Archive
Quivy keeps your whole life, so the interface is an archive that keeps things properly. Every agent action arrives as a catalogued card: punched along the margin, stamped with an accession number, its provenance typed in mono. The system is dry on purpose. When software acts on your behalf, the audit trail should be the interface, not a settings page. Memory is the reading room, and the proudest screen in this direction.
- Risk
- Stationery nostalgia could swamp utility. Justified by one card grammar across all twenty screens: same punched edge, same stamp position, same ledger lines. It reads as an archive, never a scrapbook.
- Muse
- Naturalist field notebooks and museum accession cards. Graph paper, typed labels, date stamps, index tabs.
- Motion personality
- Card drawer. 280 to 380 ms slides on cubic-bezier(.32,.72,0,1). New items file themselves into the stack; waiting is a pencil line drawing itself in mono.
- Navigation
- Die-cut index tabs on the right edge of the top sheet (Thread, People, Memory), pulled like divider tabs in a card index. People, Memory, Autonomy and Upgrade open as sheets over the thread. No bottom bar.
Intake
S01 · S02 · S03
Your life, kept in order.
Quivy watches your messages, email, calendar, photos, contacts and files, and acts before you ask.
Everything stays on a small box in your home, or on this phone. Nobody else's computer.
Connect the collection.
Quivy files what it finds. Nothing leaves your hardware.
First pass through the archive. Five things worth a look. Keep, discard, or correct any card.
The thread
S04 · S05 · S06 · S12 · S18Morning. 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 filed below.
Marco replied. Thursday 19:00 suits him, and Ana's in.
The Lisbon photos, sent to Priya at 16:42.
The Hendrik intro is drafted for Dan.
Dan Weiss, Thursday 10:00. Your brief is ready.
Q3 drawings to Dan: 5 days out.
Lisbon photos to Priya: 23 days out.
Marco lands today, in town to 20 Aug. Three times suit you both.
Coffee with Bongi: 2 months out.
Nothing needs you before nine.
Ask him directly, or say it in your own words and I'll carry it.
The reconnection
S07 · S08 · S09 · S10 · S11
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 times, three tables. Party of four.
Waiting on M. Feretti
Marco's not on Quivy, so there's no agent on his side. I've messaged him on WhatsApp; waiting on a human. I'll nudge him tomorrow morning if he's quiet.
You set bookings to suggest and approve, so this one is your call.
Table held.
Ana's inChanged your mind? Release by Thursday noon and the R1 800 comes back in full.
Loose ends
S13 · S14 · S20
The Lisbon photos have been sitting for 23 days. I've picked three. One tap and they're with Priya.
Hendrik
Q3 set, ready to sendStart with the drawings. The rest follows.
I can't hold Marrow from here. They only take group bookings by phone.
I can call them when they open at 09:00, or hold Pier 42 right now.
The reading room
S15 · S16 · S17 · S19Dan's brief is on the table for 10:00.
People
The index
The reading room
4 entriesEverything I know about your life, and where I learned it. It sits on the box in your study. Delete anything here and it's gone, from the box and from me.
Nina doesn't eat shellfish.
Marco moved to Milan.
Prefers Thursday evenings.
Ana is a paediatrician.
Nothing else. Nothing anywhere else.
How much rope should I get? Set it per part of your life.
Autonomy
Per domainI draft it. Nothing leaves without your word.
I tee it up. You tap once.
I handle it and file the receipt.
Where the archive lives
Always on. Every photo, every thread, under your roof.
Stays on the phone.
Same archive, on hardware you own.
No countdowns · No fake discounts · Cancel when you like
Token legend
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