This is an excellent topic and this very same problem has been bothering me some time now. My youngest child is now five years so he requires still a lot of attension and in practice I have only about two effective hours in evenings.
1) Software development (multiple of projects and studying new skills)
2) Electronics
3) Reading books
4) Computer and tabletop games
5) Miniatures
6) Woodwork
7) Sport (jogging, walking and gym)
One of the biggest improvement was bying a e-book reader (KoboGlo HD) couple of years ago. I have been able to read books in gym and while walking, travelling and pretty much every moment I need to wait something. This has been fullfilling my need for reading books and also theory part of studying new tech skills.
Otherwise doing everything during daily two spare hours has been a stuggle. I just needed to prioritize and use those hours for software development and occasionally playing Star Citizen.
Although, I think my youngest is old enough to start spending time with my other hobbies. We have started to do electronics and playing tabletop RPG (Hero Kids) and other tabletop games. That has helped a lot.
So, my advice is to buy e-reader and not to try save time from sleeping hours.
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