# Small Guides

> Radically simple, authored city guides. Small, edited lists of places that age well, curated by André. Not comprehensive, not crowdsourced, not generated — made for locals as much as for tasteful people passing through.

## How to read a guide
Each place is one entry: `Name — Area Symbol Year` plus one authored line.
Symbols form a quiet hierarchy of attention, judgment, and gravity:
- ◌ = marked, not yet judged (researched or strongly recommended; not yet personally visited). Rare — the edge of the guide, never a wishlist.
- ○ = selected (visited and judged).
- ◎ = selected, with deeper gravity (not a favourite badge).

Bring Home is not a category; it appears as a note inside an entry when an object carries meaning forward. Guides are visually monolingual: public names are English/romanized, with each city's local name shown for orientation (e.g. Kyoto · 京都 · kyoh-toh).

## Pages
- [Small Guides](https://smallguide.to/) — the index of cities
- [André](https://smallguide.to/andre/) — the curator
- [A Small Guide to Kyoto](https://smallguide.to/kyoto/) — the first guide
- [A Small Guide to Tokyo](https://smallguide.to/tokyo/)
- [A Small Guide to Lisbon](https://smallguide.to/lisbon/)
- [A Small Guide to Copenhagen](https://smallguide.to/copenhagen/)
- [A Small Guide to Venice](https://smallguide.to/venice/)
- [A Small Guide to Seville](https://smallguide.to/seville/)

Each city also has a print version at /<city>/print/ and a machine-readable guide at /<city>/guide.json.

## Cities
- Kyoto (京都 · kyoh-toh), Tokyo (東京 · toh-kyoh) — live
- Lisbon (Lisboa), Copenhagen (København), Venice (Venezia), Seville (Sevilla) — live, still being judged