REBOOTLIBRARY

What we need to know
to begin again.

A practical, human-reviewed field library for keeping people alive, building resilient communities, and carrying knowledge forward.

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ACTIVELY CURATED
7TIME
HORIZONS
“Survival is a skill.
Recovery is a shared practice.”
08skill domains
125planned guides
02open licenses

Start where you are.

Needs change as a crisis unfolds. Choose a horizon to surface the most relevant capabilities—not a prediction, but a practical sequence.

Hour 0–72

Preserve life

Triage immediate danger and secure the essentials before systems fail further.

  • Safe water
  • First aid
  • Shelter
  • Trusted information
Day 3–5

Find stability

Establish routines, assess supplies, and form a dependable local group.

  • Food inventory
  • Sanitation
  • Communications
  • Group safety
Week 1–4

Build a community

Shift from individual response to shared systems and accountable roles.

  • Food preservation
  • Waste systems
  • Care teams
  • Fair decisions
Month 2–6

Create resilience

Develop repeatable food, repair, energy, and exchange systems.

  • Seasonal growing
  • Tool repair
  • Local power
  • Trade records
Month 6–12

Make institutions

Turn working practices into durable civic, educational, and health institutions.

  • Seed cycles
  • Public health
  • Schools
  • Local governance
Year 1–5

Restore industry

Recover regional manufacturing, transport, science, and specialist training.

  • Metalworking
  • Machine tools
  • Chemistry
  • Regional logistics
Year 5–10+

Renew civilization

Connect regions, preserve culture, and design systems worthy of the future.

  • Power grids
  • Research
  • Libraries
  • Regional compacts

The essential skill index.

Skills are organized by both time horizon and domain. The overlap matters: sanitation in hour one is not sanitation in year five.

01

Water & sanitation

Source, treat, store, and safely return water.

18 planned guides
02

Food & agriculture

Grow, preserve, forage, and steward soil.

24 planned guides
03

Health & medicine

Triage, prevent disease, and organize care.

21 planned guides
04

Shelter & making

Build, repair, heat, sew, and fabricate.

16 planned guides
05

Energy & mechanics

Maintain tools and restore useful power.

14 planned guides
06

Community & care

Resolve conflict and support one another.

12 planned guides
07

Governance & justice

Make legitimate, fair, accountable decisions.

9 planned guides
08

Learning & memory

Teach skills and preserve shared knowledge.

11 planned guides
ACUTE RESPONSE INDEX

When the horizon collapses to today.

The acute-response layer brings immediate action into the long-term library: prepare households, protect responders, care for people, and keep information moving. These are rebootlib's own field guides, written for standalone use.

01

Emergency planning

Turn uncertainty into a household and neighborhood plan that can work without power, water, or a network.

Read rebootlib guide 02

Solar storms and prolonged outages

Understand extreme space weather and prepare for uneven loss of power, water, communications, and supplies.

Read rebootlib guide 03

Biological incidents

Respond to a suspected biological exposure, reach appropriate medical care, and keep essential household routines working during a public-health emergency.

Read rebootlib guide 04

Digital hygiene

Keep identity, access, evidence, and trusted communication available when devices and accounts become vulnerable.

Read rebootlib guide 05

Mesh communications

Use local, device-to-device messaging as one layer in a communications plan.

Read rebootlib guide 06

Scene safety

Create enough order around an incident to prevent additional injuries and make professional handoff possible.

Read rebootlib guide 07

Trauma care

Organize immediate lifesaving priorities while staying within training and getting professional help moving.

Read rebootlib guide 08

Disaster psychology

Support clear decisions, dignity, and connection when stress makes ordinary thinking harder.

Read rebootlib guide 09

Light search and rescue

Conduct only low-risk searches with accountability, communication, and clear limits.

Read rebootlib guide 10

Shelter management

Turn a temporary refuge into a safer, more accountable place to sleep and receive care.

Read rebootlib guide 11

Fire safety

Reduce ignition and smoke hazards, evacuate early, and only attempt extinguishment within safe limits.

Read rebootlib guide 12

Communications

Create a trusted information flow for alerts, requests, status reports, and coordination.

Read rebootlib guide 13

Essential survival

Prioritize the conditions that keep people alive and able to make good decisions.

Read rebootlib guide 14

Pediatric blast injury

Recognize that children can deteriorate quickly after blast exposure and prioritize professional assessment.

Read rebootlib guide
Use with care. Medical, structural, fire, and rescue guidance requires qualified local review and appropriate training. Rebootlib does not certify it.

Field guides

72HWater & sanitation

Making questionable water safer

A decision tree for settling, filtering, boiling, and storing water when normal treatment is unavailable.

Expert reviewed 8 min readUpdated 18 Sep 2026
72HHealth & medicine

Triage and the first care station

Organize a clean, calm place for assessment, basic first aid, records, and referral.

In review 12 min readUpdated 12 Sep 2026
5DCommunity & care

A five-day neighborhood compact

Set expectations for check-ins, shared work, safeguarding, supplies, and conflict resolution.

Field verified 9 min readUpdated 06 Sep 2026
1MFood & agriculture

Preserving a harvest without a grid

Choose safe methods for drying, fermenting, salting, and cool storage based on local conditions.

Expert reviewed 14 min readUpdated 02 Sep 2026
6MShelter & making

A community tool library

Inventory, maintain, lend, and reproduce the hand tools needed for a settlement to work.

Field verified 11 min readUpdated 28 Aug 2026
1YGovernance & justice

Designing legitimate local decisions

A practical framework for mandates, transparent records, appeals, rotation, and consent.

In review 16 min readUpdated 21 Aug 2026
5YEnergy & mechanics

From salvage to machine shop

Plan the staged recovery of measurement, fasteners, lathes, milling, and safe apprenticeship.

AI draft 18 min readUpdated 15 Aug 2026
10YLearning & memory

A library that can outlive its hardware

Preserve essential texts across paper, durable media, open formats, catalogs, and oral teaching.

Expert reviewed 13 min readUpdated 09 Aug 2026

Knowledge needs
a visible history.

AI-assisted drafts and human edits live in one transparent chain. Readers can see what changed, why it changed, and who accepted responsibility for the review.

Show the evidenceEvery consequential claim should name its source, conditions, and limits.
Label machine workAI can accelerate a draft. It cannot silently become trusted instruction.
Work without a networkPlain text, printable pages, and open exports keep the archive useful offline.

Making questionable water safer

Expert reviewed
Draft generatedModel and prompt fingerprint recordedv0.1 · 14 Aug 2026
Technical reviewDosage table removed; jurisdictional guidance linkedv0.4 · 03 Sep 2026
Editorial acceptanceLimitations clarified and print layout checkedv1.0 · 18 Sep 2026
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