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Koldark
Isn't that what Evernote is for?
nicksergeant
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
You can make notes public, and although you can't do syntax highlighting directly, you can copy already highlighted text into a note.
dasil003
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.

nicksergeant
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.
prudnikov
Do you need an integration with the Snipt to have your snippets available online? Any other reasons?
shennyg
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.

[dead] chrismetcalf
This plus a vim plugin for browsing snips would be awesome.
d0m
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!
neuroelectronic
Just in case you didn't want to use one of the other 1,000,000 options.
iAinsley
Snippets rocks, but a big time GUI wouldn't be so bad. A killer feature like textexpander would blow the top off snipt.
whackedspinach
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
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.

nicksergeant
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
Looks like github gists without the versioning.
x0t
I don't think you can tag gists. Snipt's searching/tagging looks a little better.
jackolas
Are the tags parsed our from the tools used or user provided?
Raphael
Signed in with OpenID, and Snipt prompts me to make a new account. I don't wanna.
nicksergeant
OpenID is going up in a smoke for the new version. Back to traditional accounts.
avidal
Mind explaining why? I don't really need yet another account.
nicksergeant
OpenID 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
Actually, Slicehost might not be getting rid of it. Not sure where I got that info.
cmelbye
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.
abraham
It would be awesome if you could sort by the number of favorites.
follower
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.