Snipt: Long-term memory for coders

http://forrst.com/posts/Snipt_Long_term_memory_for_coders-YDo

by nicksergeant • 15 years ago

61 31 15 years ago

forrst.com

Koldark• 15 years ago

Isn't that what Evernote is for?

nicksergeant10• 15 years ago

Evernote doesn't do syntax highlighting, from what I remember. Also, can I make a note public if I want?

(it's been ages since I last tried Evernote)

5l• 15 years ago

You can make notes public, and although you can't do syntax highlighting directly, you can copy already highlighted text into a note.

dasil003• 15 years ago

Personally I'm a big fan of Snippets for OS X (http://www.snippetsapp.com/) The killer feature is Command-Option-V to autocomplete the snippet you want to paste.

I gave up on Evernote because of the totally broken text formatting.

nicksergeant10• 15 years ago

Snippets is a nice app. I tried it a while back. If we can get them to interface with the Snipt API when it's finished, it'd be a great desktop UI for Snipt.

shennyg• 15 years ago

Evernote works but it just isn't the right tool for the right job.

I use Evernote for remembering pretty much everything else but the text formatting really killed it for me, I want raw unformatted text.

I currently use and recommend snippets app but the dropbox syncing between multiple computers isn't the best when there are conflicts.

Snippets app was forked into another project. I cannot remember the name offhand but it looks like it may be going into a better direction.

chrismetcalf• 15 years ago

This plus a vim plugin for browsing snips would be awesome.

nicksergeant10• 15 years ago

As soon as the API is built out (it's already kinda-sorta built: http://snipt.net/api), this should be trivial.

d0m• 15 years ago

On the main page:

  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON my_database.* 
  TO 'my_user'@'localhost'
  IDENTIFIED BY 'my_password' 
  WITH GRANT OPTION;

Couldn't have shown a better example!

rawsyntax• 15 years ago

Personally I prefer to use github gists

nicksergeant10• 15 years ago

Yeah, that's my main competitor. Their API is lacking, though: http://develop.github.com/p/gist.html

So, I'm trying to fill that void.

abraham2• 15 years ago

GitHub beefed up the Gist API in v3: http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/

neuroelectronic• 15 years ago

Just in case you didn't want to use one of the other 1,000,000 options.

iAinsley• 15 years ago

Snippets rocks, but a big time GUI wouldn't be so bad. A killer feature like textexpander would blow the top off snipt.

whackedspinach• 15 years ago

I just took a look at it and was considering buying it. Does it have any sort of cross-computer or cloud synchronization? Or is that how Snipt is different?

MrNibbles• 15 years ago

Looks like a neat service, but browsing the public javascript 'snips' there is a large amount of quite terrible code that i wouldn't recommend anyone uses.

Not that this is in any way detriment to the service itself which looks good, merely a warning.

nicksergeant10• 15 years ago

Yeah, definitely. The site started out as a place where I could organize my (private) command snippets, and kinda went from there. People wanted to make some public.

res0nat0r• 15 years ago

Looks like github gists without the versioning.

x0t• 15 years ago

I don't think you can tag gists. Snipt's searching/tagging looks a little better.

jackolas• 15 years ago

Are the tags parsed our from the tools used or user provided?

Raphael• 15 years ago

Signed in with OpenID, and Snipt prompts me to make a new account. I don't wanna.

nicksergeant10• 15 years ago

OpenID is going up in a smoke for the new version. Back to traditional accounts.

avidal• 15 years ago

Mind explaining why? I don't really need yet another account.

cmelbye• 15 years ago

I truly do not understand the point of OpenID if the website is just going to ask you to provide sign up information that it could've just asked for from your OpenID provider.

abraham2• 15 years ago

It would be awesome if you could sort by the number of favorites.

follower• 15 years ago

I like the "long-term memory for coders" tag line--it gets the idea across well.

I've been working on a project--Labradoc--that approaches a similar idea from a different direction: http://www.labradoc.com/

My goal is to encourage developers to take notes as they go to both help them and help other people looking for the information later. From my own experience I've found a "lab notebook" style of site has been valuable both for me and other people. And it tends to be pretty low overhead.

A longer term feature I was considering was making individual entries browsable as "tips" for particular technologies but that's still on the TODO list for me.

I think there's some interesting areas to explore in the spaces between services like GitHub gists, Stack Overflow and Instructables.

Snipt: Long-term memory for coders

Related Stories