When comparing Code Collector Pro vs Boostnote, the Slant community recommends Boostnote for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” Boostnote is ranked 2nd while Code Collector Pro is ranked 33rd. The most important reason people chose Boostnote is:
Supports Windows, macOS and Linux.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Smart folders, with robust rules based search
Pro Organize snippets, by License, Language, and tag.
Pro Snippet tagging
Pro Code Highlighting
Pro Hot Key Quick Search, no matter which application you have open in the foreground bring up the Hot Key Quick Search to paste in your favorite snippet
Pro Support for multiple languages (Objective-C, PHP, Ruby, C, and many more can be added)
Pro Cross platform support
Supports Windows, macOS and Linux.
Pro Markdown support
Pro Free
Pro Open source
See here.
Pro Great for developers
Boostnote is great for developers looking to take programming notes with code snippets and such.
Pro Supports code snippets and syntax highlighting
Boostnote has the ability to store code snippets and comes with syntax highlighting out of the box, supporting many languages.
Pro Works offline
Boostnote doesn't require an internet connection to work. You can write notes offline and sync later.
Pro Global search, tag feature
Pro Comes with many themes
Boostnote comes with many themes out of the box, most of which are popular themes and color schemes for code editors: e.g. 3024, base16, solarized, tomorrow.
Pro vim/emacs key bindings available
Boostnote supports vim/emacs key bindings. If you're a developer familiar with either of them, navigation should be easy to pick up.
Cons
Con Only syncs to CodeCollector.net
Con Not enough languages out of the box
Although languages can be added with tmbundle, there could have been more languages out of the box for more convenience.
Con Some of the features are not consistent
Con Must use third-party service for sync-ing (Dropbox, etc.)
Boostnote does not have sync-ing capabilities and relies on third-party services to fulfil notes storage. There are additional steps involved to set this up.
Con Can't work in "real" offline mode
Con Very poor syncing
Data loss may occur on syncing.