Margin

I automate a lot of small things — status reports, invoices, the same four clicks every morning — and never had a way to see what any of it actually bought me. Saved time is invisible until you look at it.

Margin is my way of looking. You log a task you no longer do, and the hours it used to take fill into a grid of all 8,760 hours in a year. It fills from January, so you watch the year come back block by block. Months warm up as they fill.

It’s not a tracker and it isn’t trying to be productive. It’s just a nice way to see the time automation hands back. A year is a lot of hours — good to know some of them are yours again.