Maybe I'm hijacking, but I see a generalized problem - how do you keep snippets of text that you use in your browser? My current kludge is to edit long fields

Maybe I'm hijacking, but I see a generalized problem - how do you keep snippets of text that you use in your browser? My current kludge is to edit long fields of text in an external editor via a browser addon, and have the editor save all such edits locally.