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canSnippet: cansnippet.com

It's a snippet/clipboard manager for macOS. I worked on that project a few years ago and sold a dozen copies. I still use it every day and I feel like it could be helpful to many other users. That's why I decided to have a look at it again, start by updating a bit the code and also providing a Linux and Windows version, let's see how much time I can dedicate to it. What makes canSnippet really useful is the powerful keyboard shortcuts to create from and use a snippet in any app.

canSnippet (cansnippet.com), an advanced snippet/clipboard manager. I sold a dozen copies of the app without any marketing and then moved away from it. It's a tool I still use every day and feel it's a pity that I couldn't put more effort on it as I believe it has a huge potential!
Re:Ask HN: Any GitHub Gist Alternative? on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:18AM (#22582565)
canSnippet is an alternative I developed some time ago. You can use: - the Desktop version (macOS only, no cloud) http://cansnippet.com/ - the community edition (open source webapp) http://cansnippet.org/

You can see a running instance (in French) here https://cansnippet.bioinfo-fr.net/

Let me know if you have any question :)

Re:Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page? on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:10AM (#21710711)
I always start with https://html5up.net/ where you have a nice selection of free HTML5+CSS templates! I hope it helps.
Ex-bioinformatician here :) I had a very similar idea during my post-doc but gave up as I realized how difficult it was to deal with research groups (labs). They would usually just hire an intern bioinformatician using grant (or extra) money instead of dealing with an external company. I am only talking about Switzerland, I don't know what the situation is in other places. You can check these two companies and maybe reach out to ask some questions: - https://genexa.ch/ - https://www.fasteris.com/dna/ Good luck!
Re:Ask HN: What software/app do you wish would exist? on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:32AM (#21407600)
I am the developer of canSnippet, a macOS (https://www.cansnippet.com/) and web-based (https://www.cansnippet.org/) snippet management tool. canSnippet allows the user to easily save and reuse pieces of useful code/text.

In addition to the code itself, canSnippet also support tags and a description for your snippet.

Show HN: CanSnippetCE Easily manage your repetitive code, phrases and paragraphs

Hi HN,I am really happy to announce the new version of canSnippetCE (v2.0.0) today. canSnippet Community Edition is a web-based snippet management tool. It allows you to save and share all the precious pieces of code and text that you often refer to. The whole story started during my PhD when I often needed to get the list of all hexamer sequences (4096 sequences of 6 letters) as a Python...

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I always refer to the following tutorial ('Git - the simple guide - no deep shit!') when I am blocked https://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/
Re:Ask HN: Where do you buy static website templates? on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:51AM (#16499640)
I love the ones from HTML5UP, they are free, open source and really beautiful https://html5up.net/
Re:Ask HN: What's your favourite ZSH theme? on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:40AM (#16400837)
I am a big fan of Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) which I also use for Atom.
I just published this article on my blog. I thought it might be useful to other people.
I am working (on my spare time) on canSnippet for the last few years. I made a very first web-based version https://github.com/ademcan/canSnippet and I recently released a desktop version for macOS (Windows and Linux are coming...) https://www.cansnippet.com/. I got very good and positive feedback so far :)
Howdy! A demo (free) version of canSnippet is now available from the website. Enjoy!
Dear HNers, I finally managed to ship my side-project, canSnippet :) CanSnippet is a macOS tool to easily save, keep and access your code snippets with simple keyboard shortcuts. Feel free to ask me if you have any question. Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your personal code library? on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:11AM (#13113537)
Hi there, I am the developer of canSnippet (https://github.com/ademcan/canSnippet). canSnippet is a web application that needs to be installed on a server and can be used to save/share code snippets. I will be back to it soon and add some more features, and also a better theme :) Don't hesitate to ask me if you have any question.
Re:Ask HN: How do save/organize your readed articles? on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:20AM (#13071397)
Ok, I don't understand any Russian :) but it seems there is a plugin on the Opera addons store (https://addons.opera.com/ru/extensions/details/wallabagger/?...). This addon is mentioned on the following Wallabag page (https://www.wallabag.org/blog_index.html). Hope it works.

EDIT: you can also have a look at Respawn (https://github.com/broncowdd/respawn). It is not as advanced as Wallabag, but it also saves a copy of any webpage to your own server.

Re:Ask HN: How do save/organize your readed articles? on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:36AM (#13069922)
What is it that doesn't work? I actually installed it on my own server and use it on Firefox mostly.
Re:Ask HN: How do save/organize your readed articles? on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:25AM (#13069656)
Wallabag (https://www.wallabag.org/) is a very nice open source alternative to Pocket.