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I had this idea for a minimal life countdown which is positioned at the exit of your house (eg inside the front door) and shows you how many days left you have in your life each time you leave the house.

Reading this makes me wonder if a better place for it would be somewhere on the outside of your doorway... :)

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I use an app called Days Of Life for iOS that does precisely this, at a configurable time every day. I chose 17:00.

I have experimented with an app that always displays a couple of major events in the past and some in the future (including life expectancy) on a timeline. However, after a couple of days I couldn't care less about this information, because it changes so unnoticeably and slowly. It didn't help me at all to get a sense for these time scales.

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