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by petargyurov 2210 days ago
Interesting. I have spatial sequence synesthesia [0] and number form synesthesia [1] and this feels a little weird to look at. It disagrees with my mental model of dates. But that's just me.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Spatial_sequence_s...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Number_form

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thanks for the perspective! how do you perceive time then?
It's very hard to describe as it's a structure that exists in my "mind's eye" and difficult to understand it. In fact, what I am about to write will probably sounds a bit bonkers.

I am able to switch to different views depending on the scale. For instance, when thinking about the week I see one thing than when I think about a period spanning years.

The week-view is very much linear at the start of the week but something weird happens near the weekend - it kind of twists back to the start - I can see the following week when I am thinking about Saturday or Sunday.

The yearly-view does a similar thing around winter and spring. The depiction on your site is actually somewhat representative of the general shape - if you take it and twist it a bit in 3D space you kind of get to what I see.

I realise all of this sounds insane haha. I honestly didn't even know it was a thing until a few years ago when I happened to read about it.

Whoa, ok. I'm even a bit jealous!

I know that many people perceive time as a spiral

Feature request: synesthesia view ;)

Anyway, cool project, I hope it takes off. My only feedback would be that the minimalist website design makes it a little hard to parse information (especially the pricing screen).

haha, yeah thanks for the praise. I'll look into parseability.