About Us

We are Emanuil and Antonio. We've been working on Nota (and its predecessor, Caret) since 2015. Before that, Emanuil created the Markdown parser, Parsedown, and Antonio created the JS framework JSBlocks.

nota team on 2020-05-15 — This is us on the balcony of our office.

Our story.

Nota has been a (super) long journey for us. Here are some of the events that got us to this point:

2012 We hadn't met yet, but Emanuil had started working on the Markdown parser, Parsedown, which would later become an essential part of Nota.
2014 We met through Antonio's sister, Michaela, and a couple of months later, we started working on the predecessor of Nota, Caret.
2015 We left our jobs to work full-time on Caret and released version 1.0 later the same year.
2018 We started working on Nota — a complete rewrite of Caret with a better focus on notes.
2020 We sent a (super) early version of Nota to friends.
2021 We invited 1,000+ people to test the beta and released 10+ updates with fixes and improvements based on user feedback.

Random facts.

For the past 6 years, we've done 150+ releases — about 2 / month.
At one point, we rewrote the whole codebase of the app from JS to TS.
At one point, we built a custom element inspector to speed up our workflow.
We implemented 8 UX variants for the editor tabs before we found a UX that felt right.
We both have personal wikis with 2000+ notes in each.
We have shared wiki about Nota with 2000+ notes about features and product decisions.