Why Visualizing Your Life in Weeks Makes You More Productive
By Tyler Dane•November 11, 2025
My Life In Weeks is a simple, yet powerful little app. I built it because, as an ambitious guy who loves his productivity apps, I often feel the pressure to do MORE.
Schedule more meetings,
Complete more tasks,
Ship more features.
But seeing how few boxes I have left makes me pause and consider what deserves to fill them.
As Oliver Burkeman wrote in Four Thousand Weeks:
“The real measure of any time management technique is whether it helps you neglect the right things.”
Visualizing time like this makes it easier for me to say "no" more, which is the ultimate productivity hack.
“No, I don’t need to finish 20 tasks — just these 3.”
“No, we’re not launching on every platform — we’re perfecting web first.”
“No, I don’t want to play pickleball.”
If you already say “no” fluently, you probably don’t need to see a grid of 4,000 dots to remind you.
But for us mortals, seeing our time visually can be the jolt we need to start living it more intentionally.
Ready to try?