Wadi Yurt: Date Week

There is a particular quality to how people relate to future events that are still weeks or months away — they feel simultaneously very close and very distant, present in the mind but absent from the daily routine in a way that makes them easy to neglect preparing for. This app works against that psychological distance by keeping the countdown visible and current at all times. It tracks any date you choose to enter and presents the remaining time as a number you see every time you open your phone. That number is a bridge between today and the future event, and it changes the quality of the decisions you make in between. It is a simple mechanism, but it is one that makes the abstract concrete, and the distant present.