Keep the text and files you reuse in a glass panel at the side of your browser. Click to copy, or insert straight into any form.
SideSnip keeps the text you type again and again (answers, links, email replies) and files such as your resume in a small frosted-glass panel at the side of your browser. Click a snippet to copy it, insert it into the field you're typing in, or attach a file to an upload field. Sort snippets into groups and search them all at once. SideSnip stays off until you turn it on for a site, and everything stays in your browser.
Install it from the Chrome Web Store. Updates arrive automatically.
Install it from Firefox Add-ons. Updates arrive automatically.
If your browser can't add extensions from the Chrome Web Store, you can load SideSnip from a download instead:
- Download the latest ZIP from the releases page and unzip it to a folder you'll keep. (Downloaded the whole repository instead? Use its
extensionfolder.) - Open your browser's Extensions page, for example
chrome://extensions. - Turn on Developer mode.
- Click Load unpacked and choose the folder with
manifest.jsonin it.
Offline copies don't update by themselves. When you get a new version, unzip it over the same folder (replacing the old files), then click the ↻ reload button on the SideSnip card in the extensions page. Your snippets stay put.
⚠️ Don't remove the extension to update it. Removing it deletes all your saved snippets. If you ever need to remove it, use Export first.
SideSnip stays hidden until you want it on a site. First, pin the SideSnip icon to your toolbar (puzzle-piece menu → pin), because you'll use it to turn SideSnip on.
- Open a job application page.
- Click the SideSnip icon in your toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+K. The panel appears, and from now on it shows up on that website automatically.
- Click + to add your first snippet: give it a title (like "LinkedIn") and the text to paste.
- Copy: click a snippet's title. Your cursor stays in the form, so just press Ctrl+V.
- Type it in for you: click into a form field, then click ↵ on the snippet.
- Drag: drag a snippet by its dotted handle (⋮⋮) and drop it onto a text box.
- Open a link: a snippet that's just a web address (like your LinkedIn or portfolio link) also gets an ↗ button that opens it in a new tab.
Click 📋 in the panel's header. The copied text is filled in; add a title and click Save.
The first time, SideSnip opens a small window asking for clipboard access, then your browser asks you to confirm. After that it's a single click. If you'd rather not allow it, choose Not now and paste the text yourself.
- Add a file: drag it from your desktop onto the panel. Or click +, then 📎 in the form. Files can be up to 10 MB.
- Upload it to an application: click 📎 on the file. SideSnip lists the page's upload fields: their names ("Resume/CV", "Cover letter"…) and what each one accepts. Hover over an option to see that field outlined on the page, then click it to attach the file.
- Or drag it: drag the file by its dotted handle (⋮⋮) and let go over the page's upload area, or over an email you're writing. The file is attached when you let go.
- Images: clicking an image copies the picture, ready to paste.
- The buttons under the search box are your groups. You start with General and Work; add more (for example Job Applications) with +.
- Move a snippet to a group: drag it onto that group's button.
- Delete a group: select it, then click its × twice. Its snippets aren't lost; they move to (No group).
- Rename groups or change their order: in Settings. Drag a group by its dotted handle (⋮⋮) to move its button.
- Search: the search box looks through every group at once.
- Click the checklist button next to the search box.
- Click the snippets you want to delete. Hold Shift and click to pick everything between two snippets, or click All.
- Click Delete, then click it again to confirm. Click Done to go back without deleting.
Only the snippets shown are picked, so choose a group or search first to narrow it down.
- Drag the panel's header anywhere on the screen.
- Near the top or bottom edge, it docks into that corner as a slim bar. Click the bar to open or close it.
- Anywhere else, it floats on the left or right side and shrinks to a small round button when closed.
- Settings also has a little map for picking the position directly.
- Click the eye button in the header to turn SideSnip off for the current website.
- Click the toolbar icon to bring it back.
Open them with the sliders button in the panel's header.
- Position: the four corners, or floating on the left or right.
- Theme: Auto matches the website you're on (a dark panel on dark sites, light on light sites), or always Light or always Dark.
- Show SideSnip on: only the sites you turn it on for (the default), or every site.
- Groups: rename, reorder, add or delete.
- Backup: Export saves everything (snippets, files and groups) to a file. Import adds snippets from a file in the same order, after the ones you already have, and skips any you already have.
- This site: turn SideSnip off here.
- Everything stays on your computer, inside your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, and websites can't read your snippets.
- Your snippets are still there after you restart the browser or your computer.
- They're deleted only if you remove the extension. Use Export now and then as a backup, and to move your snippets to another browser or computer.
- The full details are in the privacy policy.
What the browser asks you to allow, and why:
| Permission | Why SideSnip needs it |
|---|---|
| Read and change data on websites | To show the panel and fill in forms on the sites you choose. |
| Read data you copy and paste | Only for "📋 Add copied text". Asked the first time you use it, never before. |
| Store unlimited data | So you can keep files like your resume. |
- The panel isn't showing on a page. Click the SideSnip toolbar icon.
- The toolbar icon shows a red "!". Browsers don't allow extensions on that kind of page: new-tab pages, settings pages, extension stores and PDFs.
- "Click into a form field first". Click inside the box you want to fill, then press ↵ on the snippet.
- A file won't drop into an upload area. Use 📎 on the file snippet instead. Some forms are embedded in a way that only 📎 can reach.
- The 📎 list shows several similar options. Hover over each to see which field it is. Options marked "not visible on the page" are hidden upload buttons the site uses behind the scenes (Gmail has these). They usually still work: "Any file" is for attachments, "Images" for inserting pictures.
- SideSnip works inside your browser, not in other apps.
- Files can be up to 10 MB each.
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