Almanack began as a field expeditioner's habit: recording useful resources encountered during long stretches of online exploration, annotating them with brief notes, and filing them by subject. What started as a personal reference log grew into a shared directory, open to any website owner who wished to add their own entry. The project takes its name from the traditional almanac — that annual compendium of tables, records, and useful facts that sailors and farmers once carried as their primary navigational aid. The comparison is deliberate: a good directory, like a good almanac, saves time by organising what is already known so that the reader can spend energy discovering what is not. The 22 sections of Almanack reflect the categories that emerged naturally from the entries themselves, adjusted over time to reflect where the web's activity is actually concentrated. Adult and dating services occupy one section; industrial manufacturers occupy another. The catalogue makes no hierarchy between them — each entry is logged on equal terms. Almanack does not accept payment for placement, and no entry is ranked above another for commercial reasons. What you see is what was submitted and approved. Submissions are reviewed before publication to confirm that the site is active, accessible, and describes itself honestly. The almanack is not a search engine and does not claim comprehensive coverage of any sector. It is, rather, a curated sample: a cross-section of the web taken at a particular moment, logged and filed for those who prefer to browse rather than search.