mySnippets
Clippings, Snippets, Files and Code at your fingertips.
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No matter whether you’re creating a new, totally awesome website or putting the finishing touches to your exam or compiling a terrific article that combines all sorts of findings/sources and interviews.
What steals most of your time while doing so and that is no fun at all is the eternal search for recently used passages from texts, code snippets, most recently used documents, whole text modules or a quotation you just copied a few days ago.
You continuously have several documents opened in several programs at the same time and then, you still end up not finding what you were looking for.
This is now a thing of the past thanks to mySnippets. All of your snippets, the files you need, drafts, parts of a text, CSS templates and anything else you still need in order to deliver outstanding results: All of that is now just one single click, one single keystroke away. And everything can be searched and tagged. Coding craftsmen can have syntax coloring whenever they want, too.
Thanks to Quick Look, you have a preview for all documents and you can even easily transfer them later to the program you want with Open Meta tags and by using drag-and-drop.
The best thing about mySnippets lies in its simplicity. You have much better things to do with your time than to be messing around with a non-transparent and an unnecessarily complicated program.
Just switch mySnippets on and get down to work right away. When it comes to intuition, this is as good as it gets. And another nice thing here is that mySnippets only consumes a bare minimum of system resources.
In this way, you have a lot more power and much more time left over for your creative activities.
What steals most of your time while doing so and that is no fun at all is the eternal search for recently used passages from texts, code snippets, most recently used documents, whole text modules or a quotation you just copied a few days ago.
You continuously have several documents opened in several programs at the same time and then, you still end up not finding what you were looking for.
This is now a thing of the past thanks to mySnippets. All of your snippets, the files you need, drafts, parts of a text, CSS templates and anything else you still need in order to deliver outstanding results: All of that is now just one single click, one single keystroke away. And everything can be searched and tagged. Coding craftsmen can have syntax coloring whenever they want, too.
Thanks to Quick Look, you have a preview for all documents and you can even easily transfer them later to the program you want with Open Meta tags and by using drag-and-drop.
The best thing about mySnippets lies in its simplicity. You have much better things to do with your time than to be messing around with a non-transparent and an unnecessarily complicated program.
Just switch mySnippets on and get down to work right away. When it comes to intuition, this is as good as it gets. And another nice thing here is that mySnippets only consumes a bare minimum of system resources.
In this way, you have a lot more power and much more time left over for your creative activities.
Many tasks are the same for all my applications, like how to purchase it, how to register it, how to update it…
You will find manuals for those tasks here: MOApp Manuals
You will find manuals for those tasks here: MOApp Manuals
mySnippets is a Menubar application - thus no Dock icon, no menu.
mySnippets is designed for speed and ease of use.
mySnippets is designed to work best with shortcuts - so you don't have to leave the keyboard while working.
Of course you can fully operate it with your mouse/trackpad - but I recommend to use the keyboard - is much faster.
mySnippets is designed to use almost no system resources when idle and to work for days/weeks/month without restart.
Of course the number of stored and displayed items directly affects the use of resources…
No - mySnippets does not store images or formatted text - by intention!
I know, some apps try to do this…
But they don't store thousands of clippings with using less than 0.1% of your system resources or without crashes or displaying a search result in a blink and how often do you really need a formatted snipping two hours or two weeks later without breaking the current formatting and a manually adjusting it after pasting?
mySnippets is a productivity tool - not a 'cluttertivity' tool :-)
I know that some people out there love it and even need it to have all their used documents scattered over their desktop and hard disk - my goal is not to support clutter - thats why mySnippets does not automatically resolve missing links to used documents and saved files - that's the opposite of being productive…
Have fun!
Be creative!
mySnippets is designed for speed and ease of use.
mySnippets is designed to work best with shortcuts - so you don't have to leave the keyboard while working.
Of course you can fully operate it with your mouse/trackpad - but I recommend to use the keyboard - is much faster.
mySnippets is designed to use almost no system resources when idle and to work for days/weeks/month without restart.
Of course the number of stored and displayed items directly affects the use of resources…
No - mySnippets does not store images or formatted text - by intention!
I know, some apps try to do this…
But they don't store thousands of clippings with using less than 0.1% of your system resources or without crashes or displaying a search result in a blink and how often do you really need a formatted snipping two hours or two weeks later without breaking the current formatting and a manually adjusting it after pasting?
mySnippets is a productivity tool - not a 'cluttertivity' tool :-)
I know that some people out there love it and even need it to have all their used documents scattered over their desktop and hard disk - my goal is not to support clutter - thats why mySnippets does not automatically resolve missing links to used documents and saved files - that's the opposite of being productive…
Have fun!
Be creative!
The most important and used 'section' of mySnippets is of course the 'Clippings view.
Here you will find all clippings you've pasted into the clipboard.
You can easily for such a clipping and even edit it on the fly
You are free to add such a clipping with one click (or shortcut to your archive for later use) - detailed information can be found in the next chapter (Archive - or mySnippets and its long term memory)
mySnippets is designed to best work with keyboard use:
Activate mySnippets by shortcut/with keyboard
Search/Select snippet by shortcut/with keyboard
Navigate thru list of all clippings by shortcut/with keyboard
Copy/Insert selected clipping by shortcut/with keyboard
Of course everything can be done with mouse/trackpad too
Hint: In the menu you will find the used/needed shortcut/keyboard command/key for every task
Here you will find all clippings you've pasted into the clipboard.
You can easily for such a clipping and even edit it on the fly
You are free to add such a clipping with one click (or shortcut to your archive for later use) - detailed information can be found in the next chapter (Archive - or mySnippets and its long term memory)
mySnippets is designed to best work with keyboard use:
Activate mySnippets by shortcut/with keyboard
Search/Select snippet by shortcut/with keyboard
Navigate thru list of all clippings by shortcut/with keyboard
Copy/Insert selected clipping by shortcut/with keyboard
Of course everything can be done with mouse/trackpad too
Hint: In the menu you will find the used/needed shortcut/keyboard command/key for every task
Having the last used snippets at you fingertips is nice and useful.
But sometimes it would be even better to have some snippets for ever at your fingertips.
Thats why mySnippets has a built in long term memory.
Store a clipping with just one click for later use. Even group them and add tags (topics) - so you are able to find them in a blink.
Of course you can also create snippets from scratch with ease.
Hint: You are free to export your complete snippets library to a single file by menu or restore the library from such a file - on a new Mac for example…
But sometimes it would be even better to have some snippets for ever at your fingertips.
Thats why mySnippets has a built in long term memory.
Store a clipping with just one click for later use. Even group them and add tags (topics) - so you are able to find them in a blink.
Of course you can also create snippets from scratch with ease.
Hint: You are free to export your complete snippets library to a single file by menu or restore the library from such a file - on a new Mac for example…
If you're a writer, journalist or student - you may not need it - but when you do some (or extensive) coding - you will love this feature :-)
mySnippets supports customizable syntax coloring for code snippets. Of course mySnippets is not TextMate or Xcode with support for 1732 languages - but you are free to customize the coloring to your needs. Main goal has been to support all languages without hassle and switching and multiple selections and options and tweaks - you get it :-)
To enable syntax coloring for a snippet - simply activate the checkbox inside the table…
Hint for the nerds: Inside the application bundle you will find a .plist file with the basic rules for the coloring - feel free to apply it to your needs…
mySnippets supports customizable syntax coloring for code snippets. Of course mySnippets is not TextMate or Xcode with support for 1732 languages - but you are free to customize the coloring to your needs. Main goal has been to support all languages without hassle and switching and multiple selections and options and tweaks - you get it :-)
To enable syntax coloring for a snippet - simply activate the checkbox inside the table…
Hint for the nerds: Inside the application bundle you will find a .plist file with the basic rules for the coloring - feel free to apply it to your needs…
Maraschino, Lime, Grape, Ocean, Strawberry, Licorice and all the others are available for your own syntax coloring pleasure.
You are free to apply a custom font, too…
Hint: Instead of long-winded tweaking the .plist file you can simply add own identifiers in the Preferences.
You are free to apply a custom font, too…
Hint: Instead of long-winded tweaking the .plist file you can simply add own identifiers in the Preferences.
Yes - I know - one can use the 'Apple Menu' - but ever tried to Quick Look such an item or to search for one or to simply add it to a list of often used files/documents with one click?
That's why I've added this section to mySnippets.
It's a time saver…
That's why I've added this section to mySnippets.
It's a time saver…
I don't know what you are doing with your Mac the whole day long - but I always find myself using the same files and documents repeatedly. Thats why mySnippets has its own Files section.
There you can store often used/needed files, search for them and Quick Look them with ease…
There you can store often used/needed files, search for them and Quick Look them with ease…
mySnippets supports OpenMeta tagging - thus you can easily tag your files/documents from within mySnippets and those tags are automatically written to your spotlight database. So you can search for those with Spotlight…