Wastime
Zoom out
and see your life at scale
Your life in weeks, the year you're in by days, and your milestones sitting on both.
Wastime's Life Calendar turns time from a vague feeling into something you can actually look at. You pick a life expectancy baseline, and your life shows up as a grid of weeks. From there you can zoom all the way down to a single year by days, and put the moments that shaped you exactly where they fell.
- See your whole life as one finite grid of weeks
- Zoom into a single year, day by day, with your milestones on it
- Choose the life expectancy baseline the grid is built on
- Works offline, and your data stays on the device
“You can look at your whole life on one screen and still go make dinner afterwards.”
The moment you zoom out
Some years feel endless while you're living them, and then suddenly they're gone. The Life Calendar is for the moment you want to step back and look at what the whole thing has been made of so far.
- What has my life actually been made of so far?
- What periods shaped me (for better or worse)?
- If I keep living at the same pace, what will I be glad I protected and what will I wish I changed?
There is an old phrase for this kind of looking, memento mori, and it has picked up a heavier reputation than it really deserves. What survives of it here is the plain part, that the weeks are countable and worth counting.
Time stays vague until you can actually see it. A fixed grid makes the trade-offs concrete and keeps your attention here, in this week, rather than somewhere in general.
Average 90-year life: ~4,680 weeks
One year view: 365/366 days
Current week: always marked
Life in Weeks and Life in Days
Weeks show the shape of a whole life, and days bring back the one you happen to be living right now.
Life in Weeks
Your whole life as a grid where 1 cell = 1 week. The current week is highlighted, so “later” quietly turns into “this week”.
- How many weeks you have already lived (filled)
- How many are likely ahead (empty)
- The current week highlighted, so “someday” becomes “this week”
Life in Days
A close-up year view where 1 cell = 1 day, including leap years. The current day is highlighted so plans and memories stay grounded in today.
- A single year as a grid where 1 cell = 1 day (leap years included)
- The current day highlighted to anchor you in the present
- Milestones placed in year view, not only in whole-life view
Milestones are what make it your calendar
It becomes yours once your own chapters are on it, from a single day to a season that took years.
Milestone types
- Single days for the moments that turned something, like the day you moved
- Ranges for the seasons that took years, like the job that shaped how you work
Milestone fields
- Color for visual memory
- Priority to highlight what matters most on the grid
- Groups such as Family, Work, Travel
- A description for the context that's easy to lose later
When marks overlap
- When multiple milestones land on the same week or day, the grid shows the highest-priority one
- Single-day milestones have higher visual priority than ranges
- You can still browse the full list for the selected year/range, search by text, and filter by groups
Filters, personalization, and baseline
Life piles up, and the calendar has to stay readable anyway.
Filters and search
- Specific year or range of years
- Milestone groups
- Text search across title and description
- Past vs planned milestones
Make it readable
- Zoom in and out (grid size)
- Colors for lived vs future time
- Birthday highlights (all, every 5 years, every 10 years)
- Optional reflective texts (on or off)
Settings are saved, so the map keeps feeling like yours.
Life expectancy baseline
Build the grid from your birth date and a life expectancy baseline drawn from country stats, a manual value, or a quick questionnaire.
This is a perspective tool and never a medical one, and the assumption it runs on stays yours to set.
Fullscreen timers, if you want them
- Remaining life shown as a percentage
- Seconds view
- HH:MM:SS view
They run on the baseline you chose, and you can leave them switched off entirely.
Private by default
- Works offline by default
- Nothing leaves the device unless you publish a calendar
- Data and settings are saved locally
- JSON export and import for backups and moving devices
Publish on your terms
You can show the shape of it without handing over the details.
- Public
- Private
- Link-only
Before publishing, you choose which milestones go in, and you can publish anonymously.
How to start in 5 minutes
Perspective first, then back to the real life where those weeks are actually spent.
- 1Set your date of birth and a life expectancy baseline.
- 2Open Life in Weeks once to feel the scale.
- 3Add 3-5 milestones that truly shaped you (one-day or ranges).
- 4Switch to Life in Days for your current year.
- 5Save your view settings and leave the app.
Some things, sometimes
A quiet mirror you open when you want to see something, and close again once you have.
“I feel like years are disappearing”
Open Life in Weeks and let the grid do the talking. What usually lands first is how few weeks are actually left to spend on everything you still mean to do.
“I want to remember my life more clearly”
Add milestones as ranges, like the years spent at a job that shaped you. A handful of chapters you actually remember will do more here than an archive you never finish.
“I'm heading into a new season and want to plan it”
Add a future range, like a “6-week focus sprint,” and let the calendar hold that intent for you without turning it into a schedule you have to obey.
“I don't want one more thing hanging over me”
Keep it minimal and check in only when you feel like it — the calendar still works even if you open it once a month.
FAQ
Short answers to practical questions before you start.
See the whole of it once in a while
Start with the weeks grid, add the few milestones that actually shaped you, then go back to living the rest of them.
