Compost Log
A private compost log in one HTML file on your machine: no account, no cloud, no server to talk to.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
A compost heap is a slow animal that lives at the bottom of the garden, and like all animals it does better with a little attention. The Compost Log keeps the attention regular: the date, whether you turned it, the temperature, its condition — from Cooking to Suspiciously quiet — and notes. Good compost is mostly patience, and this is where the patience gets written down.
What it keeps
- Datedate
- Turnedyes / no
- Temperature (°C)number
- Conditionchoice · Cooking / Steaming nicely / Sleepy / Suspiciously quiet
- Notesnotes
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Whatever you put in (Date, Turned, Temperature (°C) and Condition) stays inside the file itself. There is no account to lapse, no plan to be sunset, no migration e-mail with a deadline in it. A decade of compost log entries is a decade of your own handwriting, kept in a document you can back up like any other.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
Export to CSV from inside the tool and open it in anything: a spreadsheet, another app, a text editor. Or keep the HTML file: it is plain, readable, and inspectable; you can open it in a text editor and see your own rows sitting there. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Who else sees this
Nobody. Your Date, Turned, Temperature (°C) and Condition never leave the file on your own disk. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, and no code in the file that opens a network connection, pull the cable and watch it carry on working. How privacy works across the Homestead tools →
Questions people ask
How often should I turn my compost, and why log it?
Every week or two while it is active, though your heap will tell you its own schedule. Logging turns and temperatures shows you the rhythm — when it cooked, when it went sleepy — so next year's heap benefits from this year's notes.
What does the temperature tell me?
A hot heap, roughly 50 to 65 degrees, is working hard and killing weed seeds; a cooling one wants turning, moisture, or more greens. The log turns single readings into a trend you can act on.
Is this another app that needs an account for, of all things, compost?
No — it is one HTML file that runs offline in your browser, no account, no cloud. Nothing leaves the page. Your heap's private life remains, fittingly, a household matter.
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Fits your knife at weight 1. Nothing here is final, Knife follows Life. Reforging within your tier is free, forever. Add it, drop it, reforge it later; the file stays yours either way.