Helping improve Margin Almanac
I'm Mitch, and I make Margin. Almanac is its planner: a page on your phone that reads your Todoist and Google Calendar and suggests what to do next. You're testing it from an invite. This page is about one extra choice: whether Almanac keeps data that helps me improve it.
What stays the same either way
- Almanac keeps what it needs to run, listed on margin.computer/privacy: due times, minutes and when you're busy, without names. That happens whether or not you check the box.
- Your Pass comes with the invite. It doesn't depend on this choice, and you keep it if you leave.
What Almanac also keeps if you check "Help improve Almanac"
- What happened to each suggestion: shown, started, Not today, or passed over, how long until you started, and which other suggestion was offered.
- The reason you tap when you choose Not today.
- How long tasks took against their estimates.
- When tasks were done against when they were due, and how far ahead Almanac first saw them.
- What happened to the days and blocks it planned: suggested, accepted, moved, deleted or done.
- Tasks you mark as wrong, and which way.
- How long each setup step took, where you stopped, and any errors.
- The shape of your calendar: how many busy periods each day and how long they are. No titles.
- Your answer to one optional question a week.
- Each time you tap "Something's off", and your note if you write one. Notes are kept on Margin's server, in a table of their own, apart from everything else Almanac keeps.
I may also ask you for two 15-minute conversations, outside the app. You can say no. My notes from them follow the same rules as the rest.
What it never includes
Task names, calendar titles, grades or locations. A note is the one place you type freely, so please leave names out of it.
Why
To make Almanac's suggestions, estimates and plans better, and to find bugs before people I don't know use it.
Who sees it, and for how long
- Only me and the AI I work with (Anthropic's Claude, in the United States), on a copy taken from Margin's server. It isn't sold or given to anyone beyond that.
- It's linked to your account, so I can delete it when you ask.
- I keep it, notes included, until May 31, 2027. Then I delete it, apart from weekly totals across testers with no account attached. With so few testers, a weekly total can still describe one person.
Leaving
- Tap "Leave the beta" on /today at any time, or email hello@margin.computer. That stops it and deletes what was kept at once, including any copy I took for analysis and my notes from our conversations. Anthropic, which runs the AI, keeps what it was sent for a short time under its own terms, then deletes it. Margin's encrypted backups age out as the privacy page describes.
- You keep your Pass.
Your choices
- This is voluntary and unpaid.
- Every question in it is optional.
- Questions go to hello@margin.computer.
You need to be 18 or older and live in the US.
Checking "Help improve Almanac" means you agree to this. Leaving it empty means you don't, and Almanac works the same.