A household readiness system: pantry, papers, a journal, checklists, and firearms. You do not need a collection. Start with what is already in the house.
Core tracking is fully offline. Grok tools are optional and use your xAI key — never required to inventory food, documents, or guns.
Food · Essentials · Documents · Journal · Checklists · Firearms · Ammunition · Reports · Privacy · Optional Grok
| Category | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Food Stores | Complete food tracking | Brand, name, SKU, quantity, unit, servings, calories, manufacture date, and shelf life. |
| Food Stores | Meal clock vs. extras | Count in Days includes real meals in the supply clock. Coffee, spices, and oils stay in inventory without inflating “days of food.” |
| Food Stores | Expiration and rotation | Expiration is calculated from manufacture date plus shelf life. Last-checked and opened dates support inspection and FIFO rotation. |
| Food Stores | What-if and calorie reports | How many days of food for the people in Settings — or a different household size. Calorie reports use servings and activity, not a guess from the bucket art. |
| Other Essentials | Medical, tools, water, power | First-aid, batteries, fuel, lighting, water treatment, hygiene, pet supplies — anything that is not food or a firearm. |
| Other Essentials | Expiration and inspection | Manufacture, shelf life, last checked. Alerts when a kit is expired — the failure most people discover too late. |
| Other Essentials | Photos and notes | Attach photos and notes so a replacement or a family member can identify the item without you. |
| Document Center | Licenses, IDs, and files | Permits, passports, insurance, training records, manuals, wills. Link a file to a firearm, essential, or checklist — or keep it unrelated. Expiration dates feed alerts. No record limits. Included in every edition. |
| Document Center | Smart vault | Encrypt what is sensitive in the database. A will or CCW scan goes in the vault. A product manual can stay as a normal file — no need to encrypt everything. |
| Document Center | Image print set | Print the selected image, the current record, or all images — front and back of a license, without dumping the whole database into a report. |
| Journal | Text journal | Opened from the Office. A dated entry with a title, type, location, and notes — an inspection, training, a storm, or an after-action. It stays with your data. It is not posted and not uploaded. This is not the paper journal under Reports; that packet is the inventory you print. |
| Journal | Pictures | Take a still from the camera or attach an image already on disk. The preview stays with that entry. Photos are kept large enough to read a label, a serial number, or a document when you zoom in. Save after you attach one. |
| Journal | Video | Record an MP4 from the camera and microphone you pick — a USB mic instead of the one in the webcam, a StreamCam instead of the laptop camera. Open the preview, Record, then Stop. Play it back in Ready Center. Useful when a walk-through of a room or a kit is clearer than a paragraph. |
| Journal | Related to a kit item | Point the entry at a module — a firearm, a food item, an essential, or a checklist — then pick the record it belongs to. Use None when the note stands alone. The grid shows date, type, title, location, and what it is related to. |
| Journal | Video encryption | Optional, per entry. Turn it on and that MP4 is encrypted on disk, so copying the folder does not leave a movie anyone can press play on. Leave it off when the clip does not need it. Same master password. No back door. |
| Checklists | Built-in preparedness lists | Home, go-bag, vehicle, medical, communications, water and light. Ship with the app — no extra download. |
| Checklists | Have / Need / N/A | Mark what applies. Link a line to the food or essential you actually own so the list cannot claim you have what you do not. |
| Checklists | Custom and import | Create, edit, and import lists so they match this household, not a generic kit photo. |
| Firearms | Inventory that would help the police | Manufacturer, importer, model, serial, type, caliber, action, barrel, finish, dates, value, photos. One gun or a collection — same form. |
| Firearms | Maintenance and usage | Cleaning, lubrication, repairs, range days, rounds fired, location, malfunctions, next due. History stays tied to that serial. |
| Firearms | Never-cleaned and due alerts | Reminders from time or round count. A firearm with no cleaning record is called out before you find out at the worst time. |
| Ammunition | On-hand by lot | Caliber, manufacturer, bullet, grain, quantity, lot, storage location, purchase date, and price. Range use deducts from on-hand. |
| Ammunition | Purpose, not just a pile | Not Specific, Defensive, Hunting, Duty, Range, Drone. Reports and the paper journal group by purpose so duty ammo is not mixed with range leftovers. |
| Ammunition | Low-stock and fitness notes | Reorder alerts from your thresholds. Flag corrosive loads. Restrict a lot to a specific firearm when that is the only gun it feeds. |
| Reports & Alerts | Paper journal | One printable packet: firearms (with me / at home), ammunition by purpose with Used / Left, food, essentials, and a document index — no ID images. Snapshot date on the cover. Pencil is expected. |
| Reports & Alerts | HTML reports | Inventory, trading cards, bills of sale, expiring food and documents, calorie days, ammo by caliber. Print or save offline. Full reports list → |
| Reports & Alerts | Smart alerts | Maintenance, low ammo, expiring food, expiring documents, never-cleaned firearms. Temporary ignore when you already have a plan. |
| Reports & Alerts | Exports | CSV, Excel, or HTML for backup or analysis — still yours, still local. |
| Portability & Privacy | Fully portable | Run from a USB or external drive. Deploy a complete copy of the program and data. |
| Portability & Privacy | Privacy first | Offline by design. No cloud account. No data collection. Your records stay on the device you chose. |
| Password & Lock | Master password + instant lock | You set the password. There is no back door. Lock the app when you step away. |
| Encryption | AES-256 at rest | The database is encrypted with AES-256 (FIPS 197). Sensitive documents can live in that vault; ordinary manuals do not have to. Video journal clips can be encrypted on their own, per entry. |
| Optional — Grok | Bring your own key | Paste an xAI API key on Settings → System (console.x.ai — not a Grok.com chat login). Leave it blank and Ready Center stays fully offline. You pay xAI, not us. No key is required to inventory guns, ammo, food, or documents. |
| Optional — Grok | Firearm description draft | Sends manufacturer, model, and serial to xAI and copies a draft: what it is, a manufacture window, and a used-value range. You confirm before anything leaves the PC. Not an appraisal — verify before Save. |
| Optional — Grok | Recall / safety bulletin | Looks up maker recall pages for the current firearm or all active guns. Serials stay on this PC unless you choose Yes. Not conclusive — open the maker link and match serials yourself. |
| Optional — Grok | Ammo fill from box photo | Reads the box photo already in Images/Preview. Proposes manufacturer, caliber, grain, and bullet type. It will not guess a round count that is not on the photo. You choose whether to write it to the form. |