saveto.co — adding markdown notes and code snippets

Archive note (2025): The hosted saveto.co service is no longer running. Source code remains at github.com/saveto-co. This post is kept as a project changelog.

saveto.co was a side-project URL shortener and link-sharing service I ran in 2016 — "home for the best link in the internet" was the tagline. This release added a small but useful extension: notes and code snippets, not just links.

#What changed

Two new things landed in this release:

• Markdown notes. Anything saved as plain text was rendered as Markdown by default — no extra flag, no .md suffix needed (though .md was accepted).
• Syntax-highlighted snippets. To get highlighting on a code paste, you named the snippet with a real extension — for example main.js for JavaScript. The renderer used the extension to pick a language.

#Who could use it

Notes were open to everyone, including anonymous visitors. Logged-in users got the extras:

• A list of all their notes at saveto.co/note/all
• The ability to edit and delete their own notes
• View counts per note

Anonymous notes were write-once: no edit, no delete.

#Original links

For reference (now offline):

• https://saveto.co/note
• https://ahihi.club/note
• Source code: github.com/saveto-co