How do I add a custom snippet?

[davelk]

Ok, I just stumbled on sublime and it's sick!

I know this is probably basic but I clicked 'add snippet' edited the template document and saved it as a snippet file in the users directory and it didn't work?
where am I going wrong?

[jps]

The default snippet it creates has the scope set to source.python, as an example: you'll likely want to remove this, otherwise the snippet will only work when editing python files.