Announcing Snip-It Pro
I first heard the term “snippet” back in 1999. I just started my first real job at a dot com called GORP.com. My official title was “Technical Producer” but that was just a fancy way of saying HTML code monkey.
Back then we were using a product called HomeSite to hand edit the html. I was working on a large project to convert a lot of content into a new template, clean up the html itself to make it more xHTML compliant and put it in an Xml Content management system called Dynabase. Back in those days, browsers weren’t as forgiving as they are today.
Lucky for us, HomeSite had a great little built it snippet manager. I was able to save commonly used pieces of html and share them with other “technical producers.”
After Macromedia bought Allaire, Homesite was basically dead. Since I left GORP.com, I have worked with many languages and many tools, but I can’t remember one that had a snippet manager that made me feel as productive as I did with HomeSite.
And that is mostly the inspiration for Snip-It Pro. My goal was to create a tool that makes it easy for people to organize and re-use content, not just with one application, but with any application. I wanted it to be easy to use and make users feel as productive as possible when re-using content. I am proud of what I have built so far and hope it helps everyone who tries it.