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Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Post by foobiekr »

tmarice wrote: post #20

Love the concept, not so much the execution. The "Login after customizing everything" and "Pay to remove the watermark which renders the calendar useless" are borderline dark patterns. But on the positive, it gave me an idea to make my own version of this calendar, sans the money grab.

I’ve been meaning to work on one that I can incrementally add to over time both historically and present day.

I would really like to have one That has labels external to the life calendar itself poking into it like a giant cactus. I don’t want to create want to go, I figure it’ll take me a full year to actually populate the thing with the events that I either recapture by residing old photos, journal entries or otherwise talking to my wife.

What can I say, I’m old and remembering important events isn’t going to happen all at once.

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Post by escapedmoose »

OJFord wrote: post #10
stbtrax wrote: post #2

The thought of not having anything significant to remember a week by, and then thinking about how finite those are seems to depress me more than inspire.

I feel the same way, and also about those apps people use to record a short clip or take a photograph every day. But I gather they are relatively popular, so what do I know!

I've been using one of those "short clip everyday" apps for the last 6 years. The only noticeable effect it's had on my life is that I have mundane/everyday/real-life footage of people/pets who have passed away unexpectedly. So when family members are looking for a way to remember them, they tend to ask me if I can dig up any of my "one seconds." It's a bittersweet job, but I'm glad I'm able to provide some comfort that way.

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Post by gexla »

yessirwhatever wrote: post #17

I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

Great comment.

Seems tech people love them some memorizing. Live a memorable moment, load it into an Anki deck, then review memorable moments for the remainder of your days. Do one last review right before you check out.

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Post by bradydjohnson »

yessirwhatever wrote: post #17

I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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Post by bloqs »

Might be useful for some readers. I originally saw the life calendar concept in Tim Urbans excellent TED talk about procrastination a few years back. I couldnt find one on his site so I simply used the ASCII square character on Word and printed out a box for every week from birth until I am 85.

I decided I wanted the weeks bigger so I deleted the already passed weeks, and changed the end date to proposed retirement at 65. It's not fun. I've lost the file but easy enough

The talk https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU

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Post by andretti1977 »

Nice idea, but to be honest i had many issues with that:

1) need to register to get the pdf...i did it but i consider it really too much for such service so i used a throwaway email account

2) i couldn't download it using chrome (is it me only? i can download files from everywhere)

3) on Safari i downloaded the pdf but it was blank except for the quote written on the footer of the page

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Post by auslegung »

psychoslave wrote: post #31
auslegung wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw a tree yesterday. It was beautiful. The sun was close to setting, the sky was completely clear. The color of the sky went from a beautiful clear blue down to a very pale almost green color at the horizon, backdropping the tree. I may remember this the rest of my life.

Also remember none of those things would have been possible without you observing it. https://www.nsta.org/q-if-tree-falls-forest-and-theres-no-on...

That’s not true. That’s a very human-centric way to view things. If no humans exist things would still happen. If there was no life anywhere things would still happen.

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Post by psychoslave »

auslegung wrote: post #77
psychoslave wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also remember none of those things would have been possible without you observing it. https://www.nsta.org/q-if-tree-falls-forest-and-theres-no-on...

That’s not true. That’s a very human-centric way to view things. If no humans exist things would still happen. If there was no life anywhere things would still happen.

I think this response comes from an inter-misunderstanding. In this context, "none of these things" referred to "none of this perceptions". Things like "color" and "beauty" only exists through the prism of entities which somehow feel them.

Only through solipsism one might think that nothing would exist without the current conscientiousness stream.

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