Life Graph Maker

Put age on the horizontal axis (from birth to now, or further if you want to plan ahead) and a feeling score on the vertical axis, usually -5 for your hardest times to +5 for your happiest, with 0 meaning "just okay". Think of 5 to 10 moments that stand out, give each an age and a score, plot them and join the dots. This page joins them with a smooth curve and shades everything above zero warm and everything below zero blue.

Score how it felt at the time, not how you see it today. There is no right answer and nobody else's scale to match. It helps to set your best moment to +5 and your hardest to -5 first, then place the rest between them. Scores are whole numbers from -5 to +5 (11 steps).

Yes. Enter your current age, then add moments at older ages. They are drawn with a dashed line and hollow dots, which works well for "future lifeline" or goal-setting lessons. The summary (highest point, curve type and so on) only uses moments up to your current age; with no past moments you get a prompt instead. Leave the current age empty and every moment counts as the past.

It only looks at the scores of your past moments, checked in this order. If your highest and lowest scores are 2 or less apart you are a Calm Lake; if you never went down, Steady Stairs; if your latest score is below zero, Just Before Dawn; with 5 or more ups and downs that change direction more than 3 times, Rollercoaster; if right now is your highest point, Late Bloomer; if you dropped below zero and climbed back to zero or above, Comeback V; otherwise Wave Rider. It describes the shape of the line, not your personality.

Tap "Blank worksheet PDF" and print the landscape page. It has name and date lines, a graph grid with -5 to +5 and an age scale (0-20, 0-40 or 0-80), an 8-row table for events, and three reflection questions. It suits SEL, advisory and career lessons, counseling groups and reminiscence sessions. Students can draw by hand, then type their events here for a clean image for a slide. A sample 45-minute plan is below.

No. Names, events and scores are never sent to a server or stored. The graph is drawn inside this browser only, and a refresh brings back the sample. Save an image or PDF if you want to keep it.

PNG at 1080×1080 (square posts), 1080×1920 (stories and phone wallpapers, with the event list under the graph) or 1600×1000 (slides). "A4 PDF" is one landscape A4 page (297×210 mm). It also prints on US Letter if you choose "Fit to page"; for A4 paper choose "Actual size".

Between two dots the curve never rises above or dips below them. It uses monotone cubic interpolation (the Fritsch-Carlson method), so a +5 moment never looks like +6 and a flat stretch does not wobble. Moments at the same or very close ages are nudged apart, but always kept inside the axis, so on a wide age range a dot can sit slightly off its exact age.

Good moments get a label above the dot and hard ones below. If a label would cover another label, a dot or the curve, it moves further up, down or sideways with a thin line back to its dot. With more than 10 moments the square image gets busy, so the 9:16 size (which lists every event) or the wide size is easier to read. Notes are capped at 14 characters.