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Re: Death Clock

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As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably sto…

I almost gave up using it due to the year picker. If I can see the year I should be able to click it, but on this one you actually have to scroll down until it is no longer faded at all.

I’ve fixed it now

Re: Death Clock

#202
On Android there's no easy way to input the date. I get a date picker that I can only increment the month. I can't change anything else :-(

Re: Death Clock

#203

Well this kinda popped off more that I expected it to! A bit of background about this and how it was built: I started back to work this week after some time off over Christmas. This year the company I worked for decided to hold a creative week to help get us back into work. I ended up being just 3 days as we presented them all to each other on Friday. I know this is definitely still rough around the edges, it was jus…

One small improvement might be to make it so that it creates a url which the user can go back to without entering the data again. That way they can bookmark it / share if they want.

I’ve made this improvement now

Re: Death Clock

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post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real trick: expect to die in a minute . No joke. The Buddhist perspective gets into that. The idea of dying tomorrow sets you up to worry about making the most of the future of the rest of the day, and you're still not really present. When we consider that these few breaths or bites or moments might be our last, we can release all the clinging and aversion because it's too late to do anything but be profoundly aw…

Huh. If this is my last minute, I'm definitely not doing the dishes.

Okay, a minute might be too long. If you are thinking that you have some time to plan and decide what to do with it, you're not doing the exercise. It has to be such that you accept that there's nothing you can do to control what's happening and you give up your grasping for control. No point in using up your moments trying to decide what to do next.

Whatever you are doing right now, this could be it, and that's that. The magic is the chance to actually be present for an instant rather than just be lost in your anxieties and then be dead.

When you practice experiencing this as your last moments, you might just look out the window at the clouds and think about your most meaningful memories, but you also might as well keep washing the dishes and finally be really present with it.

If washing the dishes is your last moments, it can feel like a profound and meaningful experience of dish-washing. You can realize that you've been stuck in a judgmental low-level aversion to dish-washing and suddenly all the tension disappears, and you realize both the awesomeness and the mundaneness of it all at once. Water, sensations, plates are beautiful, you're living this life in some place, and it is what it is, and really it's amazing, we just constantly overlook it.

When you then do not actually die, you have the chance to prioritize being as grateful and loving as you possibly can in every moment going forward, at least whenever you can bring that presence back to mind. Whether that's when cleaning or being with others.

You might decide that there are activities you'd like to never ever do again.

But in the end, there's no right or wrong activities or context, there's only being present or not. We can be present even while the activity is making plans.

Re: Death Clock

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

One small improvement might be to make it so that it creates a url which the user can go back to without entering the data again. That way they can bookmark it / share if they want.

I’ve made this improvement now

Nice one, bookmarked! :)
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