OYLIW · oyliw.com
Your whole life, in weeks.
Every box is one week of a life.Enter your birthdate to see yours fill in.
What is this?
It's an idea from Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks: draw a long life as a grid of weeks, and suddenly time feels real. Each row is a year; each box, one week. Seeing them all at once — and how many you've already lived — lands in a way a number never does.
About this tool
OYLIW draws a whole human life as a grid of weeks — one small box per week, one row per year — and fills in the ones already lived. It is a keepsake for thinking about time, not a productivity tracker: enter a birthdate, see where you are, and mark the weeks that mattered. The maths and the drawing both happen in your browser, and unless you sign in, your birthdate stays on your device.
Common questions
What is OYLIW?
OYLIW (Offload Your Life in Weeks) is a free life calendar. It draws a long life as a grid of about 4,680 weeks — each box one week, each row one year — with the weeks already lived filled in. You can mark milestones and chapters on the grid and export it as an image.
How many weeks have I lived, and how is that worked out?
From a birthdate alone. We count the whole weeks between the day you were born and today — a person born in 1990 has lived roughly 1,900 weeks by 2026. The grid's total length comes from a life-expectancy figure you set yourself: 90 years by default, adjustable from 1 to 125. You can also view the same life in months or years instead of weeks.
Where is my birthdate stored?
On your device, unless you choose otherwise. Your birthdate stays on your device: the maths and the drawing both happen in your browser, and your birthdate, labels, milestones and chapters are saved in your browser's own storage. Signed out — the default, and how most people use this — no network request carries them, and we could not produce them if someone asked. The trade-off is that we cannot recover your grid for you if you clear your browser data. That is what the optional Google sign-in fixes: if you sign in, a copy of your grid is stored on our servers so it can follow you to another device, and your birthdate is kept as a year, not an exact date, unless you specifically ask us to keep the day. Signed in, you can also create a shareable link that puts a page for that grid on our servers — anyone holding the link can open it, it is never listed in search, it shows year-level dates rather than exact ones, and you can switch it off at any time.
Does this predict how long I will live?
No. Life expectancy here is a configurable assumption, not a prediction. The figure you set decides only how large the grid is drawn; it is not actuarial, medical, insurance, or financial advice, and the product knows nothing about you beyond a date you typed in. If this leaves you feeling distressed rather than reflective, please put it down and talk to someone.
Whose idea is this?
It stands on two lovely originals: Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks, which made the idea unforgettable, and Bryan Braun's interactive version, which first let you enter your own birthdate. We are grateful to both — go read and play with the originals.
Is it free?
Yes. Drawing a grid, marking it, and exporting an image are free and need no account. There is nothing to install and nothing to subscribe to. The optional sign-in is also free — it saves your grid across devices, it does not unlock anything.