Remember Code Snippets With Evernote
You don’t have to be a professional website designer or developer. If you own a website, sooner or later you will find yourself having to copy and paste certain code snippets over and over.
These can be anything. Such as:
- The code for a popular affiliate program’s banners.
- Opt-in form code. I do this a lot. Copying a very basic no frills or design HTML form code. When I need this anywhere, I pull it up on Evernote, copy, paste and work in the design.
- Codes for your own banner ads
- Analytics tracking codes
- Standard codes for your copyright footers
Not good with HTML or CSS? All the more reason, you should save these codes in Evernote. Copy and paste from existing codes or get someone to write them for you then put them in a note. To give you an idea, here are a few type of codes you should be saving.
- Code to add an image
- Code to create a linked image
- Code to create a redirect (using .htaccess, HTML, or PHP)
- CSS code to change a text color, font or font-size
- HTML special character codes – these will help you create things like ©, ™, &spade; ¢, and ®
- Simple Javascript codes
- Iframe codes
- Table codes
In short, just about any type of code that you find yourself re-using over and over. Quit searching high and low on your computer or Internet for them. Add them to Evernote. If the note gets really large, you can always move it to a notebook of its own or just use tags for easy search and retrieval.
There’s just one caveat. Evernote is meant to store text like a word processor. Sometimes it will mess up your code, particularly when you’re copying from it into a Visual Editor online or in WordPress. To make sure you get the best results, copy and paste it into a plain text editor first before copying it from the plain text editor to your content management system.
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Lynette, I use Evernote for the very same purpose! but more because mu html site software is an old version residing on an old laptop, so I do most of my Web searching and grabbing of any needed code on the newer desktop. So copying it and pasting into Evernote makes it available on the adjacent laptop immediately. Almost like having a third monitor! Thanks for the reminder about pasting. I use ClipMate for copy/paste, which has a function that automatically cleans up text. It is so handy, saving much time.
Agreed on ClipMate! When I was on Windows that is one of my must have applications. Partly to save my snippets, but partly to make it easier to paste in plain text. Now I’m on the Mac, I often try the built in “Paste and Match Style” when right clicking on certain programs. Most of the time, I just use ClipMenu – also a free utility that works like ClipMate.
Thanks for the tip, Lynette! I have actually done this over the years, but just kept the codes in a document on my computer. Evernote is a great option, and I need to start using it more often.
I use another tool as well, but Evernote is much faster when clipping code from sites I come across. Just right click and Add To Evernote. Also, when you work with others, it’s very handy to be able to share your “codes” notebook. Now everyone has access to the same code.