A Daily Stoic calendar alternative
The Daily Stoic Memento Mori calendar is a physical print — roughly a dot per week over about eighty years. Your Hours Are Numbered turns the same memento mori idea into a living daily practice: an interactive, free life-in-weeks view plus hour grading (green, amber or red) on any device. Choose the calendar for a beautiful desk object; choose Your Hours to actually run the review, every hour.
What the Daily Stoic calendar is
The Daily Stoic Memento Mori calendar is a physical print — a life-in-weeks grid you hang on the wall and shade in as the years pass. It sits alongside Daily Stoic's emails, books and journals, and like all of them it's a contemplative object: something to look at and be moved by.
Where it stops
- It's static. The print never changes; the week that just passed stays blank until you fill it in by hand.
- It's offline and separate from your day. It hangs on a wall, apart from where your hours actually get spent.
- It never records or prompts. A calendar can't note how you spent the weeks, and it never asks you to reflect on this one.
The stoic practice, made daily
Your Hours Are Numbered pairs an interactive life-in-weeks view with hour grading — you mark each block lived or lost, green, amber or red. It's Seneca's evening review made hourly: instead of contemplating finitude once a day from a wall, you attach it to the hour you just lived. And rest, people and play count as lived, not just work — this is about a life well spent, not a productivity score.
If you love the calendar, keep it on the wall. Then read what the stoic daily review is and open your life in weeks to actually run the practice it reminds you of.
FAQ
Is there a digital alternative to the Daily Stoic memento mori calendar?
Yes. Your Hours Are Numbered is a free, interactive memento mori tool: it draws your life in weeks on any device and adds a daily practice — you grade each hour green, amber or red. The Daily Stoic calendar is a physical print; Your Hours is the practice you do every day.
Does Your Hours Are Numbered replace Daily Stoic?
They do different jobs. Daily Stoic is a media brand — emails, books, journals and a memento mori calendar. Your Hours is an app for the daily stoic review: accounting for and grading your hours. Many people use both.
Is it free?
Yes — the life-in-weeks view and hour grading are free with no signup. Premium adds cloud sync, full history and export.