Welcome. This guide walks through your first 5 minutes with CodeCaddy, enough to save your first snippet, find it later, and share it with a teammate.
Go to app.codecaddy.dev. You can start saving snippets locally without an account; they'll live in your browser. Sign in with GitHub or Google when you want cloud sync across devices.
Click New snippet in the top-right. Paste anything: a kubectl command, a Helm value override, a Terraform module call. Give it a title that describes what it does, not what it is. ("Force-delete stuck namespace" beats "kubectl delete ns".)
Tag it. Tags are your primary way to find snippets later, so use them generously: kubectl, helm, prod, incident-response. Multiple tags per snippet are encouraged.
Hit Save. CodeCaddy creates a revision automatically; every save is versioned from this point forward.
CodeCaddy has a Tags dropdown for filtering your snippets. Type or scroll to pick a tag, and the view filters to matching snippets. You can also filter by Source (All, Local, or Cloud) to scope your view to just one storage location.
This is why tagging matters. A kubectl tag finds every kubectl snippet you've ever saved; an incident-response tag pulls up the runbook fragments you wrote at 3am six months ago. Untagged snippets are still saved, but they're hard to find later, so tag generously.
Open the snippet, edit it, hit Save. The old version is preserved as a revision. Click History to see all revisions and diff between any two.
This is where CodeCaddy differs from a notes app: every save is a checkpoint. You can always go back.
Click Share on any snippet. CodeCaddy generates a time-limited share link (default: 24 hours, configurable up to 30 days). Send it to a teammate via Slack, email, whatever.
Share links are read-only. The recipient can view and copy; they can't edit your snippet.
- FAQ for common questions
- Discussions for everything else
- Upgrade to Pro ($5/mo, details) for cloud sync and longer share link expiration
That's it. No setup, no config files, no plugins. Save things; find them later.