite proud of. I’ve set up an Apple Shortcut so that I can open Slack from Raycast, then automatically close it four minutes later.

## Top extensions from the Store

**[VSCode Project Manager](/content/MarkusLanger/vscode-project-manager/index.html)**

I use the VSCode project manager to save me finding the right project to open. Very useful when jumping between my different repos.

**[Cleanshot](/content/Aayush9029/cleanshotx/index.html)**

All my screenshots and screen recordings get done through [Cleanshot](https://cleanshot.com/). I use the Raycast extension to open the right kind of screenshot without having to remember a dozen keyboard shortcuts.

[**Random Data Generator**](/content/loris/random/index.html)

I use Random Data Generator to auto-generate handy bits of info like fake names and UUIDs.

[**Linear**](/content/raycast/linear/index.html)

I don’t tend to browse issues in the Linear Extension, but it is great for speedy bug reports.

## Aliases, hotkeys, and fallback searches

I have some slightly funny-looking commands set up due to the fact that I have one key on my [Ergodox](https://ergodox-ez.com/) configured to `⌘ ^ ⌥ ⇧` (sometimes called “Hyper”) and one to `^ ⌥ ⇧`. This means that all my shortcuts require no more than 2 keys to be pressed.

- `^ ⌥ ⇧ + C`  Show clipboard viewer
- `^ ⌥ ⇧ + D`  Define word
- `⌥ + G`  Search currently highlighted text with Google

**Window Management**

- `⌘ ^ ⌥ ⇧ + M`  Maximise window
- `⌘ ^ ⌥ ⇧ + H`  Align window left half
- `⌘ ^ ⌥ ⇧ + L`  Align window right half
- `⌘ ^ ⌥ ⇧ + J`  Align window bottom half
- `⌘ ^ ⌥ ⇧ + K`  Align window top half

## Anything else

I’ve been experimenting with YouTube recently, and made a little video on my Raycast usage!

In my day job at [Attio](https://attio.com/), I’m responsible for the API. I’d be super excited to build out a Raycast Plugin for Attio for super-quick contact creation and other actions.