Quivy acts like a friend who already knows your life, so this direction dresses it as the thing friends actually hand each other: a freshly printed sheet from the neighbourhood print shop. Two spot inks, fluor pink and teal, on grained paper, with registration kept gloriously a hair off. Cards arrive like paper, not panels; the agent's hand is a pink Q stamp, pressed slightly wrong on purpose.
Earning the ask, one sheet at a time.
PRINT NO. 01 · CAPE TOWN
Quivy keeps an eye on your messages, email, calendar, photos, contacts and files, then steps in before things slip.
Everything Quivy learns stays on a small box in your home, or on this phone. Nobody else's computer.
TAKES ABOUT TWO MINUTES
Eight of them, one tap apiece. Nothing ever gets posted or sent.
Each app hands over its own keys. Quivy never sees a password.
Here's what I found.
Keep what fits, toss what doesn't. Either way it stays on the box.
You and Marco haven't talked in 8 months.
The Lisbon photos you promised Priya: 23 days and counting.
You keep Thursday evenings free. Forty plus weeks running.
You don't eat shellfish.
200 plus contacts, sorted by who you actually see.
Anything wrong? Say so and I'll fix it.
First contact, daily mess, one calm brief.
Morning. Three things before nine: Dan on Thursday needs the Q3 drawings, Priya's still waiting on the Lisbon photos, and Marco's in Cape Town next month. All three are below.
Q3 drawings, to DanTHURSDAY 10:00
Lisbon photos, to Priya23 DAYS WAITING
Marco, in town soon12 TO 20 AUGUSTThursday is your usual evening.
"…ask Marco if Ana can do the Saturday instead"
Salt & Stone · Thu 14 Aug, 19:00
FOUR PEOPLE · R1 800 DEPOSIT
PAID R1 800 · SALT & STONE DEPOSIT
REF SAS-4821 · HOLDS OUT TO BOTH CALENDARS
For Priya, picked and ready:
Morning. The day on one sheet:
The soul moment, then the machinery around it.
You and Marco used to talk most weeks. It's been eight months.
He's in Cape Town 12 to 20 August, and three times suit you both. Want me to hold a table?
Three evenings work for you both, party of four. Pick a place and I'll hold it.
Kalk Bay, harbour side. Seafood.
R450 A HEAD · R1 800 FOR FOUR
Shellfish-free picks already noted for you.
Bree Street. Small plates, candlelit.
NO DEPOSIT
Groups by phone only. I'd call when they open.
V&A Waterfront, terrace at dusk.
R300 A HEAD · R1 200 FOR FOUR
Marco's not on Quivy, so there's no agent on his side. I've messaged him on WhatsApp and I'm waiting on a human.
Nothing to do but let the ink dry. I'll nudge him tomorrow morning if he's quiet.
Marco's in. Thursday it is, with Ana. One thing left, and it's yours to call:
Thursday 14 August, 19:00
You set bookings to suggest and approve. So the table's ready, but this one's your call.
Menu checked. Plenty for you without the shellfish.
Done. Proof below, undo at the bottom.
Full refund until 12:00 on 13 August. After that the deposit is theirs.
Saturday 16 August, 12:30 is one of the three. If Ana can make it, we could move the whole thing to lunch.
"…and ask Marco if Ana can do the Saturday instead"
Loose ends, briefs, and who's who.
The Lisbon photos have been sitting for 23 days. I've picked three. One tap and they're with Priya.
3 picked · Lisbon in July
To Priya NaidooDan at 10:00. Brief's up, two hours of runway.
You last sat down on 4 March. Five months between coffees is a long gap for you two.
You owe him the intro to Hendrik. Two taps and it's done before the meeting.
Rosa started school in January. He'll be glad you remembered.
The Q3 drawings are still open, five days running. They're ready to send.
Pulled from your calendar, mail and WhatsApp at 08:00
Quiet for 8 months. In town 12 to 20 Aug.
Priya NaidooLisbon photos23 daysDan WeissQ3 drawings + Hendrik intro5 days
BongiCoffee, Thandi's neighbour2 monthsDan WeissMeeting, brief readyThu 10:00Marco FerettiSalt & Stone, four of youThu 19:00
Thandi MokoenaWeekly, never lapsesSolidThe whole file, the rope, the box, and the honest no.
Everything I know, I learned from your own things. It lives on the box in your home, nowhere else. Delete anything and it's gone.
"Nina doesn't eat shellfish"
FROM WHATSAPP · 2 FEB 2024"Marco moved to Milan"
FROM EMAIL · 14 MAR 2025"Prefers Thursday evenings"
INFERRED FROM CALENDAR · 40+ INSTANCES"Ana is a paediatrician"
FROM WHATSAPP · 8 JUN 2025That's the whole file.
I draft it and wait. Nothing happens until you say so.
I set everything up. One tap from you makes it real.
I handle it and tell you after. You can always undo.
Bookings sits at suggest and approve. That's why the R1 800 deposit came to you first.
Marco replied on WhatsApp: "Thursday works."
Tap to answerPick how I live with you. No countdowns, no tricks, same me either way.
The always-on box. Everything lives on it and it never sleeps.
Stays on your phone. Everything happens there.
Already have a box that stays on? Use that.
I'd say the box. It's yours outright, and so is everything on it.
I can't hold Marrow from here. They only take group bookings by phone.
Two ways forward:
Marrow · Bree Street · opens 09:00
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