Memento Mori Planner: Remember Your Time is Finite
A daily PDF planner inspired by the practice of memento mori. Plan your time and reflect on your life with personalized visualizations and 365 original journaling prompts. Optimized for e-ink devices.
$20
How it Works
Each Moment Planner works on any device that reads PDFs. The PDF is compatible with e-ink tablets, and is optimized for reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, and Supernote devices.
Annual Planner
The Moment Planner includes annual, monthly, weekly, and daily planning pages. Pages are hyperlinked to each other for easy navigation. Review your month or week, then quickly jump to the corresponding daily page.
Personalized Visualizations
The Moment Planner is generated based on your personal information. It takes your name, birthday, and gender to calculate your life time and life expectancy. Based on this data, each page features a visualization for tracking your progress through time. See your life in months, life in weeks, and a count of each day you have lived.
Daily Reflection
Every daily page features an original journaling prompt crafted for a brief reflection. The prompt is inspired by a unique accompanying quote. This library is drawn from philosophers, artists, and spiritual leaders who have wrestled with life's deepest questions.
Preview on Your Device
Download a sample page to test on your device before purchasing.
Rooted in Tradition, Confirmed by Research
Moment draws on ancient contemplative traditions that asked people to confront mortality directly, and on the recent psychological research that has begun to confirm what those traditions saw.
The findings are consistent with the tradition. Mortality reflection increases positive affect¹, motivates prosocial behavior², and improves health choices³. The practices themselves can be small: structured reflection, meditation, or brief reminders during the day.
Buddhist maranasati (mindfulness of death) and the Stoic habit of memento mori are not meant to be morbid. They are old practices for sharpening appreciation of the present. Contemporary studies of death-focused meditation find that it reduces death anxiety and increases self-compassion⁴, and long-term studies associate rituals like grave visitations with lower depression and apathy in older adults⁵.
Moment builds on this lineage. The practice is small — a quote, a prompt, a visualization — but the premise is old: confront finitude honestly, and the present comes into focus.