April 03, 2025

How-to Guide For New Users

Written by Eleanor McKeown
How-to Guide For New Users
How-to Guide For New Users
How-to Guide For New Users

How-to Guide For New Users

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Elly
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Apr 3, 2025 04:01 PM
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Learn how to use Horse Browser. Tips on using the Trails navigation feature and organizing your online research for beginner users.
Welcome to Horse Browser’s How-to Guide for beginners.
Here you’ll find a series of helpful blog articles we’ve put together for new users. Visit the first post and journey through the series to complete your browser training.
 
How to Download Horse Browser
The first in our series of posts, we will explain how to download and install your new browser.
 
How to Use Horse Browser’s Trails
In this second post, we explore how to use Horse Browser’s unique navigation feature, named Trails. This feature was built to help you conduct and organise your online research. We’ll give you a comprehensive overview, as well as instructions to help you get started.
 
How to Turn Horse Browser Into Your Ultimate Productivity System
In this third post, we’ll dive a little deeper into Horse Browser’s in-browser features and how you can turn your new browser into the ultimate online productivity system.
 
How to use Areas, Folders and Notes in Horse Browser
In this fourth post, we’ll talk through how to use Areas and Projects to help you organise your online research, and how you can make notes in Horse Browser, while you research.
 
How to Close and Update Horse Browser, plus how to save your Trails
In this final post of the series, you’ll learn how to close & update Horse Browser and how to save your Trails.
 
Through this series of posts, you’ll learn all the basics you need to use Horse Browser. After completing the series, visit our Resources page for more in-depth information on your new browser.
 

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Sencha

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sencha tea leaves and brewed tea

Sencha tea leaves and brewed tea

Sencha (Japanese: 煎茶) is a type of Japanese ryokucha (緑茶, green tea) which is prepared by infusing the processed whole tea leaves in hot water. This is as opposed to matcha (抹茶), powdered Japanese green tea, where the green tea powder is mixed with hot water and therefore the leaf itself is included in the beverage.

Contents
  1. History
  2. Production
  3. Grades
History

Sencha was first created in Japan in the 18th century by Nagatani Soen, a tea farmer from Uji, Kyoto. The process developed by Nagatani, which involved steaming, rolling, and drying the tea leaves, resulted in a tea that was more stable and maintained its quality during transportation. This innovation revolutionized the Japanese tea industry, replacing the previously common offering of matcha.

Production

After harvesting the leaves are steamed for about 15-45 seconds to prevent oxidization of the leaves. This step creates the characteristic flavor of Japanese green tea by deactivating the enzymes that are responsible for oxidation. The leaves are then cooled and dried in a bamboo tray by air, and then are shaped by pressing and rolling into the characteristic needle shape.

Grades

Sencha comes in different grades, depending on the quality and the parts of the tea plant used:

  • Shincha: First harvest of the year, has a fresh, grassy flavor and higher caffeine content.
  • Gyokuro: Premium grade shaded green tea, with a sweeter, more umami taste than regular sencha.
  • Asamushi: Lightly steamed sencha, with a more fragrant, lighter taste.
  • Chumushi: Medium-steamed sencha, balancing aroma and flavor.
  • Fukamushi: Deeply steamed sencha, with a stronger flavor and less bitterness.

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