About

You are what you take in.

Fig Almanac is a culture journal — a place to keep a record of what you read, watch, and listen to, the performances you see, and the places you go. Not ratings for an algorithm, not content for a feed: a personal almanac, kept the way people used to keep commonplace books.

Each entry is a fig— a book finished, a film watched, a concert attended, a city visited. Add figs over the years and they accumulate into something bigger than a list: a record of a mind and where it’s been. The charts and maps grow on their own.

The name is the whole idea, twice over. A fig is a fruit everyone has heard of and few have actually tasted — which is exactly how keeping lists like these feels, where the heard-of forever outnumbers the tried. And an almanac, unlike a journal, faces both directions: it records the seasons behind you and points at the ones ahead. So do these shelves — everything you’ve taken in, and the wishlists of everything you still mean to.

Everything you add is private by default. When you’re ready, you can publish your almanac — all of it, a single category, or one fig at a time — at your own address, figalmanac.com/you. Read more in our privacy notes.

Fig Almanac is currently in an invite-only beta. It began as the personal culture journal of Kaleb Nygaard — a decade of books, movies, music, and travels that now live here — and is growing into a home for anyone who keeps count of what they love. If you’d like an invite, say hello.