Everyone should have a hobby. Picking one is the hard part.

Press it until something catches. It rolls through all 500 hobbies on the list, which is the quickest way to find one you would never search for.

None of them have a write-up behind them yet. If one lands and you know it properly, that is the one to write.

“I want a hobby.” → “What are my options?” → “Which one suits me?” → “How do I start?” → “How do I get good?”

Nothing answers all five. You get listicles for the first two, a forum argument for the third, and a forty minute video for the fourth.

It is one database. The tree and the search and the quiz and the guides all read from it so they cannot disagree with each other.

1. The hobby wiki. What it is. Where it came from. What it costs and what it takes. Every bit of jargon you would otherwise nod along to.
2. Official guides. The wiki says what it is; the guide gets you from nothing to your first real attempt, in order, without a shopping list up front.
3. The hobby tree. Categories branching down to hobbies, then to specialisations only enthusiasts have heard of.
4. Search that fits your life. Cost, indoors or out, alone or with people, kit needed, time you actually have. Cheap, indoors, quiet, no equipment, thirty minutes.
5. The quiz. A few honest questions, several strong matches. Not one soulmate hobby. You're allowed to try three and drop two.
6. Forums. Where you ask the daft beginner question and someone twenty years in answers it properly.
7. Hobby of the week. One hobby, once a week, by email. Occasionally something absurd. That's the point.
8. Kit that's worth it. What you need, what can wait, what's a trap.

Every hobby belongs to one of these. They are broad on purpose, because the detail lives further down the tree. See what sits in each one.

level 1 · category
Tech & building
└── level 2 · a hobby you can take up
    Computer building
    └── level 3 · specialisations
        Custom PC building
        └── Custom water cooling

Four levels, from a category anyone would recognise to something you would only find by following it down. Some hobbies go further. Most stop here.

A branch only exists where there's a real difference in skills, kit or knowledge. Otherwise you end up with a tree that has a leaf for every Tuesday.

• Moderate cost
• Indoor or out
• Alone or social
• Creative + technical
• Some kit
• An hour or two
• Highly accessible

Every hobby gets the same treatment. Facts up front, reference in the middle, and the part that actually gets you started at the end.

Affiliate links on kit recommendations first. Ads later, if the traffic ever justifies them. A shop only if there's real demand. Inventory, shipping and returns are a whole different job.

What commission never buys: a place on a list. I recommend things on whether they are any good for a beginner. Where a link earns me something, the page says so.

On being right: I research from books, established organisations and people who have done it for years. Anything technical or safety-related gets checked by someone who actually knows. Where something is contested, I say so instead of picking a side and sounding confident.

On the forums: the forums are where the community lives, not where the facts come from. Great threads stay great threads. They don't quietly become official pages.

• Done: the ten rules, the categories, and five hundred hobbies listed A to Z with their specialisations. Search works. Submissions are open to anyone.
• Next: a wiki page and a guide behind each entry, written by people in the hobby. Then the quiz, reading from the same records.
• After that: forums, the weekly email, kit recommendations. A shop only if anyone actually wants one.

No fake launch and no countdown timer. Every entry is written by somebody in the hobby, so it fills up slowly.