- April 10, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Building a tool for ten years.
No VC, no hypergrowth, no pivot every six months. The math of 500 delighted users vs 50,000 frustrated ones.
- April 7, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Surveillance never made anyone better.
The research is clear: keystroke monitoring lowers output. Why the manager who trusts gets more.
- April 4, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
What Toggl, Harvest and Clockify do right.
An honest appraisal of our competitors. Five things each of them does better than we do.
- March 30, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
The real cost of a $12 seat.
Volume discount, payment terms, mid-year renegotiation. What the sticker price never tells you.
- March 28, 2026·1 min read·Patrick
The three gestures that make your time visible.
Not ten dashboards. Three gestures that cover 90% of a freelancer's work: start, bill, share.
- March 25, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Three roles, not thirty.
Member, Manager, Finance. The admin-complexity trap most SaaS never sees.
- March 22, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Québec taxes, and forgetting they exist.
Three fields you set once. A PDF your accountant won't complain about. Done.
- March 19, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Why 14 days, not 7, not 30.
Sablio's most debated product decision: how long does the journal keep raw traces? Here's the reasoning.
- March 15, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Saying no without losing the client.
Your time data is the best negotiation tool you own. Here's how to use it.
- March 11, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
What your client sees on a Sablio invoice.
No timestamps, no app names, no screenshots. Hours, projects, total. A guided tour.
- March 8, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
You don't need a little trophy.
A plumber doesn't get confetti when they finish a job. Why should your work app throw any at you?
- March 4, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
The email that goes with the invoice.
Short, dated, project-named. A template that spares you ten follow-up exchanges at month-end.
- March 2, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Scores killed work.
The day a studio sent its 'focus report' to a client, the team spent three weeks defending itself instead of working.
- February 28, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
The workshop journal, in 400 words.
What it holds, what it doesn't, when it erases, and why it's the central piece of Sablio.
- February 24, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Billing five minutes without shame.
The short call, the 8-minute email, the three-paragraph review. How to bill them without the client pushing back.
- February 22, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
The minute of retreat.
Why Sablio waits 60 seconds before wiping your data when you click 'Delete everything'.
- February 18, 2026·1 min read·Patrick
Silence as a feature.
We spent three weeks debating whether to add a Pomodoro bell. The answer was no. Here's the reasoning.
- February 14, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
What a forgotten block actually costs.
Eight minutes here, five minutes there. The raw arithmetic of a year of approximate tracking.
- February 11, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Why we refuse integrations (for now).
No Slack, no Jira, no Notion. Every integration is a promise we'd have to keep. Maybe in V2.
- February 9, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
The Sunday-night spreadsheet.
You rebuild your week from memory in Excel. There are always 17 minutes that fall through the cracks.
- February 4, 2026·2 min read·Patrick
Time tracking is a craft, not a dashboard.
Carpenters, writers, and developers don't track time the same way. Most software pretends they do. We're trying to remember they don't.
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