One Dot - Visualize your life in dots with a daily-updating wallpaper
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Transform time into visual art. Generate custom high-resolution wallpapers for memento mori and productivity tracking. One dot per day, visualized beautifully. One Dot turns your wallpaper into a daily-updating view of time. Instead of a static background, it shows days, weeks, months, or quarters as they pass. Built for iOS using Shortcuts, it updates automatically once per day. A simple way to keep time visible without notifications or tracking.
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PurrrrrFocus Pomodoro
Love this idea — turning time into something visible rather than something that pings you is really thoughtful.
Curious how people tend to use it most: as a productivity reminder, or more as a reflective / memento mori tool?
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@louis_chen5 Exactly! That’s the core idea -- making time visible. :)
I guess, people use it in a mix of ways. I'm using it mostly on the reflective side, like a “memento mori” -- noticing how fast life moves and appreciating each day, and how much I have to get done.
Super Comments
Wow, what an amazing, idea love it, congrats man :)
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@aspiiire Thank you!
Sir why I am unable to send you mail on your Gmail that you have mentioned on your website.
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@amardeep_prasad_barai Hey! You can contact me on mail hello@onedot.today or DM me on X: https://x.com/collasyxx
Minara
What stood out to me about One Dot is how much intention there seems to be behind keeping the concept simple.
Products with minimal interfaces often risk feeling vague, but One Dot doesn’t come across that way. Instead, the simplicity feels deliberate — like the product is asking users to focus on one clear action or idea at a time. From a UX perspective, that kind of constraint can be surprisingly powerful.
As a first impression, it feels calm and purposeful rather than unfinished, which is a hard balance to strike with something this minimal.
Man, this hits different as someone turning 30 this year. Seeing life as dots really puts things in perspective. Makes you want to make each one count.
Great work on this!
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@vouchy Hey! Just needed something more than a regular wallpaper. :)
I love the idea! There are some privacy concerns though
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@eren_kiratli Thank you! Could you elaborate?
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@new_user___0062026ab2c36800cd0b32b Hey there! Since it's a webapp I don't have access to native widgets API, therefore it's available as a wallpaper for now. But! You could set the wallpaper to the homescreen instead of a lockscreen, it would act the same way.
How to download wallpaper.
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@nithin_ganer Just go to the https://onedot.today, click "create wallpaper", customize to your liking and follow the steps to setup the iOS Shortcuts. :)