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24 alternatives to Playbooks for Life

Learn essential skills that were not taught in school

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Playbooks for Life launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Playbook▲117

   Mobile Video Micro-Learning for digital skills

   2018 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Nawvel▲375

   Discover resource collections & build your lifebook

   2022 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   UI Playbook▲346

   The documented collection of UI components

   2020 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Learner's Playbook▲14

   A playbook on how to structure your learning process.

   2018 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Growth Playbook▲302

   15 growth strategies from Dropbox, Stitch Fix, & more

   2018 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Life Skills Learning▲5

   Learn beyond Textbooks

   2021 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   The Startup Playbook▲545

   How-to guide for building your startup from the ground up

   2018 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Playbook▲372

   Dropbox for creatives to see everything, find anything

   2021 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Playbook▲397

   Beautiful documentation your customers will love

   2025 · playbookdocs.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Bookcademy▲251

    Book summaries as fun, useful & practical courses

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    LEON Playbook Library▲60

    Well-being and performance playbooks for managers and HR

    2022 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Growth Strategy Playbook▲128

    The ultimate growth strategy resource for growth marketers

    2023 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    1-on-1 Meeting Playbooks▲95

    Ask your team relevant and engaging questions

    2018 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Notion Growth Playbook▲78

    Growth doesn’t just happen, be intentional with it

    2022 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Science of Practice▲119

    How to rewire your brain for performance, from Hardbound

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Wisebooks▲231

    Free database of books recommended by world-class people

    2018 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Learning Community Playbook▲99

    Expert strategies to supercharge your learning community

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    PlayBooks – Jupyter Notebooks style on-call investigation documents▲147

    Hello everyone, Dipesh and Siddarth here. We are building PlayBooks (https://github.com/DrDroidLab/playbooks), an open source tool to write executable notebooks for on-call investigations / remediations instead of Google Docs or Wikis. There’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-wOtIm1gk, and our docs are here: https://docs.drdroid.io/docs/playbooks We were in YC’s W23 batch working on a data lakehouse with support for dynamic log schemas. Eventually we realized it was a product in search of a market and decided to…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Make Time▲210

    A book on how to focus on what matters every day

    2018 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Consciously Crafting Your Career Path▲84

    Self reflection + career planning workbook

    2023 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Great Books Homeschool▲84

    A customizable K-12 curriculum based on great books

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Playbook▲93

    The app for growing your money and optimizing your taxes.

    2021 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Joon for Kids▲109

    Motivate your kids while teaching them important life skills

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    BooksInAction by Mentorist▲131

    Ultra actionable book summaries for you who don’t take notes

    2020 · its alternatives →

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