WildZooWorks / YLV

Your Life Visualizer

A simple, striking way to see your entire life at a glance — every year, month, or week you've lived, and every one still ahead.

What is it?

Enter your date of birth. Every cell that represents time you've already lived fills in. Every empty cell is still ahead of you.

At 90 years of age, a full life is 4,680 weeks, 1,080 months, or 90 years. Seeing them all at once — in one grid — tends to reframe how you think about time.

The idea comes from Tim Urban's essay Your Life in Weeks on Wait But Why, where he visualized his own life this way and found it startling and clarifying.

Four views

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Years

90 cells · diamond grid

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Months

1,080 cells · dot grid

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Weeks

4,680 cells · square grid

Days

32,850 cells · zoomable grid

How to use it

Enter your date of birth — month, day, year.
Switch between Years, Months, Weeks, and Days with the view buttons.
The stat bar shows how many units you've lived, your percentage through a 90-year life, and how many remain.
Your date of birth is saved in your browser so it loads automatically next time.
Once a date is entered, the Print button in the nav activates — it prints the chart only, no controls.
In Days view, scroll or pinch to zoom in — individual days become visible as you scale up.

Customize it

Customize Your Life — Open now →

Season colors — summers in yellow, winters in white, springs in green, falls in orange. Pick your own colors and emojis.
Decade tints — a distinct color for each decade of your life, only applied to years you've lived
Emoji & icon markers — replace fills with any emoji: planes ✈️, mountains ⛰️, music 🎵, whatever represents your life
Custom date ranges — mark a chapter with a color and label ("college years", "NYC chapter", "pandemic")
Holiday calendars — 15 countries via built-in calendar, or paste any .ics file
Shareable links — your entire config encodes into a URL. Share it; anyone who opens it sees your personalized chart.
Embed on any site — one iframe snippet, generated automatically from your share link (see below)

Embed on your site

You can display your personalized chart on any website with a single line of HTML. No account required, no dependencies.

Open the Customize page and build your chart — choose colors, seasons, decades, emoji markers, whatever you like.
Scroll to the Embed Your Chart section in the left panel. Adjust the width and height for your site layout.
Click Copy Snippet — you'll get a snippet like this:

Paste it into any HTML page, Notion embed block, Webflow, Squarespace, or WordPress custom HTML widget. The config is encoded in the URL — the iframe is self-contained and loads your exact chart.

Want the full standalone files instead? Use the Download ZIP link on the Visualizer page to get a self-hosted package you can theme and deploy anywhere.

About YLV

YLV (Your Life Visualizer) is a WildZooWorks tool — part of a portfolio of reusable, embeddable products built to stand alone and ship to other sites. It is fully self-contained: no frameworks, no CDN dependencies, no tracking. Unzip and host it anywhere.

The theme system is designed to be swapped out: every color lives in a CSS custom property, and the themes.js config file lets any site override the visual identity without touching the logic.

Versions & releases

Current public release: v1.0.0 (June 2026)

YLV is developed in two stages. New features are built and tested on a private dev instance first. Once stable, they are promoted to this public release at tools.wildzooworks.com.

What's in v1.0.0: Visualize, Customize (rule engine, holiday calendars, embed), Add Events, Preview (standalone share links), and Print support. Up next: Year View, additional event decks, event overlay on the main chart.

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Concept by Tim Urban / Wait But Why. YLV is a ground-up implementation by WildZooWorks.