Why I Ran Two Snippet Systems At Once

I spent six months running two competing systems for code snippets.

On one side: SnippetsLab on macOS. Polished, native, search box in the menu bar, syntax highlighting for basically everything.

On the other side: a plain folder of gists. Literally a directory of .md and .txt files, backed by Git, pushed to GitHub gists from the terminal.

I did not do this as a thought experiment. I did it because my snippet situation was a mess.