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sprainedankles 8 hours ago [-]
Very nice! I'd recommend that the landing page either shows an example right away (the Carl Sagan one is great) or make it more obvious to take a look at one first - took me a minute to figure out what this was for, but the example made it click immediately.
chuckleplant 8 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback! Didn't you get a highlight and text banner telling you to either enter a date or select an example? Or do you mean even then it should be more obvious?
Was it that the splash screen quote took too long too?
lynndotpy 14 hours ago [-]
I like the use of the Weber-Fechner law, that's a lens I use to think of age as well :) The idea is that experienced time is proportional to log time, i.e. it's why time seems to move faster as we age. You could even measure your age in powers of two, like we do octaves.
staticshock 13 hours ago [-]
Are you saying that a better way to measure perceived time is something like "1 year, 2 more years, 4 more years, 8 more years," starting from birth, and maybe call each of those increments a "log year"? I like it.
I guess the "natural" base to use to get the "right" number of increments is a pointless exercise, since it ultimately bottoms out in the question of "why is a regular year as long as it is?", but if we assume a base of 2, I'm currently in my 6th log year, and hope to die comfortably into my 7th. Actuarial odds are >80% in my favor.
lynndotpy 13 hours ago [-]
Yes! But I do agree, six or seven units are not enough.
Extending the music analogy, we could call those powers of two "octaves", and divide it into twelve exponentially-spaced steps (i.e. 2^(years/12)).
The break even is about 75 steps (i.e. six octaves and three steps), which is about 76 years, since 2^(75/12) = 76.1.
__del__ 8 hours ago [-]
i don't think time moves faster as we age, i think our perceived duration of early life grows because we keep thinking about it.
for example, i have spent 35 years thinking about the events which took place at age 8, but i have only spent 8 years thinking about the events of age 35.
transcranial 1 hours ago [-]
Hence why time tends to slow down while living in the moment rather than reminiscing or dwelling on the past.
drdrek 10 hours ago [-]
Its funny to me that adolescence is until 20, where I'm from its 18 or even sooner.
swiftcoder 10 hours ago [-]
In places it would be considered until 21 (US drinking age, many folks still in university till 21-22)
chuckleplant 13 hours ago [-]
Hi, I made this! I don't know how it got to this page. Thanks for the support :)
reconnecting 10 hours ago [-]
Interesting.
Perhaps it would make sense to reverse time from bottom to top. Right now it reflects the standard flow of time, forward, like on a watch. But in reality, our time is only running out.
When you have a timeline going from top to bottom, it feels like it will keep going further, but if you reverse it, you see what's left — without illusion.
volemo 11 hours ago [-]
Thanks for making this. Genuinely something I needed, but not enough to actually build it. ^^
(Hope this doesn't sound wrong. I believe the "trimming hangnails" is an important and often overlooked job.)
inverno303 12 hours ago [-]
I started the day singing, then I opened this link. ;_;
ninjalanternshk 10 hours ago [-]
Bug report: Your calendar labels me as “mature adult” when in fact I am not.
So what is it for? To know how life periods span and change one into another? I like it but I am struggling to find a use case
chuckleplant 10 hours ago [-]
Time is precious. It's so you get a birds eye view of how you've spent your time, and decide how to spend it next
0gs 8 hours ago [-]
but the only "how" you can add is by connecting your linkedin? is that the only meaning my life is allowed to have? i can't talk about all the cool stuff i do on linkedin, i'd never get a job again.
staticshock 13 hours ago [-]
Love it!
Bug report, if you're the author: I can't delete periods.
Feature request: I wanna be able to move periods from one layer to another.
chuckleplant 13 hours ago [-]
What platform / browser? Note that if you opened through a shared link you may be in view only mode. If that's the case I'll try making it more obvious
chuckleplant 13 hours ago [-]
nevermind, got a repro. thanks
chuckleplant 13 hours ago [-]
Bug is fixed, request backlogged :)
josefrichter 9 hours ago [-]
"Are you still alive?" dropdown is diabolical :-)
vault 9 hours ago [-]
The share & restore feature is not working for me. Only the birthday is restored. Other settings & skip tutorial are reset.
chuckleplant 8 hours ago [-]
If you open it on another machine / browser you'll have a fresh start. Note that it's serverless. Share URLs serialize layer and period data. You should see layers and periods that you were viewing when you clicked Share.
manueltgomes 11 hours ago [-]
Design is amazing. Well done.
I inserted my birthday and got "Enter a real Gregorian date.".
Only then I understood I needed to insert "mm dd yyyy". User error for sure :) but this date format really annoys me
chuckleplant 11 hours ago [-]
It should be browser locale/region dependent. You may be able to fix it globally from your browser settings.
volemo 11 hours ago [-]
Hmm, I'm using Safari and don't see anything like this in the browser settings. And the OS is definitely set up to use the one true way.
manueltgomes 11 hours ago [-]
Like I said "user error" :). you're right thanks!
volemo 11 hours ago [-]
Very cool! Thanks for including psychophysics setting. I wish there was one for date format because mm/dd/yyyy breaks my brain a little.
eps 8 hours ago [-]
Bug report - on iPad it's impossible to exit full screen mode, need to reload the page.
chuckleplant 8 hours ago [-]
Noted, thanks. I'll need to get an iPad though...
cagz 13 hours ago [-]
I like how far mature adulthood goes :) One never gets old.
unixhero 14 hours ago [-]
Yeah no I don't want to use lifetime trackers on myself. It is a trigger for depression
11 hours ago [-]
russellbeattie 12 hours ago [-]
As a 54 year old, viewing the grid with the Weber-Fechner "psychophysics" grid is depressing as hell. Thanks.
bartvk 11 hours ago [-]
My grandmother is over a hundred years old. You may have a lot of years to live yet.
chuckleplant 10 hours ago [-]
I completely understand this. My goal is not making people feel bad, to the contrary. It's so marvelous to me to realize how precious time is.
aiscoming 14 hours ago [-]
the design is so beautiful
BrenBarn 11 hours ago [-]
I saw "import from LinkedIn" and closed the tab.
chuckleplant 10 hours ago [-]
It's not a direct import, nor does it connect accounts or anything. It's an extension that lets you gather your profile data. It's just easier than entering each period by hand. I added it for convenience mainly.
soupspaces 8 hours ago [-]
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pointlessone 11 hours ago [-]
Where do I put my mother’s maiden name and my first pet name?
I guess the "natural" base to use to get the "right" number of increments is a pointless exercise, since it ultimately bottoms out in the question of "why is a regular year as long as it is?", but if we assume a base of 2, I'm currently in my 6th log year, and hope to die comfortably into my 7th. Actuarial odds are >80% in my favor.
Extending the music analogy, we could call those powers of two "octaves", and divide it into twelve exponentially-spaced steps (i.e. 2^(years/12)).
The break even is about 75 steps (i.e. six octaves and three steps), which is about 76 years, since 2^(75/12) = 76.1.
for example, i have spent 35 years thinking about the events which took place at age 8, but i have only spent 8 years thinking about the events of age 35.
Perhaps it would make sense to reverse time from bottom to top. Right now it reflects the standard flow of time, forward, like on a watch. But in reality, our time is only running out.
When you have a timeline going from top to bottom, it feels like it will keep going further, but if you reverse it, you see what's left — without illusion.
(Hope this doesn't sound wrong. I believe the "trimming hangnails" is an important and often overlooked job.)
Bug report, if you're the author: I can't delete periods.
Feature request: I wanna be able to move periods from one layer to another.