So I got some new nice new wireless headphones. I mostly used some basic AirPods over the past two years, but I work in a big office with lots of people around me. So I started to miss noise cancellation headphones ever since my previous pair broke in early 2023. AirPods are cool, especially if you work on a MacBook and have an iPhone. They aren’t perfect, but nine out of ten times you can effortlessly (automatically?) switch between your devices.

It’s a big pro for AirPods, but I wasn’t planning on spending over 500 euros for AirPods Max. So I settled for a B&W PX7 S2E, which was cheaper and sound good. It has multipoint Bluetooth, which means you can connect it to multiple devices at once. So I connected it to my phone as primary device, and then added my work’s MacBook Pro as a second device. However, this is far from perfect, as it doesn’t automatically connect to the MacBook when it wakes from sleep.

Of course, Apple’s not gonna make the experience as seamless as with AirPods, but I figured I could at least make the process easier than going to Settings > Bluetooth and finding the headphones in the list of devices and click connect. I wanted a shortcut or some effortless method. Now there’s plenty of ways to achieve this, but I did it using Raycast and the extension Toothpick.

First go to the Raycast Store and search for Toothpick (it’s free).

After installing it, you can set your favourite Bluetooth Device in the Extension Settings. Just type the name of the device as it appears in your Bluetooth Devices screen:

Once you’ve done that, go to Extensions in Raycast, find Toothpick in the list and set a hotkey for your favourite device. Then, simply power on your headphones and give it a try.

Now, I’ve also set a hotkey to disconnect the device, but in practice I’ve never needed it, because my laptop is the secondary device. The headphones will always look for my phone first. All I need to do when I get to the office is press my hotkey, hit play on whatever will be my soundtrack for the day. And when I’m done listening, I simply close my MacBook and I can listen on my phone again.

This is the first use case for Raycast I find myself using everyday. So yea, I’ve haven’t scratched the surface of Raycast yet, but still, this feels pretty sweet.