Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to This American Life: Captain's Log
From a German U-boat log to Aziz Ansari
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. This American Life: Captain's Log launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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My great-grandfather Reuben P. Box was a US Forest Ranger in Northern California, and I've got his daily work diary from 1927-1945, through the depression, WWII, Conservation Corps, and lots of forest fires. I've scanned the entire thing, had Claude help with transcription, indexing, and web site building, and put the whole thing here: https://forestrydiary.com/ This is one of those projects I've sat on for years, but with Claude and Mistral helping with the handwriting recognition, and even helping me write a custom scanning app that would auto scan each page and put it into…
Feb 2026 · forestrydiary.com · its alternatives →
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Littlelogs▲145A social journal of progress on your projects
2015 · littlelogs.co · its alternatives →
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Skipper▲65Marine Logbook for Sailing and Boating (iOS app)
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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William Finnegan's memoir on surfing
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Tripcast▲162A living travel journal for your friends back home.
2014 · tripcast.co · its alternatives →
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A melange of listener-requested etymologies
2015 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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Easily and quickly record the present and review the past
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Store all your memories from vacations and trips
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Haunted houses and a story from David Sedaris
2015 · thisamericanlife.org · its alternatives →
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How long can you last on the Log? Try not to rage!
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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For more background and technical details, I wrote this up as well: https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Entrepreneurship and electric kites in colonial times
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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The brain can betray you or benefit you. Act I w/ the NYT
2016 · its alternatives →
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Stories Anyway, Any Way
2015 · tellitanyway.com · its alternatives →
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Caps-log is a compact TUI (Text-based User Interface) journaling application crafted in C++ and leveraging the FTXUI library for its terminal interface. It allows users to save daily log entries as simple markdown files, making it an appealing tool for those who prefer working within a terminal environment. The interface is designed with a calendar feature that stands out by marking the days associated with a log entry. Furthermore, it can accentuate days based on specific 'tags' or 'sections' identified in the logs, which are either markdown list items starting with '*' or level one…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pulling off a career change into the board game industry
2016 · happymittengames.com · its alternatives →
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This episode honors the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincol…
2015 · its alternatives →
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