Foraging Log
A private foraging 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.
Every forager has a spot they would not tell their own mother about. The Foraging Log keeps the record you would never put in a cloud account: what you found, where, when, and how sure you were — Certain, Fairly sure, or the wise old Left it alone. The location field stays safe inside the file, because a good chanterelle patch is earned, not shared.
What it keeps
- Findshort text
- Where — safe in this file, it never phones homenotes
- Datedate
- Confidencechoice · Certain / Fairly sure / Left it alone
- 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 (Find, Where — safe in this file, it never phones home, Date and Confidence) 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 foraging 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 Find, Where — safe in this file, it never phones home, Date and Confidence 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
Is it safe to write down my secret foraging spots in an app?
In this one, yes. The log is a single HTML file that runs offline in your browser, with no account and no server — your spots never leave the page and never phone home. The file is yours forever, and so is the patch.
What do I record in a foraging log?
Each entry takes the find, where it was, the date, your confidence in the identification, and notes. The confidence field includes Left it alone, which is the correct answer more often than pride would like.
Can a foraging log help me identify mushrooms or plants?
No, and be wary of anything that says it can. This keeps your own honest records of finds and locations; identification stays with your field guides and your good sense.
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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.