I started a note-taking app for Hacker called Tea with a gay friend.

We’re both heavy note-taking app users. In our minds, note-taking apps like Sublime Text and VS Code are great Code editors: minimal and powerful. So we developed Tea. It has a

  • Minimalist interface,
  • Real-time rendering of Markdown,
  • A variety of shortcuts that communicate with the editor,
  • Code highlighting and other features.

Of course, we also support plug-ins. The existing note-taking apps on the market are either clunky or simple with few features. So we took a page out of the code editor’s book and plugged-in everything. The hope is that Tea can be very simple and still be powerful. Users take what they want and install whatever plug-ins they want.

The core function

We are currently in private beta.

It’s pretty basic, but hopefully you’ll get a sense of where we’re going, and how we’re going to be different from other note-taking apps.

What you see is what you get Markdown

For a product “made for hackers,” how could Markdown😉 not be? Yes, it’s been 8102 years, and evernote’s Markdown is still a double column… And the Markdown we have in mind, of course, is real-time rendering, WYSIWYG:

2. Efficient keyboard shortcuts

Hackers love shortcuts.

So as you can probably guess,

  • To search and jump to notes, use Ctrl + P (⌘ to Windows is Ctrl + P);
  • To ⌘ our sidebar toggle, is to use + \ (Ctrl + under Windows);
  • Images, titles and other objects can be inserted by calling @ at the beginning of the paragraph

  • ⌘ + / (Ctrl + / under Windows) allows you to view all shortcut keys, and Markdown format

3. The plug-in

Currently, we have developed our own plug-ins:

  • Vim mode – a note-taking app for hackers that supports Vim😉
  • Formula editing – supports Latex formula input, good assistant on DNN alchemy road 😏
  • Markdown editing – Yes, what you see is what you get Markdown is a plugin 😎
  • Burst mode – See the image below, Atom users, show me your hands 🤘🤘

4. The shorthand

In addition to the regular notes home screen, we also support a post-it note feature we call the Little Window. Press the shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + space to pop up. Press the shortcut key again to close. When you are called, your way is gone.

All the notes in the little window will be stored in shorthand. Shorthand is a place to store temporary notes, it doesn’t have a hierarchical structure underneath the document, it’s the best place to take notes, ideas, trivia, etc.

5. Minimalist interface

SKR ~ = SKR ~ = SKR ~

In the future

Now we are testing the standalone version in private. If you are interested, please go to our official website haocha.co/ and download the private version for Windows or Mac.

In addition, you are welcome to join our feedback group and give your comments and feedback:

You can also follow our official account to learn about the latest developments of Tea:

The features currently on our backlog are:

  1. Command (Ctrl) + Shift + P Command panel
  2. The code in the snippet runs directly
  3. Built-in Terminal
  4. Solarized, Dracula, etc
  5. Split screen
  6. Making Gist to integrate
  7. The Presentation mode
  8. A Minimap similar to Sublime
  9. Customize shortcut keys
  10. Insert diagrams such as flow charts and mind maps
  11. .

We welcome suggestions for the features you want.

enjoy