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24 alternatives to I just hit my 500th TIL

:memo: Today I Learned. Contribute to jbranchaud/til development by creating an account on GitHub.

I just hit my 500th TIL" is a personal project launched in 2017 that documents things the creator has learned. Available on GitHub, it serves as a learning log or knowledge repository for anyone interested in how one… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I just hit my 500th TIL launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    :memo: Today I Learned. Contribute to jbranchaud/til development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Life Note▲467

    I'm excited to share Life Note with you. I'm the maker and have spent the last seven months working on it. Inspired by Tim Urban's Life Calendar idea, I wanted to create something to help people make better life decisions at pivotal moments. After a few pivots, our users' favorite feature turned out to be journaling with AI Mentors, leading to the creation of "1,000 Great Minds." I've experimented extensively with prompt engineering to make AI Mentors' responses personal and valuable through techniques like chain prompting, conditional prompting, and personalized prompting. I believe it's…

    2024 · mylifenote.ai · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on this tool that lets you build a personal knowledge graph from articles, blog posts, podcasts, YouTube videos, and other content you find interesting online. You can safely forget everything and trust that Recall will resurface it when something new that is related comes up. Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback on how it could be improved! The original version of Recall was posted last year nov on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33425947 Since then I have pivoted to a browser extension.

    2023 · recall.wiki · its alternatives →

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    1000 days of code in a glance

    2023 · peerlist.io · its alternatives →

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    notes on things. Contribute to yoshuawuyts/knowledge development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! I made a web application for my friend and I to use as part of a New Year’s resolution and decided to open it up to the public. It’s pretty simple but I’ve really enjoyed building it and using it so far. I’ve written ~10,000 words, which is a lot more than I used to write. Enjoy and be nice!

    2022 · fivehundredwordsaday.com · its alternatives →

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    TIL is an open-source project by Hashrocket that exists to catalogue the sharing & accumulation of knowledge as it happens day-to-day.

    2020 · til.hashrocket.com · its alternatives →

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    My personal knowledge base is hosted on GitHub at https://raphaelsty.github.io/knowledge/. It scans the documents I like every day using GitHub Action, Zotero, HackerNews upvote and Github Likes. It's not yet optimized for smartphones. It cost me $5 to host it for a year.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn something new in every tab

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate your daily coding goal

    2020 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →

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    Track habits with calendar heat maps and a habit journal

    2023 · lifeofdiscipline.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I recently open-sourced a project that I came up with in the late 2022 and have been working on and off since. It's taken around a year or so of active development in total. My problem with habit-trackers is that they're all the same. All of them basically allow to track only one thing - X times per 1 day. That's very rigid and goes against my instinct to ease into new things. I wanted something that's flexible, self-sustainable, and wouldn't require a lot of maintenance. After a bit of tinkering I came up with something novel - adjustable habit frequencies. And made all the custom…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote an nvim plugin that does fuzzy time parsing on plain english dates to help you create + organise periodic notes. I use it daily at work and home. Hope it's helpful to others. :) note: not using NLP, LLMs or 'true' fuzzy parsing as per academic literature; just normal recursive descent parsing

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn learning into memory with daily recall

    Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Random pieces of knowledge — with anecdotes and quotes - delight-im/Knowledge

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everybody, I personally found the best way to motivate yourself to program everyday is by creating a practice repo and by uploading anything you code up that day into this repo. This is a great way to stay consistent seeing the bright green light up every time you push your code. It's very addicting and satisfying, and has definitely made me a better programmer over the past few months.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Two years ago, I started building this site that allows people to document their learning and progress in real time. The idea is: as you learn new things, you document your progress piece by piece, creating a collection of failures, breakthroughs, and knowledge. Along the way, your friends can cheer you on, and the community can give you tips and feedback. Over time, we'll create a public collection on how different problems were solved. With each progress, the site prompts you to reflect on questions like, "If you could go back in time, what do you wish you had known?" This was my first web…

    2024 · opus.cafe · its alternatives →

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    Everyday Matters

    2024 · timeline-17.web.app · its alternatives →

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    The URL is your timer—no signup, just start counting

    Jan 2026 · til.re · its alternatives →

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    reMind▲14

    A custom daily podcast for retaining your favorite facts.

    2025 · remind-notes.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Memoque▲22

    Memoque: Learn words fast - 10-min daily vocab boost!

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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