Research Log
A private research 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.
The perfect source, found at midnight in the fourteenth open tab, is gone by morning. Research Log is the habit that saves you: a running record of what you looked into, what you found, and where it lives, kept as you go rather than reconstructed in a panic. Future-you, writing the thing up, will be quietly grateful.
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 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 research 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 entries 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 Knowledge tools →
Questions people ask
What goes into a Research Log?
Whatever your digging turns up: the questions you chased, the sources you found, the notes on what they said. The discipline is writing it down at the moment of finding, and the log makes that easy.
Who is the Research Log for?
Students, academics, journalists, and the professionally curious — anyone whose work involves finding things out and then, weeks later, proving where they found them.
Does the Research Log work offline, like in an archive or a library basement?
Yes — it's one HTML file that runs entirely in your browser, no connection or account required. Your notes and sources never leave the page, and the file is yours for good.
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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.