Life in weeks
🗓️ Life happens one week at a time; pushing my life-tracking obsession a bit further; do more of what makes you feel alive
I've been fascinated (and a little bit scared) by this visualization of “Your life in weeks”:
Each little square represents one week. I know: It doesn't look like a lot of weeks.
Where did the time go?
I wonder: which of those little red squares represent weeks that I can still remember? Which of them brought a spark of adventure, a meaningful encounter, or a moment of particular difficulty?
When did I feel truly alive?
To answer these questions… I really want to annotate the Life in weeks chart ✏️ . The original tool doesn’t have this feature, so I got around to making my own :).
Presenting 🥁 … Life in weeks , the pnote version:
I spent half a day scrolling through my photo stream and entering dates of interesting events. If you want, now you can give it a try too 💫.
How does it work?
All data is stored locally in your own browser/computer/phone. You can easily export it in a plaintext CSV file to back it up, or to move it between devices.
Behind the scenes, the website uses the localStorage API to save the state. This way the website stores and remembers your data without the need to register or set up an account.
It’s already a third small project I built using localStorage (after the 🎭 Avignon theater festival program and the 👾 Space invader map) and I really like the simplicity.
Conclusion
Life happens one week at a time. With this tool I can map the life events that I remember until now… and then remind myself to perhaps try to have more of them in the future :).
Try it out and share with friends at pnote.eu/projects/life-in-weeks/ 💫 !
In other news
📷 Generative AI is coming to change the photo editing landscape. Pixel 9 comes with an integrated AI editor (The Verge: No one’s ready for this). On the opposite end of the adoption spectrum, the authors of Procreate published a pledge: AI is not our future
🎞️ “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis” - a movie trailer for the new Coppola movie featured review quotes made up by generative AI. Ben Evans reminds us: CHATGPT! IS! NOT! A! SEARCH! ENGINE!
📖 Just finished Kafka on the shore. What a beautiful beautiful book. No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
Postcard from Paris
Seeing her makes me smile every time :).
Have a great week 💫,
– Przemek
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."
I can see why you were on this train of though after finishing Kafka on the Shore.
I've always been fascinated by the ‘Life in weeks’ performance. It's a brilliant idea to add a simple description to that.
I've been thinking for a while about a way to create a centralised representation of important events and periods in life (as lifelog). I've been leaning more towards a ‘timeline’ form, but a more simplistic view like this is probably best.
Very inspiring, thanks again :-)