Memento Mori
You have less time than you think.
Memento turns your remaining time into something you can see — so your days line up with the people, goals and experiences that actually matter.
The most valuable thing you own is disappearing.
Money can be lost and earned again. Time only moves one way. Every day spends something you cannot get back, and most of it goes without being noticed — a week here, a year there, whole decades to habits you never actually chose.
Memento does not ask what you accomplished today. It asks a quieter question: was today worth one day of your life? Seeing the trade honestly is the entire point.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”
Your entire life. One screen.
Enter your date of birth and choose a horizon to look at — eighty years, by default. Memento draws every week of that life as a single square: the weeks behind you filled, the weeks ahead still open.
It is a small thing to look at and hard to forget. One square is one week. This is a picture for thinking with — not a prediction of anything.
Each square is one week. Each row is one year.
- Age
- 0
- Weeks lived
- ~0
- Weeks remaining
- ~0
An example life — 28 years old, viewed across 80 years. One square is one week. A picture for thinking with, not a prediction.
Where is your life going?
Sort your time into a few honest categories — work, health, relationships, growth, leisure, rest, and the hours that just vanish. Memento adds them up across the day, the week, the year.
Then it does one more thing: it translates the totals back into life. A hundred and twenty-six hours of scrolling this year is more than five full days. Not a scolding — just the number, so you can decide what to do with it.
Awareness, not judgement.
These aren’t just hours. They’re pieces of your life.
- 34%
- Work
- 18%
- Leisure
- 14%
- Relationships
- 11%
- Growth
- 10%
- Wasted Time
- 9%
- Health
- 4%
- Purpose
The hours your job or craft asks of you.
Rest, entertainment, hobbies, doing nothing on purpose.
Time given fully to the people in your life.
Learning, building skill, becoming more capable.
Hours that left nothing behind — by your own reckoning.
Movement, cooking, care for the body you live in.
Work toward something larger than the day itself.
126 hours scrolling this year is more than five full days of your life. Not a scolding — just the number, so you can decide what to do with it.
Live by what matters.
Name the handful of things you say matter most — family, health, freedom, mastery, faith, contribution. Set goals worth a life: a business built, a language learned, your parents taken to Italy while there is still time.
Memento holds your stated values next to your actual weeks and asks, without judgement: does this allocation reflect what matters to you?
- Family8%
- Health5%
- Growth7%
- Freedom9%
- Friendship4%
Does this reflect what matters?
And goals worth a life
Before I die
- Build something that outlasts me
- See Japan on foot
- Take my parents to Italy
This year
- Reach real physical strength
- Read twenty-four books
- Hold a conversation in Spanish
This chapter
- Be there for the mornings
- Ship the first version
- Call home weekly
Every Evening
Was today worth a day of your life?
what you gave your time to · what mattered · what you would do differently · what you are glad you lived
- Mortality
- Awareness
- Perspective
- Intentional living
- Appreciation
Remember that you will die — so that you can truly live.
For the Stoics — Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus — keeping death in view was not morbid. It was clarifying. It burns off what does not matter and returns you, sharply, to the life you still have.
That is the whole intent of this product. Not fear. Focus. A deeper appreciation for the time that remains, and the will to spend it deliberately.
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what is left and live it properly.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
Make the rest count.
Begin with your date of birth. Two minutes to see your life on one screen.