David Sparks

Code Collector Pro & Snippley have their pros and cons. I don’t love either one, so it’s a lesser of 2 evils situation as for me personally, the other options are even worse. Here I break down what I want out of snippet storage and how these 2 apps stack up.

First up! Snippley. It’s lightweight, bare bones and does what it does well. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say it’s superior to Code Collector Pro. For one reason and one reason only. Snippley allows you to create Snippet Groups, Within that many snippets and within the snippet; a headline, description as many code and note entries as needed. It’s this aspect that sets Snippley appart from Code Collector Pro.

As you can see in the image above, theres snippet groups on the right. In the top pannel there are different snippets. In the bottom panel you can see the headline bolded, a description below that. After the description is where the good stuff is. you can see a note, some code which i can designate what kind of code it is, javascript, css, php etc. More notes and more code if needed. just simply click on the add note/code button and thats all there is to it.

Code Collector does one thing that is very much needed which is Import and Export. allowing you to sync up multiple coppies. Very valuable. You can also enable sharing which allows you to send links to your code which is pretty cool. It also supports more languages than Snippley does. Not the ened of the world, Snippley has a plain text area, but I think its pretty stupid that i “have” to label html as plain text. I’d like to label it as html with text coloring. I end up naming html php sometimes just to take advantage of the color highlighting even if i need to add a note saying its html and not php hah.

So these are my complaints. Both applications fall short in my opinion and this severely pisses me off. I’ve really had it with apps that are designed for something and don’t have a very important or helpful feature.
CCP lacks a great helpful feature that I cant live without more or less and Snippley is lacking a fundamental app function of import/export which leaves me so dumbfounded I end up ranting about it on tumblr.

So this is my pettition/cry for help. One of these 2 developers please fix your software to do what I’m in need of. Preverablly CCP since theres a better network with the sharing feature and support having an actual site instead of a google code download link and links to 2 developers who have no personal sites.

If anybody out there knows of another Snippet app that will save the day for me. Please let me know! send me a message on twitter. @DigitalSkraps