Description
Lepton is a snippet manager that stores everything in GitHub Gist. The things you never quite remember and keep looking up — a particular git incantation, a regex, a config template — go in here, sorted by language and tag, and come back in seconds next time.
It runs no server of its own: your snippets are Gists under your own account, so signing in on another computer brings them all with you, and whether one is public or private is decided on the Gist side. Desktop builds exist for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Gist-backed storage: Everything lives in your own GitHub Gists, so there is no third-party service to trust and the same content is visible on the web.
Language and tag organisation: The sidebar groups snippets by programming language automatically, custom tags can be added on top, and frequently used ones can be pinned.
Syntax highlighting: Snippets are highlighted per language, and multiple files inside one Gist collapse and expand separately so long entries stay navigable.
Markdown descriptions: A snippet’s description accepts Markdown, so you can explain what the code does and when to use it instead of leaving just a title.
Search and sync: Search runs across titles, tags and content, and one sync pulls down changes made elsewhere.
It runs no server of its own: your snippets are Gists under your own account, so signing in on another computer brings them all with you, and whether one is public or private is decided on the Gist side. Desktop builds exist for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Features
Gist-backed storage: Everything lives in your own GitHub Gists, so there is no third-party service to trust and the same content is visible on the web.
Language and tag organisation: The sidebar groups snippets by programming language automatically, custom tags can be added on top, and frequently used ones can be pinned.
Syntax highlighting: Snippets are highlighted per language, and multiple files inside one Gist collapse and expand separately so long entries stay navigable.
Markdown descriptions: A snippet’s description accepts Markdown, so you can explain what the code does and when to use it instead of leaving just a title.
Search and sync: Search runs across titles, tags and content, and one sync pulls down changes made elsewhere.
