The first read is done. Five things worth your eye. Keep what is useful, discard what is not, and correct me where I am wrong.
QQuivy · design direction 07
Ledger
Quivy keeps watch over a whole life, so it borrows the register of the institutions that have kept valuables for a century: bond paper, engraved guilloche, didone numerals, a wax seal pressed once per screen. Cool bond white and structural navy carry the days; vermilion appears only when something is signed. The thread reads as a ledger kept by a discreet clerk: every agent message is entered under an engraved rule, every person gets a portrait medallion, and money or trust moments are bound in a fine engraved frame. Approval is a hold, not a tap, and the seal falls with a squash.
- Risk
- Engraving clichés loom, and the cream/serif/terracotta default with them. Steered: grounds are cool bond white and navy fields, never cream; vermilion is a pinpoint; corners stay soft at 12px; guilloche does the ornament work, so hairlines and uppercase eyebrows are banned.
- Muse
- Bank-note engraving. Guilloche rosettes, didone numerals, wax seals, bond paper: the paperwork of institutions that have kept other people's valuables for a hundred years.
- Motion
- Seal press. Deliberate; engraved rules draw on before the message sets, holds last 1.4s, and the seal lands with a 160ms squash.
- Nav
- The blotter: a drawer handle at the bottom edge. Pulling it up reveals destinations set like account categories: Thread, People, Memory. Nothing else competes with the ledger.
Opening the ledger
S01 welcome · S02 connect · S03 first reading
quivy
Your life, kept on your own shelves.
Quivy reads your messages, email, calendar, photos, contacts and files, and acts before you ask. Everything lives on a small box in your home, or on this phone. Never on somebody else's computer.
The Quivy box. It sits in your home and holds everything.
Four minutes. You can delete everything, any time.
Connect your accounts
One tap each. Everything stays on your own hardware.
4of 8 connected
Gmail
Connected
Google Calendar
Connected
WhatsApp
Connected
Photos
Connected
Lightroom
Connecting
Telegram
Connect
Contacts
Connect
Notion
Connect
Nothing leaves this house while they connect.
You and Marco Feretti spoke most weeks for three years. It has been eight months.
You promised Priya the Lisbon photos 23 days ago. They are still unsent.
You keep Thursday evenings free. I will favour them when I plan.
You don't eat shellfish. I will remember when booking tables.
Over 200 contacts, sorted by how often you are in touch.
Nothing here leaves your home. Discard and it is gone for good.
The thread
S04 first run · S05 live · S06 morning brief · S12 voicequivyyour ledger
Evening. Three things need you this week: Dan on Thursday needs the Q3 drawings, Priya is still waiting on the Lisbon photos, and Marco lands in Cape Town tomorrow. All three are below.
21:40
Dan Weiss, Thursday 10:00. He will want the Q3 drawings before you sit down.
Priya Naidoo. The Lisbon photos are still unsent. I have picked three.
Marco Feretti, in town 12 to 20 August. Eight months of quiet to make up for.
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quivyyour ledger
Marco answered. Thursday at 19:00 suits him, and Ana will come too.
10:21Table held
Salt & Stone · Thu 14 Aug, 19:00
Deposit paidR1 800
0:18
Voice note · 10:23
Noted, I will ask him about Saturday instead. Separately: the Lisbon photos went to Priya at 09:15, with your note.
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quivyyour ledger
Morning. Five things on the books today, in one entry.
Tuesday 12 August
5 items
1
Dan Weiss, Thursday 10:00. Your brief is ready.
2
The Q3 drawings have been waiting 5 days.
3
The Lisbon photos for Priya, 23 days and counting.
4
Marco is in town from today, until 20 August. Three times suit you both.
5
Coffee with Bongi: two months outstanding.
Tell me which one moves first.
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quivyyour ledger
Can he do the Saturday instead? Ana too?
12:26Marco is easy either way. Your call on Thursday or Saturday.
12:2819:00Thursday 14 Aug · Salt & Stone
12:30Saturday 16 Aug · open
0:07
…and ask Marco if Ana can do the Saturday instead|
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The reconnection
S07 the drift · S08 options · S09 waiting · S10 approval · S11 receipt · S20 can't-doquivyyour ledger
You and Marco used to talk most weeks. It has been eight months.
18:06
You two, 2013.
He is in Cape Town until 20 August, and three times suit you both. Want me to hold a table?
19:00Thursday 14 Augyour usual
12:30Saturday 16 Aug
19:30Tuesday 19 Aug
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quivyyour ledger
Three evenings, three tables. Deposits are per head, and there are four of you.
Salt & Stone
Kalk Bay
R450 a head · R1 800 for four
Seafood. They know your shellfish rule.
Marrow
Bree Street
No deposit
Groups are booked by phone only.
Pier 42
V&A Waterfront
R300 a head · R1 200 for four
Harbour side, easy parking.
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Marco is not on Quivy, so there is no agent on his side. I have messaged him on WhatsApp. Now we wait on a human.
18:092:00
waiting on Marco
18:07Sent on WhatsApp: three times, Salt & Stone first.
18:08Delivered. Not yet read.
nextIf he is quiet, I will nudge him tomorrow at 09:00.
Nothing needed from you.
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quivyyour ledger
Marco said yes. Thursday suits him, and Ana is in.
18:14Salt & Stone
Kalk Bay
Thursday 14 August, 19:00 · four of you
R1 800
deposit · R450 a head · comes off the bill
You set bookings to suggest and approve, so this one is your call. Full refund until Wednesday 19:00.
Approved, 18:14.The table is being held. The receipt follows.
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quivyyour ledger
Done. Here is the receipt for your records.
18:16Table held
Salt & Stone, Kalk Bay
WhenThursday 14 August, 19:00
PartyFour. You, Marco, Ana, and one more seat.
DepositR1 800 paid · R450 a head
CalendarsHeld for you and Marco. Ana is noted.
At the tableThe kitchen knows you eat no shellfish.
ConfirmationSSK 1408 42
Full refund until Wednesday 19:00. After that the deposit is theirs.
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I can't hold Marrow from here. They take group bookings by phone only.
18:08
Marrow, Bree Street. No deposit.
I can call them when they open at 09:00, or hold Pier 42 right now.
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Outstanding items
S13 the loose end · S14 the brief before the meetingquivyyour ledger
The Lisbon photos have been sitting for 23 days. I have picked three. One tap and they are with Priya.
09:15
For Priya Naidoo
Promised 23 days ago
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Dan at ten, two hours from now. Here is what matters.
08:00
Dan Weiss
Client. You last sat down on 4 March, over five months ago.
You owe him the introduction to Hendrik.
Two lines from you and it is done.
Rosa started school in January.
He will like that you remembered.
The Q3 drawings are still open. He will ask after them.
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Kept in the vault
S15 people · S16 memory · S17 autonomyPeoplethe accounts you keep
Drifting
Marco Feretti
Eight months quiet. In town this week, dinner Thursday.
Owed by you
Priya Naidoo
The Lisbon photos
Dan Weiss
The Q3 drawings
Bongi
A coffee, long promised
Steady
Thandi Mokoena
You spoke Sunday. Nothing owed, nothing drifting.
Memorywhat I know, and how
Everything I have kept, and where I learned it. These live on the box in your study; only you can see them. Delete a line and it is gone, with nowhere else to go.
"Nina doesn't eat shellfish."
From WhatsApp, 2 February 2024
Deleted from the box.
"Marco moved to Milan."
From an email, 14 March 2025
Deleted from the box.
"Prefers Thursday evenings."
Read from your calendar, across 40-odd instances
Deleted from the box.
"Ana is a paediatrician."
From WhatsApp, 8 June 2025
Deleted from the box.
Try it. Delete a line above, then undo it.
Autonomyhow much rope I get
Ask me first
Nothing moves until you say so.
Suggest and I'll approve
I do the work, you sign it off.
Just do it
I act, and tell you after.
Messages & replies
Calendar & scheduling
Bookings & spending behind tonight's approval
Files & photos
Change these any time. Changes take effect at once.
Beyond the thread
S18 lockscreen · S19 upgrade
Tuesday 12 August
07:12
quivy
Morning brief: five things today
Dan Thursday 10:00 · Q3 drawings, 5 days · Lisbon photos, 23 days · Marco in town · coffee with Bongi
quivy · needs an answer
Salt & Stone can move Thursday to 18:30
Marco and Ana still can. They need an answer by 21:00 tonight, or 19:00 stands.
Swipe up to open the ledger
Three ways to keep meall of them on hardware you own
The one I would suggest
The box sits on your shelf and holds everything.
Quivy Home
$279once, then $24 a month
Always on, so I can work while you sleep.
Quivy Litea good start
$12a year
Stays on this phone. Everything I know, I know here only.
Your own hardware
$24a month
Always on, on a machine you already own.
Prices in US dollars. No countdowns, no lock-in. Cancel and your data stays with you.
Token legend
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Type
Display, kept in order
Title, Salt & Stone
R1 800
Headline, names and rows
Thread. The agent's voice sets in Inter, never the serif.
Body. Longer entries and explanations.
Caption. Provenance, sub-lines, fine print.
Meta. Stamps and times, sentence case.
Spacing & radius
--sp-1 · 4--sp-2 · 8--sp-3 · 12--sp-4 · 16--sp-5 · 20--sp-6 · 24--sp-8 · 32--sp-12 · 48--r-s · 6--r-m · 12--r-l · 18--r-sheet · 24--r-pillCorners stay soft at 12px so the engraving never reads as a bank's letterhead.
Motion · "seal press"
--dur-press
140ms--ease-press · cubic-bezier(0.3,0,0.2,1)--dur-set
320ms--ease-set · cubic-bezier(0.22,1,0.36,1)--dur-draw
560ms--ease-draw · cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.15,1)--dur-ceremony
980ms--ease-set · the reconnection breathes longer--dur-hold
1400mslinear fill · hold-to-approve--dur-seal
160ms--ease-seal · cubic-bezier(0.3,1.35,0.5,1) · the squashOnly transform and opacity animate. Arrival: an engraved rule draws (scaleX), then the message sets 14px up. Patience: a guilloche rosette turns at 90 seconds a revolution. Reduced motion: cross-fades, rules already drawn, rosette still.
Quivy · design07 · Ledger
Bodoni Moda + Inter · bond, navy, one drop of sealing wax