Year Glance

A gentle year progress companion for those who lose track of time. Calming dots, supportive messages, just awareness.

Year Glance — A Gentle Year Progress Companion Do you sometimes lose track of where you are in the year? Year Glance gives you a calm, beautiful snapshot of your year's progress — no productivity pressure, no streaks, no guilt. Just peaceful awareness. Click the icon in your toolbar and see the year laid out as a quiet visualization. Days that have passed, the day you're in right now, and the days still ahead — each represented with care. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS Open the popup anytime to see: • Your current day number and year progress percentage • A calming visualization of all 365 (or 366) days • A gentle, time-aware message that changes with the time of day • Today's dot, softly pulsing with a box-breathing rhythm That's it. No dashboards, no goals, no reminders. Just a moment of quiet perspective. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THREE VISUALIZATION LAYOUTS Switch between layouts with a single click: Grid — Every day of the year as a dot in a clean grid. Simple and familiar. You can see at a glance how far you've come. Fibonacci Spiral — Days arranged in a golden angle spiral, inspired by patterns found in nature. Earlier days sit on the outer edge and the year winds inward. Something about it just feels right. Bar — Each month as a horizontal row of small bars, with month numbers on the left. A more structured view that lets you see the shape of each month. All three layouts share the same gentle pulse animation on today's marker, breathing in and out on a calm 16-second cycle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DARK AND LIGHT MODE Year Glance supports both dark and light themes. By default it follows your system preference, but you can override it with the theme toggle. Three modes: system, light, and dark. The color palette is carefully chosen — soft purples and warm oranges that feel calming in both themes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GENTLE MESSAGES Each time you open Year Glance, you'll see a short, supportive message. These messages are aware of the time of day: Morning — "This day is open." / "No rush to be anything yet." / "Begin when you're ready." Midday — "It's okay to slow down." / "You're exactly on time." / "Steady is its own speed." Evening — "Enough for one day." / "Let today soften." / "Tomorrow will wait." The messages rotate based on the day of the year, so you'll see a different one each day. They're meant to feel like a quiet companion, not a motivational poster. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY FIRST Year Glance requests zero permissions. None. It doesn't access your browsing history, tabs, bookmarks, or anything else. It doesn't connect to any server. There is no analytics, no tracking, no data collection of any kind. Your layout and theme preferences are saved locally in your browser using localStorage. That data never leaves your machine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO IS THIS FOR? • People with ADHD or time blindness who sometimes forget what month it is • Anyone who wants a calmer relationship with time • People who like beautiful, minimal tools • Anyone who's tired of productivity apps that make you feel behind Year Glance doesn't want you to do more. It just wants you to know where you are. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DETAILS • Manifest V3 (latest Chrome extension standard) • No permissions required • Tiny footprint — pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript • No external dependencies or network requests • Smooth 60fps animation • Preferences persist across sessions • Works offline — always ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Year Glance is open source and built with care. If the year feels like it's slipping by, maybe a gentle glance is all you need.