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Writing about Margin. The facts, dated.
A short description to quote, who makes it, when each version reached the Chrome Web Store, and the logo and screenshots. Margin is made by one person, and every email is read by that person.
Last updated · 30 October 2026
In short
Margin is a free Chrome extension for college students. It reads your upcoming Canvas assignments and shows them in a free side panel or your Todoist. The Margin Pass keeps the whole term: $9.99 a semester, bought inside the extension, and it does not renew.
Margin is built by Mitch Ring, a physics student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It is independent and unfunded: there is no team and there are no investors.
What Margin reads, what it keeps, and where, is set out in the privacy policy. The prices are on the pricing page.
Who makes it
I'm a physics major at Illinois. I grew tired of opening five tabs every morning to figure out what was due. Margin is what I built instead.
Mitch Ring, founder · Mitch Ring on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
Margin is run by Mitch Ring as a sole proprietorship trading as Marginalia. No school, the University of Illinois included, runs, endorses or partners with Margin. More on the about page.
Dates
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Version 2.5.2, the first public version, on the Chrome Web Store. Before this, Margin was a small private beta. | |
| Version 2.5.3. The extension took its current name: Margin | Canvas Assignment Planner + Todoist. | |
| Version 2.6.0. Fewer duplicates, fewer dead ends: if you read both Canvas and your Canvas calendar feed, an assignment no longer shows up twice. | |
| Version 2.7.0. Groundwork, mostly out of sight. | |
| Version 2.8.1. Margin Study, a page of its own: exams, topics, and where the next block goes. | |
| Version 2.9.0. The side panel is now free for everyone. |
Every version, with what changed in it, is in the changelog. The longer story is in the build log.
Names and spelling
- The name is Margin in sentences and in product names: Margin Pass, Margin Study. Only the wordmark, in logos and headers, is a lowercase “margin”.
- The tagline is Everything due. Nothing else.
- The address is
margin.computer. There is no iOS or Android version. - The desk dashboard cannot be bought yet.
Logo and screenshots
The screenshots are of the real extension, with invented courses and names. Each links to the full-size file.
Where to write
| Address | What it's for | Reply |
|---|---|---|
| hello@margin.computer | Instructors, advisors, campus offices and press, and anything else. | A person reads it. We aim to reply within five business days. |
Every other address is on the contact page.
Marginalia.
Governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States.