General use

• Save code from the web and then auto-complete it in your IDE a few seconds later

• Replace your code snippet bookmarks in your browser (plus, they’re searchable)

• Save boilerplate code or have it saved automatically for you with auto-save

• Save alternative algorithms or pseudocode that isn’t ready for production

• Save code when resolving merge conflicts, just in case

• Save interesting snippets of code instead of starring or forking the entire repo for just a few lines

• Save resources and lightweight libraries that help you solve problems without large overhead or third-party dependencies

• Auto-complete READMEs, CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT with standardized information within and across projects

• Temporarily save code you’ll need to move soon

• Save screenshots from multiple repos and compare them back-to-back to find errors where git pulls/merges/PRs have been improperly managed on specific sections of code

• Organize snippets from various client projects with tags

“I save a lot of my responses that are not available on the web. Specifically any sort of command I would use with GCloud, as well as little templates of code, like my try catches— I’ll actually just right-click, send to Pieces and autocomplete that into IntelliJ, VS Code, or any one of my editors.”

Mark Widman - Full Stack Developer @ Pieces

For teams

• Save and send snippets to group members to ensure everyone is working on the latest iteration of a project

• Send individual snippets to specific team members for review

• Create a knowledge base of snippets for your team as an easily sharable collection (coming soon!)

• Speed up onboarding a new member to your team by sharing a curated collection of internally useful snippets in Pieces (coming soon!)

Front-end development

• Store templates you reuse often - HTML structures, CSS blocks, Javascript loops, switch cases, imports, class structures, function blocks, decorator objects and more

• While learning Bootstrap grids, you can save all your configurations as snippets

• Save different versions of a widget to track its evolution over time

Back-end development

• Save CLI commands for future reference

• Save PEM keys and authentication tokens in your completely local repository

• Save common error messages and  attach solutions as related links for future reference

• Use Pieces code auto-complete on unit tests

• Save templates for AJAX calls

• Document old versions of code with references to why it was updated as related links

• Save Bash commands, shell commands and other terminal commands for use between projects

"Pieces code auto-complete is pretty useful on some of the boilerplate code that I use in a lot of my C++ and CMake projects. I copy certain things a lot and there's not really a good way to abstract it out, so, Pieces auto-completed it and nearly took care of everything for me"

Brandon Kunkel - Full Stack Developer @ Pieces

Specialists

• Save frequently used modeling/data-visualization snippets that otherwise get lost in heavy Jupyter notebooks

• Save HTML or CSS snippets and paste them directly into Webflow without having to code anything

• Save plotting utility examples

• Track data schemas for databases

• Save NoSQL and SQL queries

Students

• Save code snippets you have issues with, and want to send to your TA/prof to ask for help with

• Convert screenshots from online tutorials into useable snippets

• Save multiple solutions to a coding problem with a browser extension

• Add tags to snippets that are specific to each course so that you can easily search for them later

• Convert screenshots of code from online tutorials into copyable snippets with OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

• Take pictures of code the professor presented in class and convert to text