Save your code snippets with Snippely

I am currently waiting for FeedReader to finish downloading some enclosures from a feed I am subscribed to. In the meanwhile I though it would be nice letting you know what a great tool Snippely is. Though it is in its developing stage it comes handy for all developers, designers, etc. out there that have a piece of code and want to store it somewhere so that it will be accessible later when needed. It is incredibly simple and straight forward: it lets you create some groups and in those groups you can add snippets. A snippet will have two main parts: the actual code and the note. It has a built in feature for applying different syntax highlighting for PHP, CSS, Ruby and JavaScript. So, as I said it is pretty straight forward and due to its minimalistic interface looks quite nice.

However, it misses a search function, as well as a import/export option. Of course it would have been awesome for it to be able to store the snippets on the web so that they would be accessible for you by using an account or such. Unfortunately it lacks the HTML syntax coloring. Of course there is a lot of work on it still but thankfully it is out there for us to enjoy so let’s be patient with the developers.

Oh, and by the way, to make up for that import/export thing you could do it manually by following the path to the SQLite database file:

“C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\com.snippely.xxx\Local Store\application.db”. And there you have it; you can now be assured that your precious snippets won’t be lost if you decide to work on another computer or any other scenario.

Here are some screenshots to help you make an impression:

Download: http://code.google.com/p/snippely/downloads/list