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title: "Code snippets"
description: "Save code snippets with syntax highlighting. Savepad guesses the language, keeps the formatting, and copies in one click."
source: https://savepad.app/docs/code-snippets
---
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# Code snippets

Save code snippets with syntax highlighting. Savepad guesses the language, keeps the formatting, and copies in one click.

The regex you’ll never remember, the scroll animation from that agency site, the SQL you wrote once at 2am. Save it once, find it by searching any word in it.

## How to save code

- **Paste it** with ⌘V anywhere. Savepad spots code by its shape and guesses the language.
- **Type or paste it** into the save dialog (press **N**).
- **Use backticks** to pick the language yourself: three backticks, the language name, the code, three backticks.
- **Ask your assistant** to save it as a note.

Savepad recognises TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, Go, Rust, Bash, JSON, GraphQL, Dockerfiles, Java, and YAML by itself. Anything else saves as plain text.

![A saved TypeScript debounce function in Savepad with syntax highlighting, the language at the top, and a Copy button](https://savepad.app/shots/a-saved-typescript-debounce-function-in-savepad-with-syntax-6f61c9.png)

Code keeps its highlighting and copies in one click.

## What you get

- Highlighting for the language
- A **Copy** button
- Every word searchable, so `debounce` finds it

## Tips

- Write where it came from in the note. “From Linear’s changelog page, the fade on scroll.”
- `type:code` in search shows only code.

Other things you write straight into Savepad: [notes](https://savepad.app/docs/notes) and [colours and palettes](https://savepad.app/docs/colours-and-palettes).