Stay in touch
Tools for messaging and sharing that can work between nearby devices — with or without the wider internet.
Portable · offline-first · yours to carry
Survival in a BoxI am alive.
A portable collection of tools, systems and knowledge that helps people communicate, learn, repair, organise and operate independently — even when the internet is not there to help.
Everything on this page works from local files. No account. No connection required.
Guided
Guide me
Answer a few plain questions and find the most useful next step for your situation — in about a minute.
Start the guided path BrowseExplore
Look around on your own terms: communication, knowledge, repair, networking, organising and tools.
Browse the collectionWhat it holds
Useful things, gathered in one place you can carry.
Think of it as a well-packed kit for a digital world that sometimes fails: ways to talk, things to learn from, tools to fix and build with — kept together so they work wherever you open them.
Keep learning
Carefully chosen reference material and guides, readable offline — practical help, community information, repair know-how.
Fix and build
A curated software collection for real jobs: radios, networks, phones and computers — verified, checksums included.
Get things done
Support for planning, record-keeping and coordinating — the quiet work of keeping a household or community moving.
Reuse technology
Give older laptops, phones and routers a second life instead of treating them as waste.
Operate alone
Designed to keep working when services, accounts and connections are unavailable — you are not locked to anyone’s cloud.
How it meets you
It works with what you have — not what you wish you had.
Different situations mean different devices and different connections. Survival in a Box is honest about what is possible at each level, and degrades gracefully rather than failing.
A
Full device, good connection
Rich interface, the whole collection, and — when available — optional sharing with other trusted nodes.
B
Modern device, no connection
Everything still works from the copy itself: read, learn, install tools, prepare. This page is proof.
C
Older or simpler device
Plain pages and text instructions stay usable on modest hardware and older browsers.
D
Almost nothing working
Human-readable labels, printed guides and clear organisation so a person can still find and use what is inside.
Survival in a Box does not merely preserve technology. It helps people understand, recover and use technology to retain the ability to act, communicate, organise and build independent systems. Guiding principle
Honest limits: this demonstration shows the concept. It does not yet detect your hardware, connect to radios, or run network services — those capabilities are being built in later phases and will be shown when they truly work.