Tea Timer & Journal: Gaiwan

A record of the tea you drink. Gaiwan keeps four things in one place: what is in your cabinet, how each pot actually went, where the leaf came from, and what any of it means. THE CABINET Every tea is a card that opens on its own photo, with Brew right under it and a summary of how you brew it: your usual leaf, water and temperature, and the sitting you rated best. Fill in the rest over time — cultivar, altitude, the year it was picked, what you paid, how much is left. Photograph the package and most of it can be read for you, Chinese and Japanese labels included. STEEP BY STEEP Gongfu is many short infusions rather than one long one, and the timer is built for that. It proposes a length for each steep, walks the times up as the session goes on, survives you leaving the app, and files your notes against the steep they belong to. Choosing a tea prefills leaf, vessel and water temperature…