Follow something real.
Study light, sound, color, lettering, patterns, repairs, and more. Filter for indoors or outdoors and choose a comfortable place.
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE EVERYDAY
There’s more here
than you think.
The light on a wall. The rhythm of a street. The stories in an ordinary object. Sidequest helps you look closer—and keep what you discover.
Try a guided expedition ↗Coming to iPhone · Planned US $4.99, paid once
12 expeditions · No subscription · No account
Awaiting App Store review · Status checked September 17, 2026
SIDEQUEST / FIELD GUIDE NO. 01
The light atlas
One place. Four ways of seeing.
20 MINUTES / ANYWHERE
LESS GUESSING. MORE NOTICING.
A complete expedition,
one observation at a time.
Four stops. Your own pace.
Each stop gives you a specific observation task and a question to investigate. Write what you notice. Close the app and resume your draft later.
Keep a new perspective.
Your four observations become a dated field report. Revisit it in your notebook, share the text, or export a printable PDF from the iPhone app.
NEW / RETURN VISITS
Same place.
A different story.
Come back to the window tomorrow. Study that object again next month. Return visits pair fresh observations with an earlier report, so you can see what changed—and what you missed.
Start with fresh eyes.
Your previous notes stay folded away while you observe. Open them when you are ready for a second look.
Keep both perspectives.
Compare all four stops across two visits. Share the comparison as text or a printable PDF from iPhone.
Collect ways of seeing.
Earn a stamp for each of the twelve subjects you complete. Build a collection of places and details you have actually explored.
INSIDE SIDEQUEST
A place to look closer.
A place to keep it.
12 AUTHORED EXPEDITIONS / 48 OBSERVATION STOPS
Start where you are.
A place, by ear
Separate close and distant sounds, count a repeating pattern, and write a sound portrait.
An object biography
Read the wear, design, and material clues in a familiar object. Write its museum label.
The window observatory
Observe fixed landmarks and changing details from a single comfortable viewpoint.
Your notebook.
Your observations.
The native iPhone app works offline. There is no location tracking, microphone recording, analytics, or account. Place labels are written by you. You choose whether to share a report.
The original 200 challenges and earlier memories remain in the Challenge Archive. The browser preview stores its own separate notebook on this browser and does not sync with iPhone.