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I did something similar (also inspired by Buster Benson): https://days.sonnet.io Aaand, here's another one I like: https://days.rory.codes
Yeah, I did one as well (inspired by rory.codes). Was a fun little project but looking at it now, I can see a bunch of improvements I can make.
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Not so fun fact: Corporate Germany also uses week numbers and some paper pushers and some project managers have adapted, most nerds (incl. me) will never come to terms with it and have to look it up once a month. Also what do you mean by "all calendars" - the last paper one I owned I bought at an art fair in 2018ish ;)
If you work at a 'real' paper pusher office they have a three month calendars with week numbers hanging at every office wall, gifted from the wholesale and office center! (You can activate week numbers in Office Outlook as well. Or go to ukenummer.no for simple display)
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Yeah, I did one as well (inspired by rory.codes). Was a fun little project but looking at it now, I can see a bunch of improvements I can make.
Care to share? I like finding new ones (in fact, I was chatting with Rory at the time both of us were working on a site like that :) )
Definitely needs some web-tweaking because initial load seems to confuse/upset Safari somehow. https://git.rjp.is/rjp/daysgo does all the hard work.
I once did the math to figure out, how much space would be required to track my entire life. I thought, I would want to know a couple of things: my location and my activity for every second of my life. Since I generally live relative to the surface of the Earth, my location could be stored in a GPS coord. And since the number of activities I engage in are not that big, I could probably store them as indexes into a ma…
So what's the number?
So much of our life is consumed by work. Seeing your lifespan laid bare like this, there's a perverse instinct to optimize what remains. Have to be more productive, more efficient. But it's a bit like seeing you're bleeding out and deciding to optimize your blood donation schedule, isn't it?
What strikes me is the empty spaces where we don't recognize what we did, or didn't do anything memorable. I made an app to try to address this about a decade ago which I called Bucket52, the idea being that every week you put one memorable thing in it. Trying to do this just for a year was surprisingly difficult.
For me I just want to remember what's gone on in my life better, even if it's sometimes mundane. I've tried short-form daily journaling, but I've only made it around 3 months before I start skipping days and stop doing it altogether. When it comes to doing something new/memorable, I'd be fine with aspiring for just one thing per month (with the assumption that sometimes/often I'd end up with more than that). I think…
Weeks is the most terrifying unit of time to think in. Short enough so you have a good sense of how long it feels but long enough to add up quickly.
Indeed. A week is basically 2% of a year, which is quite a chunk. You basically get 50 ticks a year, and that ticks quite fast.
In case you are wondering how an year goes by that fast, this is how.
I built it in 2 days so it's very MVP-ish but would love to get feedback!
This is awesome. It actually inspired me to build an app so that I—and anyone else—could make my own. https://lifeweeks.app/ I built it in 2 days so it's very MVP-ish but would love to get feedback!