What Ömür is
A calendar that starts at a single day and pulls back until every year you get fits on one screen. You write down what mattered, and the days you have already spent stay filled in behind you.
The word
Ömür is Turkish for a lifetime — not life as an idea, but the span you are given, the one that runs out. It came into Turkish from the Arabic ʿumr. In everyday speech it turns warm as well: call someone ömür and you are saying they are a joy to be around.
Both meanings are the product. It counts, and it is meant to be good company while it does.
What it shows
One grid, four ways of looking at it. A single day, with what you wrote on it. A month. A year. And then the whole thing: 1,080 months, roughly 32,900 days, at 90 years — the length you can change, because it is your calendar and nobody knows the real number.
Every dot is a day. The ones behind you are filled; the ones ahead are not. That is the entire idea, and it is why zooming out does not summarise anything — you are looking at the same days, further away.
Why a whole life on one screen
A normal calendar is very good at next Tuesday and has nothing to say about the shape of a decade. You can scroll it forever, so it feels endless, and a thing that feels endless is a thing you postpone against. Fit the whole span in one frame and the arithmetic stops being abstract: you can see the part that is already behind you, and you did not have to be told.
The other half is memory. A year you did not write down is a year you cannot find again. Notes, links and photos attach to the day they belong to, so the grid slowly turns from a countdown into a record.
What it costs and what it does not do
- It is free, and there is no account. Type a date and it works.
- It stays on your device. Your notes live in your browser. If you want the same calendar on your phone you can sign in later with an email address, and only then does anything reach a server.
- Nothing is loaded from anywhere else. No analytics, no ads, no trackers, no fonts from another host — which is also why you were never asked about cookies. The details are on the privacy page.
- You can take it with you. Settings has an export button, and the calendar prints to a single sheet.
Who made it
Ömür is built and run by one person, at Croppy, in the Netherlands. It is not backed by anyone, so there is nobody to sell your diary to. The registration details are at the bottom of this page, and the address for anything at all is tersintepe@gmail.com.
Open the calendar — it takes a date of birth and nothing else.