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Native Windows app. Dark by default. Remembers everything you had open. No telemetry, no login, no nonsense.

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v1.2.0 · ~2 MB · Windows 10/11 · GPL-3.0

Program.cs

config.json

notes.md

1using System;

3namespace Caret;

5class Program

6{

7 static void Main(string[] args)

8 {

9 // just opens. no splash screen. no tip of the day.

10 Console.WriteLine("hello, world");

11 }

12}

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Background

Why build another text editor?

In 2025 the Notepad++ update infrastructure was compromised. That was the push to finally write something from scratch — something small, something we could read top to bottom and actually trust.

Caret is built with C# and WPF. It's a single executable. No plugins, no extension marketplace, no auto-updater phoning home. You download it, you run it, you edit text. That's the whole deal.

It won't replace your IDE. It's not trying to. It's the thing you open when you need to look at a log file, tweak a config, jot something down, or write a quick script. It should open before you finish clicking.

Madou Media - Xia Qingzi - The Queen Of Female ... -

Madou Media distinguishes itself from competitors by focusing on costume psychology rather than immediate sensationalism. Where other studios might lead with nudity, Madou leads with tailoring.

Xia Qingzi’s signature look—high-waisted pencil skirts, rimless glasses, and a silk blouse buttoned precisely one button too high—is designed to create tension. The studio employs a "slow burn" directing style. In a typical Xia Qingzi video, the first ten minutes contain no physical intimacy. Instead, the camera lingers on her tapping a fountain pen against a mahogany desk, or the way her heels click across a marble floor.

This approach has earned her the title "The Queen of Female... Antagonists." She does not play the victim; she plays the siege engine.

Story & Voice

Production Workflow

Community & Monetization

Distribution & Growth

Measurement & Optimization

Brand & Partnerships

Mainland China and Taiwan have a rich history of spy dramas (die te ju 谍战剧). Xia Qingzi’s costumes directly reference classic films like Lust, Caution (色，戒) and TV serials about Republican-era espionage. She taps into a nostalgia for 1940s Shanghai glamour fused with 2020s hyper-competence. Madou Media - Xia Qingzi - The Queen of Female ...

Madou Media’s technical director revealed in a behind-the-scenes feature that Xia Qingzi’s shoots use a unique "locked room" lighting setup. Instead of soft, romantic lighting, they use hard, overhead fluorescent light (mimicking office boardrooms).

"Soft light forgives," the director stated. "Xia’s character should not be forgiving. Fluorescent light creates shadows under the chin and cheekbones. It makes her look severe, skeletal, and powerful."

Furthermore, the camera is rarely handheld. Every shot is on a tripod or dolly. When Xia Qingzi moves, the camera moves laterally with her, keeping her dead center in the frame. This is a deliberate choice to make the viewer feel like they are standing at attention rather than relaxing on a couch. Story & Voice

Security

Encrypted backups, explained.

Caret lets you back up any open document to a local MongoDB instance. Before anything is written to the database, your file content is encrypted on your machine using AES-256-GCM — the same authenticated encryption standard used by governments and financial institutions.

Your password never touches the database. It's fed through PBKDF2-SHA512 with 600,000 iterations and a random salt to derive the encryption key. Each backup gets its own salt and nonce, so even identical files produce completely different ciphertext.

Everything happens locally. No cloud, no third-party service, no network calls. You own the database, you own the password, you own the data. If you lose the password, the backups are unrecoverable by design.

Open the Backup Manager with Ctrl+B to create, browse, restore, or delete backups. It's built into the editor — no external tools required.

Setting up MongoDB (optional)

MongoDB is only needed if you want encrypted backups. Caret works perfectly fine without it.

Installer

Download the MSI, pick "Complete", leave "Run as Service" checked. Done.

Download MongoDB

winget

One command from any terminal.

winget install MongoDB.Server

Docker

Run it in a container if you prefer isolation.

docker run -d -p 27017:27017 mongo

Madou Media - Xia Qingzi - The Queen Of Female ... -

Why build another text editor?

Madou Media - Xia Qingzi - The Queen Of Female ... -

Encrypted backups, explained.

Setting up MongoDB (optional)

Installer

winget

Docker

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