For students. Built one at a time.
Everything due. Nothing else.
Margin pulls every assignment from Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, and your calendar onto one small screen on your desk. It doesn't do anything else.
Hand-numbered. Assembled at a kitchen table.
The whole product is one moment, repeated. Everything else on the device is built around it.
You walk past your desk on the way out.
Lab Report 3, due in four hours.
You stay home and write it.
Everything you already use. On a screen that doesn't.
Apple, Google, Outlook, Proton, Notion — anything that publishes an iCal feed shows up. Moodle and PrairieLearn arriving with batch two.
If you already use Canvas or Blackboard, you're almost done. There's a one-time browser plugin install on your laptop — about ten seconds — that watches your LMS for new assignments and pushes them to a private relay. The relay forwards them to your device over wi-fi, where they show up on the e-paper screen the next time it refreshes.
No feed. No scrolling. Just what's due.
An app on your phone is one swipe from everything else on your phone. You open it to see what's due. Twenty minutes later you're watching a video about lighthouse keepers. This isn't a discipline problem. It's the design of the thing.
A small object on your desk is a different category of attention. You walk past it. You see one red line, three task names, a date. You go back to whatever you were doing. The screen doesn't refresh while you watch. There's no feed. There's nothing else here.
That separation is the entire product.
Same week, five voices.
Five themes ship with the device. Cycle through them with one button.
+ Leopard, a fifth theme — see all themes →
I'm a physics freshman at Illinois. I got tired of opening five tabs every morning to figure out what was due. Margin is what I built instead.
— Mitch, founder
First batch. First fifty.
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$119 · USA & Canada to start