For a few years now I’ve used Snippets for keeping track of code snippets. It’s been a fine app, but recently has become slow, looks funny on Yosemite, and I get the feeling it’s become vaporware.

Since I use Evernote for keeping track of lots of things, both business and personal, I thought I’d look into using it for code snips. It’s easy enough to create a Snippets notebook, and notes for each bit of code – but retaining syntax highlighting and formatting doesn’t seem possible in Evernote. The first bit of javascript I tried to add pasted in as one long line, unformatted and unreadable. Bummer.

Enter bordaigorl/sublime-evernote.

I use Sublime Text everyday, this little package allows saving, opening, and updating notes to and from Evernote right from Sublime. Thus far I’ve tried two snippets, a .js and a .php script. The php file came in okay – no syntax highlighting but the line breaks and tabs were intact. The .js file saved as it had before. No highlighting, no line breaks/tabs.

I’ll update this post as I figure out how to get the highlighting perfected. At the very least it’s nice to leave an outdated app behind.

Update: Okay that didn’t take long… the way to get syntax highlighting and formatting to work is to use Markdown… Here’s an example with the proper Markdown to get it working with javascript:

[js]
“`javascript
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.hover').bind('touchstart touchend', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$(this).toggleClass('hover_effect');
});
});
“`
[/js]

And here’s a quick reference for Markdown if you need it: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet