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Works with the internet off.

Your recipes, your garden, your records, your reference library: real apps on your own machine. No account, no server in the loop, nothing that can be shut off, priced up, or taken away.

The dependence audit

Count your cloud logins

Dependence

Your notes, your manuals, your plans: behind logins, on servers, useful only while someone else’s business model holds.

Reach

Modern software phones home by default. You do not know what leaves your machine, and you cannot check.

Fragility

An outage, a price change, a sunset email: any one of them can separate you from your own information.

This is the opposite bet: software as self-reliance. Files on your disk, apps that run sealed, and promises you can verify instead of trust.

How it works

Nothing between you and your files

Local is free. No email asked.

Download it, point it at a folder, done. The full local experience requires nothing from us, ever, and never asks who you are.

Sealed by construction

Apps cannot reach the network. That is architecture, not policy, and you can watch it hold in your browser’s own dev tools.

Sync only if you choose it

Everything works with no connection and no account. A subscription adds backup and other devices; refusing it costs you nothing. And if you do sync, it is end-to-end encrypted: the server holds bytes it cannot read.

The toolkit

The homestead's paperwork, kept sharp

editorhere today

Plain text and Markdown for everything. The one tool that never dies.

cookbookon the way

Recipes and preservation notes. Printable, greppable, yours.

bedson the way

The garden log: plantings, varieties, harvests, what worked three years ago.

upkeepon the way

Every system on the property: serials, filter sizes, service history.

vitalson the way

The household health log, on your disk and nowhere else.

logson the way

Running records of anything: water, fuel, supplies, weather.

And anything worth keeping can live in the folder today as plain files: manuals, maps, field notes, readable with no app at all.

The promise

Turn the wifi off. Everything on this page stays true.

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