Confront time. Live fully.
Aevum is a premium browser extension that transforms your standard "new tab" page into a breathtaking, contemplative visualization of time. It replaces the default blank canvas with a precision chronometer and a living grid that reflects the passage of your life.
By making time tangible, Aevum encourages focus, presence, and a deeper appreciation for the present moment.
- Dynamic Life Grid: Visualize your entire lifespan through a grid of temporal nodes. Choose to view your life mapped out in Weeks, Months, or Years.
- Physics-Based Fluid Dynamics: Watch time move. Aevum features a custom physics engine that renders fluid dynamics, ambient wave oscillations, and interactive click-and-drag splash physics inside the progress units.
- Precision Chronometer: Track the exact progression of your life down to the millisecond.
- Inverse Chronology: Toggle between seeing the time you have lived, or the time you have remaining based on your configured life expectancy.
- Premium Aesthetics: Designed with a "Clinical Monolith" philosophy. Features a high-quality atmospheric grain overlay, stark glassmorphism, and multiple curated themes (Dark, Ivory, Midnight, Cyber, Forest, Sunset, Monochrome).
- Typography Engine: Customize the mood of your chronometer with distinct typefaces: Clinical (Inter), Machine (Space Mono), Legacy (EB Garamond), and Ethereal (Crimson Pro).
- Deep Customization: Adjust granularity thresholds, scale factors, and structure flows (Rigid squares vs Organic circles) to make the grid entirely your own.
You can install Aevum natively in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Pre-packaged ZIP files (Aevum-Chrome-Extension.zip and Aevum-Firefox-Extension.zip) are available in this repository.
- Download
Aevum-Chrome-Extension.zipand extract it to a folder. - Open your browser and navigate to
chrome://extensions/. - Enable Developer mode in the top right corner.
- Click Load unpacked and select the folder where you extracted the extension.
- Open a new tab and confront time.
- Download
Aevum-Firefox-Extension.zipand extract it to a folder. - Open Firefox and navigate to
about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox. - Click Load Temporary Add-on...
- Select the
manifest.jsonfile from the extracted folder. - Open a new tab and confront time.
Don't want to install the extension yet? Experience the interactive physics and design directly in your browser.
Live Demo: imsovikde.github.io/Aevum
To configure your temporal origin, simply click the sleek toggle dot in the bottom corner of your new tab. This will open the settings panel where you can input your Date of Birth, adjust your Life Expectancy, and customize the visual physics and typography of the grid.
Author: Souvik Dey