Built for serious treasure hunters
The field journal for treasure hunters
Save clues. Connect ideas. Analyze images for hidden detail. Study USGS topo maps. Plan expeditions down to the gear list. Shadow Quest keeps your whole hunt in one place.
Everything an armchair sleuth needs
Clues, ideas & knowns
Capture every fragment, tag it, link it. See your theory as a graph or work through it as a board.
Image workbench
Mirror, rotate, invert, channel-split. Annotate clue photos and overlay two images to spot what's hidden.
Topo map studio
Free USGS Topo, OpenTopoMap, satellite, and OSM layers. Drop pins tied to your clues.
BOTG planning
Trip itineraries, waypoints, weather, gear lists, team & safety, and a printable trip plan to take into the field.
Plan before you go
A planning tool, not a navigator. Print your trip plan with maps and clues so you have it offline when cell service drops.
Private by default
Every hunt is yours alone. No leaderboards, no community feed, no sharing your best ideas.
See it in action
From the first clue on the desk to the trail you'll walk in the morning.
Chrome extension · Free
Clip the web straight into your hunt
Research never happens in one tab. The Shadow Quest web clipper lets you right-click anything on any page and drop it straight into the hunt you were last working on — no copy-paste, no lost links.
- Save selected text. Highlight a passage, right-click, save.
- Save images. Grab any image with its source page.
- Save links. Bank a URL with title and context.
- Visible-area screenshots. Snapshot the page exactly as you see it.
How to install (30 seconds)
- Unzip the downloaded file.
- Open
chrome://extensions. - Toggle on Developer mode (top-right).
- Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
- Generate an API token in your account settings, paste it into the extension's options page.
Stop scattering your work across notebooks.
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