Where Does the Day Go?

What it is

Where Does the Day Go? is an interactive article about why a day feels so short. It starts from the arithmetic: 24 hours, about 7 of them asleep, which leaves 17. Does your day feel like 17 hours? Then it hands you sliders for work, home and sleep, draws your day as a neat colored bar, admires it, and starts taking it apart.

How to play

Scroll and answer. Set the three sliders, eight hours each by default, and the bar appears in three colors. Then the article adds the things you forgot: how long your morning routine takes, lunch, dinner, the commute, and more, each as a row of choices. Every answer carves a new slice out of the bar and the article comments on what is left, in a sentence or two, before asking the next question. Keep scrolling.

What makes it different

It is a spreadsheet with a sense of humor. The numbers are yours, so the result is yours, and the slow demolition of the beautiful eight-eight-eight bar is funnier and more pointed than any productivity article. It shows you where the hours went, one radio button at a time, and it does it in short, dry comments.

Why it is on Bored

An article that makes you do math about your own life at ten in the evening is at least addictive, and useless in the sense that knowing will not give you the hours back. It runs with no download and no account. The site shows a consent dialog on the first visit and a row of sponsored links above the article.

Tips

• Answer honestly, the point evaporates if you flatter yourself
• Watch the bar, not the text, as each slice goes in
• Do it once for a weekday and once for a weekend
• Do not skip ahead, the order is the point

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