From the Models: choose an experiment
Three comparisons from Models. No account needed.
A 1.70 m human is about 16 billion hydrogen-atom diameters tall. A billion dollars is 1,000 million dollars. An 80-year reference contains 29,220 days, using 365.25 days per year.
Interactive controls appear when the experiment scripts load.
Using a 170 cm reference. Nothing is saved.
01 The idea
Budget the hours you choose.
- Committed time. Work hours, sleep, other fixed hours. Set once. Never scored.
- Free hours. 168 − sleep × 7 − work − other. This is the budget.
- Chosen work. Work beyond your usual hours. Only this part uses free hours.
- Just living. Free hours nobody logged. Plain ground, never waste.
- Intention. Each week: a little of everything, or lean into one bucket.
40 h work · 7.5 h sleep a night · 5 h other → about 70 free hours
02 Six buckets
Where free hours go.
W
Work · study lives here, by subject
H
Home · the house, errands
Q
Quality time · family and friends
F
Fitness · with IronCade
M
Meditation · with IronCade
S
Spirituality · with GUL
03 The week
A short talk, once a week.
- Last week. The mark replays intention → lived. One plain sentence.
- Roughly how many hours went to each? Six rows, pre-filled from what you logged. Mood is optional.
- This week. A little of everything, or lean into one.
- Keep going. The week closes and its square fills.
Log
A timer for a stretch you want to protect. Or add hours afterwards: 1, 2, 3, 5 or your own.
Recaps
Quarter, six months, year. Set against weeks lived, never weeks left.
Time
Day, week, month, year: intended against lived, and the free hours.
04 The living Allotment
The mark is the week.
the squarethis week's free hoursleftPeople & homeright, topBody & spiritright, bottomChosen workthe groundJust living
- “About 46 free hours this week.”
- “Work used 6 of your free hours.”
- “Just living: 12 h. That counts too.”
Example hours. Ink until a week is finished, then one hint.
05 Identity
Grey until something is finished.
The still icon
- One still, balanced frame. Icons cannot animate.
- Ink on concrete, always. The icon never carries a hint.
- Below 30 px, the small cut. Wider gutters, so the parts stay apart.
The wordmark
- Drawn, lowercase. Straight stems, flat-cut shoulders, no circles.
- Same weight as the mark's gutters.
Concrete
Concrete · ground#BDBEB9
Ink · type, mark#111111
Ash · time lived#8E8F8A
Plaster · wells#E4E4E0
Line#9C9D98
Six hints: only on something finished, always with the initial
WWork · cobalt#222BA5
HHome · walnut#7A5536
QQuality time · rose garnet#C75179
FFitness · acid#C6CF2F
MMeditation · white#FFFFFF
SSpirituality · moss#6EA353
Voice and interfaceHanken Grotesk 300–600
FiguresIBM Plex Mono, tabular
Labels11 px · tracked · uppercase
Hintsinside an ink outline, with the initial
Motion
- Moves only when time is logged or a week is replayed.
- Ease-out, 600 ms or longer. No bounce, no ticking.
- No part below 18 %. The silhouette always survives.
- Colour arrives last. One hint, when a week is finished.
- Reduced motion jumps. Every number stays.
06 Voice
A calm guardian.
- Speak rarely. One line per screen at most.
- Say true things. “About”, “roughly”. Never a prediction.
- Describe, never grade. No streaks, scores or “wasted”.
- Their intention is the yardstick. Not a norm, not other people.
- Every look back points forward. Keep going.
- Hold the sacred lightly. Family, faith and stillness are never gamified.
- Some of your week is already spoken for.
- Finite helps with the rest.
- Last week leaned into work.
- What would you like more of this week?
- Of your 2,300 free hours this year, 610 went to the people you love.
- Nothing logged yet. That's allowed.
- Keep going.
07 Principles
Core principles.
- Budget the chosen hours, not the whole week.
- Balance is set with you, not for you.
- Never count anything twice. Your estimate wins over the timer.
- Measured, never graded.
- Light to document, rich to look back on.
- Weeks lived, never weeks left.
- Calm by default.
08 Models
Further reflection.
Models sit beside the week, never in its way. The three experiments at the top come from here.
- Life · weeks lived, beside a published population table
- By age · the same figure across the table
- Scale, Money, Health · each with its sources
- Perspectives · thirty ways to see time, size and attention
- Method · how every number is made
The line it holdsContext, never a prediction of your life.
09 Privacy
Yours alone.
- Approval-only. Sign in with Google to request access.
- Only you can read your data. This device and your private account.
- Never in a URL, a page title or a social preview.
- No analytics or advertising code.
- Birth date is optional, asked only where it is used.
- IronCade and GUL stay off until you switch them on.
- Delete everything in one step.