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.
Backed by Research, Rooted in Tradition
Moment integrates modern psychology and ancient contemplative traditions that encourage people to remember their mortality.
Research shows that reflecting on death can actually increase happiness, deepen gratitude, and help people focus on what truly matters. Studies have found that contemplating mortality can make people more attuned to positive emotions¹, motivate prosocial behavior like helping others², and even improve health choices³. And the reflection practices can be simple: journaling, meditation, or small reminders.
Traditional practices like Buddhist maranasati (mindfulness of death) or the Stoic habit of memento mori aren't meant to be morbid. They are timeless ways to sharpen appreciation for the present. Contemporary studies of death-focused meditation confirm that it can reduce death anxiety and increase mindfulness and self-compassion⁴. Long-term studies have also shown that rituals like grave visitations are linked to lower depression and apathy in older adults⁵.
Moment builds on this lineage, using small, structured reflections to create awareness of life's impermanence, break through distractions with urgency, and impart clarity, presence, and meaning.