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> Any feedback is welcome. Top on my todo list is improving performance (reduce interaction lag). Maybe don't have it render anything until a valid date post 1800 has been parsed in all fields? I started typing a date and it rendered the year 0190.
Sometimes I think this concept is depressing because it increases the pressure to "do something" with your life. When you are presented with the finiteness of your life you feel pressure to fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile". When someone is enjoying a hobby they will lose track of time yet that hobby may be frivolous in the eyes of someone else. Do they want something like this to trac…
This is a visualization of how I have been feeling for the last couple of years. I'm in my mid 30s and lately have been going through what I'm sure is a mid life crisis. Seeing all these empty cells really underscores the point. - Aware of my limited time - Aware of my limited health (despite exercising, eating healthy, avoiding alcohol and drugs, sleeping well, etc... I don't feel like I did in my 20s) - Difficulty…
Eat some yummy unhealthy foods. Have a beer. Life is too short.
It's all a continuum full of overlapping parts of myself, but I wasn't really recognizable as my current self before about 22ish. I don't find it terribly helpful to feel time-pressured about what that previous person spent those weeks on.
Think of it as a kind of persona bankruptcy.
Life is short, and my subconscious already spends enough time worrying about water under the bridge.
Another approach using spreadsheets: https://aaronbell.substack.com/p/visualize-your-life-the-eas...
Damn, "I got married" and one mouse scroll later, "Officially divorced". And it wasn't even to the same woman, he got married and divorced twice within 1 desktop browser viewport's worth of weeks.
It was amazing how challenging it was to do one unique thing a week. It didn't even need to be anything big, just "what will I remember about this week".
I think as a New Years Resolution, I may try it again this year.
This widget simply highlights how many weeks of the year have been passed. Made it few weeks ago when a similar calendar was shared.
Here is the code you should be able to copy paste. Includes screenshot as well. https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e54497e5e10f897d22f5de9e...
One suggestion.... Make it faster to skip back and set the start date, or allow manual entry. I'm not even that old but it's a lot of months to click backwards on Android.