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How do you manage code snippets? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/programming@programming.dev
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Do you keep them in your IDE, or elsewhere? Do you have an app for that? Are they easily shared?

I realized I have no system at all but could use one to make it easier to find code I've written and might need again some day.

By snippets, I am referring to any chunk of code / text in any format or language, of any length.

Thanks!

EDIT A DAY LATER: Thanks you all! Reading all these ideas, I got inspired to create my own little web app. Wish me luck... :)

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would recommend looking into personal knowledge management. I manage mine in Obsidian and treat snippets like permanent notes

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe not something you intended, but your phrasing has me curious if Obsidian has some sort of temporary note? I can imagine some use cases.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Temporary note in terms of auto delete after a time? Although the manual Zettelkasten workflow intends you to delete your temporary notes by hand, it is pretty easy to automate this in Obsidian. Personally I have some actions for meeting minutes and notes on people to be moved to designated folders, but the same principle could be applied to create an action to delete any note older than X days

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, and you are right that automation wouldn’t be hard… although if I’m setting up that automation I’ll fail to commit to the deletion and just move the files to an archive folder. 😳

    I only adopted Obsidian recently and only because I liked the idea of the data being stored as plain text files. I really haven’t adopted any system, just replaced Apple Notes.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hmmm, I am using Logseq for that kind of note rn, but don't really like the way it handles code. I assume that's a markdown problem, not a Logseq one, but I should look again.

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