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 guides planned
02

Food & agriculture

Grow, preserve, forage, and steward soil.

24 guides planned
03

Health & medicine

Triage, prevent disease, and organize care.

21 guides planned
04

Shelter & making

Build, repair, heat, sew, and fabricate.

16 guides planned
05

Energy & mechanics

Maintain tools and restore useful power.

14 guides planned
06

Community & care

Resolve conflict and support one another.

12 guides planned
07

Governance & justice

Make legitimate, fair, accountable decisions.

9 guides planned
08

Learning & memory

Teach skills and preserve shared knowledge.

11 guides planned

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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