Motivation & wellbeing
Reflect with memento mori
Updated May 20261 min read
Memento Mori is a thousand-week visualization. Set your birthday once and the tool draws every week of an average lifespan as a small dot — past weeks dim, future ones lit. Useful when the calendar feels infinite.
From the Motivation screen
- Open the Motivation screen (sidebar → Motivation).
- Tap the Reflective feeling tile. Memento Mori is the reflective
companion tool — IdealWeek opens it when you choose this tile.
Motivation feeling tiles - Set your birthday the first time you open the tool. The grid
builds from there.
Birthday picker - Each visit rotates the visual. Memento Mori cycles through three
views in turn — a Sundays-left counter, a life-in-weeks grid (52 × 80),
and a this-quarter weight indicator. Re-open the tool to see the next
one.
Memento mori weeks grid
Tips
- The tool isn't morbid — it's a lens. The weeks grid is especially potent: each dot is one week of a typical 80-year span.
- Birthday is stored on your account so the visualization stays consistent across devices.
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