Quirewell

Quirewell is a quiet flashcard game set in a little clay corner bookshop. You are the new clerk, and the shop's whole catalogue lives in the card boxes under the counter. Learn it card by card, at your own pace, until a customer can ask for any book and you know exactly where it sits. Every card is a book on the shelf. The face shows the title on the spine. On the back: the author, the shelf code, the price pencilled on the flyleaf, and one detail of the edition worth remembering. Turn the card, recall what you can, and mark it honestly: Remember, Hard or Forgot. Forgot is a normal mark here, never a failure. The shop is patient. KEY FEATURES ✓ 360 hand-written cards across 12 departments: Travel, Poetry, Natural History, Cookery, Children's, Maps & Atlases, Philosophy, Detective, Gardening, Crafts, Rare Editions and Local History ✓ Five card boxes with spaced repetition at 1, 2, 5, 10 and 21 days, so each card comes back just before you would forget it ✓ Three quiz modes that open as you learn: pick the right back out of four, recall and check yourself, or type the shelf code from memory ✓ Look-alike books from the fifth department on: near-identical titles and namesake authors that pay 30% more bookmarks when you tell them apart ✓ Shifts at the counter: at 60% mastery, customers walk in and ask for books from memory. Ten requests, 25 seconds each, double pay and tips for accuracy ✓ Furnish the shop with bookmarks: a travel shelf, a rolling ladder, a mushroom lamp, a card cabinet, a brass cash drawer, a window display, a returns trolley, an indigo kettle and Foliant, the shop cat ✓ 20 owl-seal ex-libris to collect and 18 achievements to earn ✓ Day streaks with goals at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 100 days, plus shields that cover a missed day ✓ Write your own cards, and tuck away any card you don't want in the deck ✓ A full catalogue with search by author, title or shelf code, and a bookseller's handbook of 16 short articles on shelf codes, bindings, formats and editions ✓ A ledger with your retention curve, a twelve-week review calendar and time spent in sessions HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the card boxes and pick a department. 2. A session brings back up to 12 cards due today and up to 8 new ones. 3. Answer each card, turn it over and mark it Remember, Hard or Forgot. 4. Earn bookmarks, watch the department's mastery grow and see where each card went. 5. Spend bookmarks on furnishings that make sessions longer, add hints or raise tips. 6. Reach 60% in a department and take a shift at the counter. Reach 100% and press its ex-libris seal. WHY QUIREWELL Spaced repetition usually comes with a spreadsheet look. Quirewell wraps the same proven method in a small, soft world sculpted from clay: matte shelves, rounded spines and a sleeping cat on the returns trolley. Sessions take a few minutes and the copy is short, like captions on catalogue cards. There is no timer anywhere except the counter, and nothing scolds you for forgetting. PRIVACY Quirewell works fully offline. No account, no ads, no tracking. Your progress stays on your device. Pour a cup of tea, turn the sign to Open and learn the shop by heart.