SnipAway

If you’ve worked with any code before, then you probably know there’s rarely a case when a programmer or web designer writes everything from scratch. This isn’t just about using frameworks, but also snippets, which are just portions of code which can be reused with little or no altering.

If some code editors also come with snippet management features, then SnipAway works the other way round, by being, first and foremost, a snippet management tool.

This free app lets you copy/paste or even write code snippets in over 40 markup and programming languages, which include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Java, Python, C++, MySQL or even simple text. You can already see that it’s a versatile program and this becomes more obvious after you start to customize it according to your needs and preferences.

You can choose from over 25 editor themes, each with their own background, text and highlight colors. You can easily organize your snippets into colored folders (which, for example, you could name according to the projects you're working on) and even add favorites.

Even though few may actually use SnipAway as their go-to code editor, the app has enough features to help you to edit your snippets; it will highlight syntax according to the language you are using, it allows you to fold parts of the code and even has an autocomplete function.

Lastly, if you use various websites for references and inspiration, you can just add them as web snippets; the pages will then be displayed in the editor, and you’ll be able to see the pages just as you would in a web browser.

SnipAway might not be revolutionary, but it can help you save time and better organize your coding work.