The home for codified wisdom
Living books of hard-won rules.
Write down what you know — the rules, the reasoning behind them, and the exceptions — as a book that stays alive edition after edition. For your craft, your team, or the principles you live by.
409 rules across 19 living booksWritten by people, grounded in sourcesFree to start
A book can be…
The same tool for a research reference and a book of house rules.
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A professional handbook
Codify how a team designs, ships, and reviews — so standards outlive any one person.
e.g. “How Our Team Actually Works”
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A collection of personal principles
The rules you actually try to live by, written down and revised as you learn.
e.g. “Rules I Try to Live By”
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A trusted technical reference
Field-tested engineering guidance with reasoning, examples, and real sources.
e.g. “Electrical Safety, Plainly”
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A collaborative team standard
Co-authored rules with reviews, comments, and a clear edition history.
e.g. “A private workspace handbook”
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A playful book shared among friends
Rulebound supports humour too — clearly labelled, never pretending to be law.
e.g. “A Gentleman's Questionable Dating Playbook”
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A first-principles reference
Break a discipline down to the rules everything else is derived from.
e.g. “First Principles of Physics”
Written by people
On a web filling with generated text, provenance is the point.
Named authors
Every book is signed. You always know whose judgement you're reading — and can follow it.
Reasoning & sources
Rules carry the why, the exceptions, and the references — claims you can trace, not just assertions.
Editions on the record
Books revise in public. Every change lands in an append-only edition history you can audit.
Make your own
From a rough list of principles to a living edition.
Rulebound gives your thinking a structure: chapters, rules, reasoning, and sources — then publishes it as a book people can read, save, and remix.
Create a Rule Book1
Start from a template
Pick a shape — technical principles, a team handbook, a personal manifesto — and get sensible chapters.
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Write rules with reasoning
Each rule gets a statement, the why behind it, how it works in practice, and its exceptions.
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Cite your sources
Ground rules in books, papers, and notes so readers can trace the thinking.
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Publish an edition
Ship it. Every revision becomes a new edition in an append-only history.
Build the handbook for anything.
Start a private rule book for yourself, or publish one for the world. Your first edition is minutes away.