2025 Was Brutal: Taming 2026

As 2026 draws near, I’m releasing the Chronodex Full-Year Edition.

For the first time since its creation, I had the space to design the entire year instead of just six months.

It’s also the first full year since I made Chronodex a paid product in June 2024—after 14 years of sharing it freely. What a journey. Something I built for myself became a movement for others. A simple idea: liberate the diary page. Wrap time into a circle. Turn schedules into stories. Free yourself from the tyranny of grids.

2025 wasn’t gentle. It was an emotional and existential roller coaster that tested every layer of me. I broke. I rebuilt. I doubted. I prayed. Sometimes all within a day. Still, I’m grateful for the breaking—it made me conscious again.

For years, life felt “not up to me.” Then God whispered,

“Fine. What if it were entirely up to you?”

That question stayed. It sharpened how I spend my hours. Time and energy are expensive currencies; where we invest them defines our days.

You are always one decision away from changing everything.

Before you sleep, and when you wake, spend time being grateful—for what you already have, for who you are, for simply being awake enough to notice the view from above.

And here’s a beautiful surprise: The Stationery King, Masayuki Takabatake, explained Chronodex in one of his regular live streams. I captured it—with English, Chinese, and Japanese subtitles—so you can see it through his lens.

A side story: when friends visited Hong Kong recently, I used Chronodex to plan their tour. They hadn’t been back since 2019—after the unrest, after Covid. Walking the city again, seeing their wonder, reminded me why I made this tool: to help us live intentionally in time.

If you’re new and wondering how to use Chronodex, there’s a simple video in the FAQ section that shows exactly how I do it.

Let’s make 2026 transformative, rewarding, loved, and treasured.

Time, after all, is the one thing we truly design.