The number comes from Oliver Burkeman, and once you've seen it you can't unsee it. Four thousand weeks — time enough to figure out what matters, do the work, love the people, and pay some attention to the days as they pass.
Your Life Weekly draws all of them at once. One square per week, from birth to horizon. The filled ones are behind you. The empty ones are still yours.
The canvas, the log, the figures, the almanac — and the editions that arrive at the end of every year and every decade.
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."On the Shortness of Life
Colour-code the seasons of your life. School, careers, relationships, travel, health. See at a glance how your time has actually been spent, and where you're headed next.
Pin meaningful moments to the exact week they happened. A concert, a first date, a trip, a project shipped. Small marks on your grid that add up to a well-documented life.
Set milestones by date or by age, then watch them approach on your timeline as the weeks count down toward them.
A gentle nudge once a week to write down what happened and what mattered. Over time it builds a simple habit of paying attention to your own life as it goes by.
Weeks lived, weeks ahead, life percentage, days on earth, next milestone, next birthday. A clear set of numbers that puts everything in proportion.
Browse 200+ passages from Stoic thinkers, writers and philosophers, each with a short reading of what it is actually saying. Seneca, Thoreau, Mary Oliver, and more.
At the end of each year and each decade your life gets an edition of its own — chapters, memories, goals and reflections turned into cards worth sharing.
Tap any square, past or future. The #1 song, the biggest film, the price of gas, who was president. Your story against the backdrop of the world.
Six widgets for the Home and Lock Screen, fifty custom app icons, and high-resolution printable grid exports. One purchase, no subscriptions.
Your birthday is the only input the app needs, and it never leaves your device. No account, no tracking, no analytics on what you write. Publishing a grid to the web is opt-in, one grid at a time, and you choose what it shows.
In 2014, Tim Urban published a post on Wait But Why that redrew how people think about time. He made a grid with one box for every week of a ninety-year life and let the image do the work.
"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."
Tim Urban · Your Life in Weeks
Millions of people saw their entire existence fit inside a single rectangle. Urban calculated that 4,680 weeks would fill about one tablespoon of diamonds. That's the whole thing.
The Stoics got there first, without the graphic. Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus built whole philosophies around the finite nature of time. Their point was never to frighten anyone — it was to clarify what's worth doing with the time you have. Your Life Weekly grew out of the same impulse: the grid is here, but so are the tools to work with it.
The blog post that started it. One grid, 4,680 boxes, and a way of seeing time that stays with you.
Read the post →Days are too small to hold meaning. Years are too coarse to feel real. A week sits in between — the natural rhythm of work, rest, projects and Sundays. Roughly 4,000 of them fit in an average human life.
There's a reason summers seemed longer when you were nine. At ten years old, one year is a tenth of your life. At forty, it's a fortieth. Each year takes up less of the whole. Seeing your life as a grid restores the proportions.
We measure days in tasks and years in milestones, but we rarely zoom out far enough to see the whole picture. A life in weeks fixes that. It makes time tangible in a way calendars never do.
Your Life Weekly is free to use on iPhone and iPad. Premium unlocks widgets, fifty custom app icons and printable grid exports. One purchase, no subscriptions.
Ten well-known lives, drawn the same way yours would be. Every card below plots that person's real weeks — filled to the day you're reading this.
"Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see."Written on campaign, c. 170 AD
The only input the app needs. Your entire grid, every filled square and every milestone, derives from this one date — and it never leaves your device.
Add chapters, pin memories, set goals, write weekly reflections. Watch the grid fill in your story as you colour-code the seasons of your life.
Tap any square, past or future. See a snapshot of that week: the #1 song, the biggest film, the price of gas. Your story against the backdrop of the world.
Each year and each decade gets a personalised edition. Your chapters, memories, goals and reflections, captured in cards worth sharing.
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Your entire life, one square per week. A museum-quality 20×30″ giclée print on 175 gsm acid-free enhanced matte paper with archival pigment inks. Built to last decades — which is rather the point.
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