What the original does
Seven fields, one per weekday, rotating for a year: history Monday, literature Tuesday, and so on through philosophy, science, and the rest. Its genius is variety; its limit is the same thing. Each subject gets 52 scattered pages a year, which makes for marvelous dinner-party range and shallow roots. The books below keep the daily page and choose sides on that trade.
More breadth
Schott's Original Miscellany · Ben Schott (2002)
Not dated, but the same magpie spirit compressed: sock sizes, semaphore, and the order of precedence at an English dinner. The bathroom-shelf classic of gloriously useless knowledge.
The sequels themselves
The Intellectual Devotional spawned editions (American History, Modern Culture, Biographies) that are honest continuations: same format, new fields. If the original's rhythm worked, they simply work again.
More depth: one subject, one year
This is the other answer to the 52-scattered-pages problem, and, full disclosure, it's the one we build: give a single subject the entire year. That's the 365 Daily Reads series, ours and flagged as such. Philosophy walks 130+ thinkers chronologically (★4.5, 262 ratings); World History runs the human timeline in order (★4.6); Psychology covers the science of the mind (★4.6); Mythology tours 30+ pantheons; Forgotten Words rescues English one word at a time (★4.8). A year of connected pages builds the thing the rotating format can't: an actual arc.
The practice wing
The Daily Stoic · Ryan Holiday (2016)
The other direction entirely: not knowledge but practice, one Stoic exercise a day. The whole daily-practice shelf, Stoic, Taoist, Zen, is compared in our daily reader guide, and the secular-devotional angle has its own page.
Choosing
Want range? The original and Schott. Want a subject to actually stay with you? A single-subject year. Want to be changed rather than informed? The practice books. The nightstand has room for one of each, which is honestly the correct configuration.
Common questions
What should I read after The Intellectual Devotional?
Its own sequels if you want more rotating variety, or a single-subject daily reader (philosophy, history, psychology) if you'd rather give one field a full connected year. The two formats scratch different itches.
What's the difference between The Intellectual Devotional and 365 Days of Philosophy?
The Devotional rotates seven subjects, giving each about 52 scattered pages a year; 365 Days of Philosophy spends all 365 pages on one subject in chronological order, building a connected arc. Breadth versus depth, both one page a day.
Is there a daily devotional for general knowledge?
The Intellectual Devotional is the standard; Schott's Miscellany serves the same magpie appetite undated. For single subjects, dedicated 365-day readers now exist for philosophy, history, psychology, mythology, and language.
Do daily knowledge books actually work?
The format's strength is retention through spacing: one page daily beats a weekend binge for memory, and the habit mechanics (fixed slot, tiny dose) are why these books get finished when textbooks don't.