I’ve been using Raycast for a bit over a week now, and continue to be thoroughly impressed by it. More than ever before, I’m finding myself keeping my hands on the keyboard and not having to use the mouse. Anyways, I needed to do some date calculations this morning and thought I’d give them a try in Raycast, just to see what would happen. I was pleasantly surprised to see that my initial, simple query of “today - april 5” gave me a solid answer:

I was even more pleasantly surprised to see that adding “in days” actually returns the number of days between now and April 5:

The reverse of those queries also works, so asking what “50 days from today” is results in April 5:

Finally, just to get a bit cute with it, I dropped in “working days to april 5”…

…and it worked! 🤯

In the great scheme of things, this is just a small affordance, but it’s little things like this that move a piece of software from being good to being great.