How do you manage your gists on GitHub? [closed]

Answer 1

It might be possible to clone your gists into a local folder (as pointed out by vgoff), then build some sort of personal website around this hosted on github pages... Using Jekyll/liquid you could tag and have categories... Embed using JavaScript, or use partials to inject code into the source ( using pygments to handle the syntax highlighting - or do it client side e.g using SyntaxHighlighter ). Perhaps use google search for the search component... or dynamically build up a json file, or use github's gist API ( http://develop.github.com/p/gist.html ) to pull in json for meta data and public repos...

You could possibly take this further and "demo" your HTML/CSS/JS gists using jsFiddle.net (you can create a new fiddle from a gist... See: http://doc.jsfiddle.net/use/gist_read.html )

I'm going to need a system like this for a project I'm working on ( http://getfiremonkey.com ) - it's for teaching teenagers HTML/CSS/JS in Firefox... And I'm thinking of building it on top of Github Pages/Gist/jsFiddle.net ... Free, open, interactive examples and branchable.

I've decided to setup a side project to focus on building a Gist CMS from anything I learn along the way...

https://github.com/chrisjacob/gist-cms

"Personal Gist CMS hosted on Github Pages. A code / content management system powered by Jekyll to tag, categorize and search your Gist archive. Keep all your Gist's organized in one repository; and show them off the the world with their own dedicated website."

Right now it's just an idea; so let me know if you're interested - and lend a hand if you can ^_^

Answer 2

Check out GistBox. It supports searching, editing and labels. Here's a screenshot:

There's also a demo video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLgyY6lqpsQ

GistBox Clipper (a Chrome extension) also provides the ability to save <pre> tags and arbitrary text on any web page.

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Edit:

Unfortunately, GistBox is becoming Cacher cacher.io - the free plan will only include: 15 private snippets, 3 private labels, unlimited public snippets. If you plan on having many private gists then you will need to but (sic) a paid plan. – Bartek Skwira

Answer 3

If your snippets are Ruby snippets, I'd suggest boson. I use it to maintain my repository of 450+ ruby commands (snippets). I search my commands by name, description, usage, alias and other fields as well as sort by them.

Since my commands reside in local files, I can easily export to gists or install gists as boson commands. I can do all of the things you want to do except list by date and tag. Listing by date is trivial (timestamp of the file) and tags is something I'd like to add to boson as a plugin one day.

Answer 4

You can also try Snipit: https://snipit.xyz - it helps you easily save and organize your code snippets. It's still in beta, but it allows you to:

• snip code blocks directly from the pages you visit, with a handy browser extensions;
• organize your snippets in lists;
• search snippets by list, title, syntax and tags.

Features from upcoming version:

• collections: group multiple lists in packages or libraries (e.g. "Bootstrap code examples", or "PHP functions");
• sharing and collaboration: share snippets with everybody, or only with specific people; collaborate with team members;
• companion desktop app and IDE extensions: quickly find snippets while you're working, without breaking your development flow;
• last but not least: integration with Gist.

Give it a try and hope it solves all your needs.

Answer 5

Gists are lightweight repositories, so why not take advantage of that?

Clone your gists to a 'my_gists' directory, organized in the way you would want them organized.

Then they become searchable fully using whatever search tools you are familiar with on your operating system.

You also have the advantage of being able to edit, comment, commit and push.

This let's you do all that you have listed and more.

Add git instaweb to the mix and you even have a rudimentary web interface to your gists.