--- title: "Life Grid: your life in weeks and months | VitaeMap" description: "The Life Grid lays out your journey cell by cell: one week or one month per square, coloured by category, tag or indicator. 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Vitae Rings is circular: best for comparing the same months across years and spotting cycles." } } ] }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Life Grid: your journey in weeks and months", "description": "An introduction to VitaeMap's Life Grid display mode: one cell per week or month, coloured by category, tag or indicator.", "inLanguage": "en", "url": "https://www.vitaemap.com/en/life-grid", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "VitaeMap" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "VitaeMap" } } ] --- [![VitaeMap](/assets/logo_vitaemap_transparent-BYKjWP9O.svg)VitaeMap ](/en) [Explore ](/en/explore)[Tutorial ](/en/tutorial) Toggle theme ![GB](https://flagcdn.com/gb.svg)English [Pro Space](/en/pro)[Login](/auth) Nous utilisons des cookies de mesure d'audience (analytiques) pour améliorer votre expérience. Les cookies strictement nécessaires et fonctionnels (comme la mémorisation de votre langue) sont toujours actifs et ne requièrent pas votre consentement. Vous pouvez accepter ou refuser les cookies analytiques, conformément au RGPD. RefuserAccepter Visualization # Life Grid: your journey in weeks and months An 80-year life fits in a little over 4,000 weeks. Laid side by side, those weeks form a grid that fits on one screen — and it changes how you look at the time already lived. VitaeMap's Life Grid fills those cells with your real events. [Create my VitaeMap](/en/quick-map)[Browse public examples](/en/explore) Free, no credit card required. ## What is the Life Grid? The Life Grid is a VitaeMap display mode inspired by the classic "life in weeks" chart. Time is cut into cells: one row per year, one cell per week (52 per row) or per month (12 per row). A grey cell is a period with no recorded event; a coloured cell contains at least one. A click opens the event, and a dot marks clickable cells when colouring uses a gradient. ## How to read the grid ### One row = one year Years stack from top to bottom. The height of the grid is the time span covered by your VitaeMap. ### One cell = one week or one month You choose the granularity. Weeks give the fine grain and the "4,000 weeks" effect; months give a calmer read, better for long journeys. ### Colour by category, tag or indicator Categorical colouring with a colour-blind friendly palette, or a continuous indicator gradient for premium accounts (impact, satisfaction, emotional intensity, level). ### Every cell is clickable Hover for a preview, click for the detail. When several events fall in the same cell, a picker lets you choose. ## Setting it up The Life Grid is enabled from your VitaeMap editor, in the Display modes tab. ![Weeks or months](/lifemap/life-grid-setup.jpg) ### Weeks or months Pick the granularity and the time span: your events, your birth date, or any custom date. [Create a VitaeMap](/en/quick-map) ![Colours and gradients](/lifemap/life-grid-exemple.jpg) ### Colours and gradients Category, tag, or indicator gradient with optional interpolation of event-free periods (premium). ## What the grid reveals ### Time becomes tangible Seeing the weeks already gone, in one block, does something no list can do: time stops being abstract. It is the best nudge to start documenting your life again. ### Gaps say as much as cells Empty periods are not empty lives: they are undocumented zones. The grid makes them visible, and makes you want to fill them. ### Chapters emerge Coloured by category, the grid surfaces the big phases: studies, first job, moving abroad, career change. Blocks of colour draw chapters. ### Readable on mobile On small screens each year automatically splits into two half-year rows: no more horizontal scrolling. ## Frequently asked questions Is the Life Grid free? Yes. The mode is available on every account. Only indicator gradient colouring and interpolation of event-free periods require premium. How are short events handled? An event shorter than 24 hours occupies a single cell, even when it crosses midnight. A long event colours every cell it spans. Can the grid start at my birth? Yes: the start date can follow your first event, your birth date, or any date you choose. How is it different from Vitae Rings? The Life Grid is rectangular and sequential: best for measuring and counting time. Vitae Rings is circular: best for comparing the same months across years and spotting cycles. ## Read next [ Vitae Rings The circular reading, like the rings of a tree. ](/en/vitae-rings)[ Interactive life map How a VitaeMap works in general. ](/en/interactive-life-map)[ Life review Taking stock with these visualizations. ](/en/life-review) ## Fill in your cells Add your events, switch on the Life Grid and watch your journey appear week after week. 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