About Time to Go

We are good at reading dates and surprisingly bad at feeling the scale between them.

Time to Go was built around a simple idea: equal units of time become easier to understand when they occupy equal space.

A grid can make a distant date feel concrete without turning it into a dramatic countdown.

The idea behind the grid

The broader “life in weeks” idea has appeared in many forms and was famously popularized online by Wait But Why.

Time to Go uses that visual tradition as a starting point, but applies it to arbitrary intervals and to public future dates. Its design, writing, data model and event pages are independently created for this project.

More than a countdown

A countdown answers “how long until?”. A Time to Go grid also shows “how much of the available interval has already passed?”.

That difference is especially useful for long-term commitments and targets.

Care with future dates

Future plans change. Some dates are exact; others are only a year, a target period or a forecast.

Time to Go preserves those distinctions, cites authoritative sources on editorial pages and keeps target revisions when they matter.