Eighty years, week by week. This wallpaper will show you every one of them.
ScrollSeven days. It fills in either way — well spent or wasted.
One row. 52 weeks, side by side.
4,160 weeks. Eighty rows, all of them at once. When were you born?
Stays in your browser — never sent anywhere.
That's the trick of the grid. "About eighty years" is easy to nod at and forget — but seeing all of it at once is harder to walk away from. Every childhood summer that felt endless: a small block near the top, already filled in.
Rough numbers for an 80-year life from age 30 — and they become yours.
“The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short.”Oliver Burkeman · Four Thousand Weeks
He calls that a relief, not a threat: once you see that time is finite, what matters becomes obvious too. The grid isn't counting you down — it's asking what this week is for.
The same grid, drawn on your desktop wallpaper — quietly keeping count while you work.
You could leave life right now.Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
Memento mori — "remember that you must die" — has been a tool for living well for two thousand years, whispered to Roman generals at their moment of triumph and written nightly in the private journal of an emperor. Not to be morbid: nothing sorts out your priorities faster.
Your time is the scarce thing here, not your money. If the wallpaper earns a spot on your desktop, you can leave a donation — entirely optional.
Windows may warn about an unknown publisher on first run — the app is new
and unsigned (a signature costs money; this app is free). Click "More info → Run anyway".
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It started as a personal tool, and a reminder like this shouldn't sit behind a paywall. If it ends up meaning something to you, there's a donate button — pay what you want, including nothing.
Windows 10 and Windows 11. Everything the app needs is already part of Windows — there are no extra downloads or frameworks.
No. A standard Windows scheduled task renders your wallpaper every Monday at 08:00 and when you log in. It takes about a second, then nothing is running.
It's stored in a small settings file on your own PC and used only to draw the grid. It is never sent anywhere. The birthdate you enter on this page stays in your browser, too.
The weekly task also checks for a new version. If there is one, it's downloaded, verified and installed silently. Your settings are never touched.
Yes — open "Memento Mori Settings" from the Start menu. You can switch between weeks and months, change the shape and size of the squares, pick dark or light, and adjust every color, with a live preview.
Because it works the other way around: seeing the empty squares makes the current one matter. Memento mori is an old Stoic practice — remember death, and you remember to live.
Enter your date of birth and watch the weeks you’ve lived fill in. It stays in your browser — never sent anywhere.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”Seneca
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