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Snippets, quicklinks and search shortcuts

Type it once, reuse it everywhere: text that expands from a keyword in any app, links opened by name, and searches run by naming the site.

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Use itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

Snippets

• add snippet ;thx Thanks so much for your help!Type ;thx in any app and it becomes the text
• save a snippet called wifi: correct-horse-batteryKept, found by its name
• make a snippet out of itsave that as a snippetThe last answer kept as a snippet
• paste some text into the paletteCreate snippet is offered first
• import raycast snippets from ~/Downloads/snippets.jsonYour Raycast snippets moved over, keywords included
• snippetsedit my snippetsThe library to search and copy, or as a file to edit
• a snippet with {argument name="who"}Typing its keyword asks for Who in a small panel by the pointer, then types the text; {snippet name="sig"} puts another snippet inside; {clipboard | uppercase} changes a value on the way (uppercase, lowercase, trim, percent-encode, json-stringify)

Quicklinks and searches

• quicklinksedit my quicklinksYour saved places and search templates
• create quicklinknew quicklink github https://github.comThe editor, blank or filled in with what you said; create snippet opens a blank snippet the same way
• google week rust asyncstanding desk google monthA search named before or after your words, shown in the palette's list as you type (Google · past month: standing desk); ↵ on it opens the results in Jevie's own browser, in the palette
• gh jevieyt lofihn rustamz usb c cableA site's short keyword then your words is its search, opened on ↵ (words that pick, like gh best rust frameworks, are still weighed)
• dune !imdbjevie !ghusb c cable !aAny of the 10,899 DuckDuckGo and Kagi bangs, written after your words (a leading ! runs a shell command)
• bing notchdownload vlcA one-word search name is offered too, under Google's rows, since a word like download is often just a word
• githubgoogleA site's name alone lists every search shortcut on it (GitHub Code, GitHub Issues …); ↵ on one, or reaching it with ⌘J ⌘K, writes its name in the field, then add your words (walk past it and what you typed comes back); a site whose search reads a time lists that too: github month is GitHub · past month, reddit week Reddit · past week (never a search for the word week)
• each search row wears its site's icon, read from Chrome's own icons (a site Chrome never showed keeps the magnifying glass)
• search vision pro on google yearSaid as a sentence
• cats google imagesrust async google past weekGoogle's time filters and images, with nothing saved
• google month standing desk in the phone's barThe same searches and quicklinks on the phone

How it works

A snippet's keyword typed in any app is replaced by its text, with your clipboard put back after. Raycast's placeholders work, so imported Raycast snippets behave the same: the clipboard, date, time, weekday, UUID and cursor position, fill-in arguments (asked for before the text is typed, defaults filled in, Esc leaves the keyword as you typed it), other snippets by name, and modifiers after a bar. Copy in the library copies the text as it would be typed.

A quicklink is a name for a web address, a folder, or a search; say its name with your words and the search runs. Raycast's placeholders work in a link too: {clipboard}, {date format="yyyy-MM-dd" offset="+1d"}, {time}, {uuid} and the modifiers after a bar are filled when it opens, so imported Raycast quicklinks keep working. Deleted snippets and quicklinks come back with Undo.

Limits

• Expansion needs Accessibility permission and never fires in a password field.
• A snippet inside a snippet goes three deep at most; {clipboard offset=1} (an older clipboard item) is not read yet.
• A one-word search name is only offered, never run on its own.

Where it's kept

~/.jevie/snippets.json and ~/.jevie/quicklinks.json, also as snippets.md and quicklinks.md in ~/.jevie/self (your files, each change a commit).

In Jevie, help snippet answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 8 November 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us