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Encyclopedia Botanica, a Plant Catalogue That Stays on Your Phone

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An offline-first houseplant care catalogue for tracking plants, notes, photos, and locally added entries.

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Encyclopedia Botanica treats plant care as a small piece of personal data infrastructure: logs, photos, and additions remain on the device, with export/import backups and an A4 print view. Its most unusual flourish is an AI-assisted way to add plants by copying a prompt, pasting back the answer, and folding the result into the local catalogue.

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The Song Resumes After the Story

August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.

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