Life Calendar
Visualize your life in weeks. 4,680 dots. One per week. See how many you've lived and how many remain.
What is a life calendar? A life calendar is a visual grid of approximately 4,680 dots representing every week in a 90-year life. Filled dots show weeks you've already lived; empty dots show weeks remaining. It's a modern memento mori tool that makes abstract time concrete and finite.
Calculate Your Weeks
Your birthday to calculate weeks lived
The Math Behind Your Life
A human life, measured in weeks, is both breathtakingly finite and surprisingly manageable to visualize:
- 90 years (a long human life)
- 52 weeks per year
- = 4,680 weeks total
That's it. Your entire life—every childhood memory, every career achievement, every relationship—fits in a grid of less than 5,000 dots. When you see it laid out with a portion already filled in, the effect is profound.
This concept was popularized by Tim Urban's viral Wait But Why article, which showed that "it kind of feels like our lives are made up of a countless number of weeks. But there they are—fully countable—staring you in the face."
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How It Works
Enter your birthday
We calculate your weeks lived and remaining
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Pick from six premium designs
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Auto-updates every morning via iOS
Learn More
What is a Life Calendar? The Ultimate Guide
Deep dive into the history, psychology, and practice of life calendars
Memento Mori: The Philosophy Behind Life Calendars
How Stoic mortality meditation inspired this modern tool
4000 Weeks: How Many Weeks Do You Have Left?
The math and meaning behind counting life in weeks
Life Calendar FAQ
Common questions about life calendars and WeeklyDots
A life calendar is a visual grid showing approximately 4,680 dots, where each dot represents one week of a 90-year human life. Filled dots show weeks you've already lived; empty dots show weeks remaining. It's a memento mori tool for gaining perspective on how you spend your time.
A 90-year life contains 4,680 weeks (90 years × 52 weeks per year). When displayed as a grid, your entire life fits in a surprisingly small space, making it easier to visualize and appreciate the finite nature of time.
Enter your birthday, choose a theme, and WeeklyDots generates a personalized wallpaper showing your weeks lived as filled dots. Set up a simple iOS Shortcut, and your wallpaper updates automatically every morning—no app required.
Yes, WeeklyDots is completely free. Create your life calendar, choose from all six premium themes, and set up daily auto-updates at no cost. Optional donations help support the project.
Years feel abstract and infinite. Weeks feel tangible and countable. When you see your life as ~4,680 dots instead of 90 years, the finitude becomes real in a way that motivates intentional living rather than endless postponement.
The modern life calendar was popularized by Tim Urban's 2014 Wait But Why article 'Your Life in Weeks,' which went viral by visualizing a human lifespan as a countable grid of weeks. The concept draws on the ancient Stoic practice of memento mori.