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What are some essential apps and tools for communicating, gathering information, doing work, etc, completely off the grid? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What would you use in your community to use if they were totally off the grid, with bad phone signal and no internet connection?

What apps and tool would you recommend them, so they don't feel like in the stone age?

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[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

I'd recommend Kiwi. You can use it combined with Wikipedia's ZIM files to have access to just about all of Wikipedia offline.

I would recommend installing all of Libre Office's programs for work purposes. It's free and open source so you won't have to deal with licenses and unwanted updates.

Calibre would be a good tool to have for reading ebooks and converting files.

There's also apps like RedditOffline so if you have an intermittent connection you can browse threads offline. I imagine similar services exist for other platforms.

[–] help@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Manyverse might be good for that. It's P2P social networking that syncs whenever you've got internet.

The entire suite of simple mobile apps is also really good, the Notes app in particular seems useful.

Organic Maps or OsmAnd will let you download maps offline and navigate with just GPS.

Aard 2 will let you browse an entire dump of Wikipedia and Wiktionary.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks, Manyverse is exactly the kind of offline p2p app I was looking for. Do you know of any other offline/mesh networked apps? I really wish there was a replacement for the internet that was mesh networked

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Is Briar kind of similar to Manyverse? I feel like from what I recall it can use LAN networks, Bluetooth, and the internet.

[–] FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Obsidian.md

[–] fresh@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t live without Obsidian. There are other similar linked note taking apps but Obsidian is the best in my opinion, not least because it just uses your folder structure and plain text markdown. I can’t imagine doing research, or just organizing my life and thoughts, without it.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you somehow sync to your phone?

[–] fresh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I use iCloud, but I think you can use any cloud service. Works great. Never had a sync issue. They also have a paid service they provide for clouding syncing.

[–] Teon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

F-droid has apps that do not need internet access for productivity / entertainment.

[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it -5 points 1 year ago

No idea, every app that involve personal relationship look shitty to me. There is no genuine share but most like useless sharing with emoticons or just few words to say nothing. Maybe wasn't too bad in stone age if we talking just about relations with other humans.