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Snipt: Long-term memory for coders
- Koldark 15y agoIsn't that what Evernote is for?
- nicksergeant 15y agoEvernote 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 15y agoYou can make notes public, and although you can't do syntax highlighting directly, you can copy already highlighted text into a note.
- dasil003 15y agoPersonally I'm a big fan of Snippets for OS X (http://www.snippetsapp.com/ 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.
- nicksergeant 15y agoSnippets 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.
- prudnikov 15y agoDo you need an integration with the Snipt to have your snippets available online? Any other reasons?
- shennyg 15y agoEvernote 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 15y agoThis plus a vim plugin for browsing snips would be awesome.
- nicksergeant 15y agoAs soon as the API is built out (it's already kinda-sorta built: http://snipt.net/api http://snipt.net/api), this should be trivial.
- chrismetcalf 15y agoThis plus a vim plugin for browsing snips would be awesome.
- d0m 15y agoOn 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 15y agoPersonally I prefer to use github gists
- nicksergeant 15y agoYeah, that's my main competitor. Their API is lacking, though: http://develop.github.com/p/gist.html http://develop.github.com/p/gist.html So, I'm trying to fill that void.
- abraham 15y agoGitHub beefed up the Gist API in v3: http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/ http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/
- nicksergeant 15y agoAh, nice! Hadn't seen that.
- neuroelectronic 15y agoJust in case you didn't want to use one of the other 1,000,000 options.
- iAinsley 15y agoSnippets rocks, but a big time GUI wouldn't be so bad. A killer feature like textexpander would blow the top off snipt.
- whackedspinach 15y agoI 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 15y agoLooks 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.
- nicksergeant 15y agoYeah, 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 15y agoLooks like github gists without the versioning.
- x0t 15y agoI don't think you can tag gists. Snipt's searching/tagging looks a little better.
- jackolas 15y agoAre the tags parsed our from the tools used or user provided?
- nicksergeant 15y agoUser provided.
- Raphael 15y agoSigned in with OpenID, and Snipt prompts me to make a new account. I don't wanna.
- nicksergeant 15y agoOpenID is going up in a smoke for the new version. Back to traditional accounts.
- avidal 15y agoMind explaining why? I don't really need yet another account.
- nicksergeant 15y agoOpenID is a PITA to support on the backend. It's another layer that doesn't need to exist. A bunch of providers are doing away with OpenID, like Slicehost, 37signals, etc. From a UX perspective, I'm not convinced OpenID is any more convenient than a traditional u/p. I use 1Password to manage my logins, it works perfectly. For many other reasons, everyone should be using 1P or some password management program, as well.
- nicksergeant 15y agoActually, Slicehost might not be getting rid of it. Not sure where I got that info.
- cmelbye 15y agoI 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.
- abraham 15y agoIt would be awesome if you could sort by the number of favorites.
- follower 15y agoI 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/ 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.