About Us
We are Emanuil and Antonio. We've been working on Nota (and its predecessor, Caret) since 2015
.

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 ofNota
. -
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 version1.0
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 invited1,000+
people to test the beta and released10+
updates with fixes and improvements based on user feedback.
Random facts.
- For the past
6
years, we've done150+
releases — about2
/ 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.