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Comment by JKCalhoun | Hacker News Reader

More and more I believe that offline is bestline.

Some of us remember when the only password we needed was a 4-digit pin for the ATM.

I swear if there was an offline version of Stack Overflow (like you can pull down a minimal Wikipedia) I could go days without internet.

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It would be a dream if people just wrote documentation.

Writing documentation is easy. Writing documents is hard.

Who are you writing for, what competency, which part of the documentation quadrant, what style...

Dash makes offline copies of StackOverflow easily browsable. Maybe this could suit you!

https://kapeli.com/dash

That's throwing out the baby with the bathwater, going totally offline. You are in control of how much time you spend online, both mobile as well as at your desk. Just switch off automatic synchronisation on mobile devices and you're free from needless attention-grabbing noises from the things. Tell people to call you if they really need to get hold of you, now, at this moment. As long as you are the one who controls your devices instead of those devices controlling you the possibility of going online is a book. Use it when needed, no more, no less. Try to disable as many attention-grabbing features of connected devices, e.g rigourously block all forms of advertising on multiple levels - router, device and application. This is what I've been doing since... well, since 24h internet access became a thing really. It was clear from the outset that too much of a good thing can hurt.

Kiwix has an offline Stack Overflow:

https://www.kiwix.org/en/look-at-us-we-took-stack-overflow-o...

I haven’t used it, but I’ve used their offline Wikipedia

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