In: computer. Also: web-archiving.

Offline

In computer technology and telecommunications, offline indicates a disconnected state.
I would even increase the definition outside of technology.

“Offline” can refer to either computing activities performed while disconnected from the Internet, or alternatives to Internet activities.
The term “offline” is sometimes used interchangeably with the acronym “IRL”, meaning “in real life”.

Examples related to technology:

Offline e-mail
Offline browsing
Offline messages
Offline storage
Offline media playing

Storing web pages offline

Storing web pages for offline usage, while disconnected from the Internet, or in places where Internet is not available (such as a plane, or train)
There’s also value in archiving pages before the page disappears from the Internet either because of censorship, or because the website changes for some reason.
Keeping the page offline makes it possible to read the content on an e-book reader such as Kindle.

Web archiving tools

Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for future researchers, historians, or the public.

https://github.com/croqaz/web-snap – Capture complete web pages in a single file and view them offline
https://github.com/croqaz/clean-mark – Convert an article into clean text
https://github.com/danburzo/percollate – CLI tool to turn web pages into beautiful, readable PDF, EPUB, or HTML docs
https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith – Rust CLI app
Bundle any web page into a single HTML file. You can finally replace that gazillion of open tabs with a gazillion of .html files stored somewhere on your precious little drive.
monolith -acjiIfF = Isolate, no CSS, no JS, no fonts, no images, no audio, no frames
https://github.com/go-shiori/obelisk – Go CLI app, inspired by Monolith
obelisk --verbose --no-css --no-js --no-medias --no-embeds
https://github.com/wabarc/cairn – A TypeScript implementation of Obelisk
https://archivebox.io – Open source self-hosted web archiving solutions
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox – Open source self-hosted web archiving, written in Python
https://github.com/archivy/archivy – self-hosted knowledge repository to preserve useful content that contributes to your own personal, searchable and extendable wiki
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile – Web Extension for Firefox/Chrome/Edge and CLI tool to save a faithful copy of a web page in a single HTML file
https://github.com/i5ik/22120 – self-host the Internet with an offline archive
https://github.com/machawk1/wail – GUI atop multiple web archiving tools to preserve and replay web pages
https://github.com/machawk1/warcreate – Google Chrome Extension, for creating WARC files from any webpage
https://github.com/dosyago/DownloadNet – All content you browse online, available offline. Search through the full-text of all pages in your browser history.

Also:

https://codeberg.org/oppenlab/gempub – application/gpub+zip media type (“gempub” or “GPUB”), a proposed new e-book file format
https://github.com/cyphar/paperback – Paper-based backup scheme, secure and easy-to-use. Backups are encrypted, and the secret key is split into numerous “key shards” which can be stored separately
https://notabug.org/ploum/offpunk – Offline-First browser for the smolnet; browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web

Apps:

Offline documentation

Documentation for tools, programming languages and libraries.

https://devdocs.io/ - for Chromium browsers?
https://github.com/cheat/cheat - cheatsheet pages
https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer - fast implementation of tldr in Rust
https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr - different client apps
https://zealdocs.org/ - cross-platform app

Internet in a box

Internet-in-a-Box brings the power of a free Digital Library of Alexandria into the hands of any school, hospital, or community worldwide

is used in libraries and medical clinics
is in use in more than 20 countries, including remote mountain villages in India
brings the best of the World’s Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books and others) to those who are offline

The offline internet archive

How to put the Internet in a Box podcast

https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv1s

Access free knowledge - even offline

Store Wikipedia or any website on your mobile phone or computer, easily
Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks
It makes knowledge available to people with no or limited internet access
The software as well as the content is free to use for anyone

Offline thinking

Pencil and paper thinking

By Daniel G. Siegel, posted April 6, 2021
https://dgsiegel.net/articles/pencil-and-paper-thinking

The rolodex was replaced by your Contacts app, but its core is still the analog bundle of mostly-outdated information about your friends, colleagues, and peers.
A phone can still be dialed with a string of numbers like it was a hundred years ago, and we’re still forced to remember these numbers — or look them up when we need them.
When you open your favorite word processor you still see a blank page displaying an empty piece of paper. Why do we call these tools word processors when they actually are paper processors?
Most websites are mockups of papers as well. Text — line by line, and page by page. Maybe even an endless piece of paper, like your Twitter or Facebook timeline. Yes, we have hyperlinks, but are they really much more powerful than references?
Our keyboard and mouse are basically a typewriter on steroids. Sure, we rely on Copy and Paste, but a secretary from 50 years ago was pretty resourceful and ingenious.
Our apps are still as detached from each other as they were when they were physical machines on our desks, so it is almost impossible to transfer data between applications, which would enrich it in the process.

Print out your code on paper

https://medium.com/@tashian/print-out-your-code-on-paper-7c760a376bca

Print it out
Find a quiet room
Bring a pencil
Leave all devices behind. Fold up your laptop. Leave your phone at your desk. This is between you and the code…
Sit there and read your code, line by line. Mark it up as you go.

Digital Shabbat

https://dev.to/evilmartians/how-a-month-without-computers-changed-me-1ho4
https://medium.com/faithtech/should-i-take-a-digital-sabbath-866c4f1aa469 – Take a Digital Sabbath
https://bustle.com/p/45-things-you-can-do-at-home-that-dont-involve-a-screen-22624777 - Things you can do that don’t involve a screen