Time Reconstructor

Paste the fragments of your day — calendar, sent emails, notes. Get billable time entries rebuilt with confidence flags and the source fragments that back each one.

Good at:
Rebuilding billable time you forgot to log, from calendar events, sent emails, and scattered notes.
Not for:
Polishing entries you already have — use Billing Narrative Polisher for that.

Workflow assistance only. Not legal advice. Review every entry before invoicing. Never bill low-confidence entries without verification.

Time reconstruction is usually where lawyers hesitate most: you want to paste an unvarnished calendar export and your sent mail, but those contain every client’s name. The reconstructor doesn’t need them. Replace client and matter names with [CLIENT A], [MATTER B], etc. — the duration math, confidence scoring, and narrative generation all still work, and you can find-and-replace back to real names in your billing software. The Redactor automates the substitution if you have a lot to process.

Paste calendar events, sent email subjects, meeting notes — in any order. Use [CLIENT A]/[MATTER B] placeholders in place of real names.

Try an example:

Calendar export, sent emails, time log. PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, text. Up to 3 files, 10 MB each.

Used only to show total billable value in the result.

Reconstructed time entries will appear here once the tool runs.

Questions people ask first

What does Time Reconstructor do?

Rebuilds billable time entries from the fragments of your day — calendar events, sent emails, scattered notes — when you forgot to log time as you went. Each rebuilt entry has a confidence flag and points back to the source fragments that justify it.

Will it invent time I didn't work?

No. The reconstruction is bounded by the fragments you give it. If your calendar shows a 30-minute block and your sent mail shows you wrote one email during that window, the entry reflects that — it doesn't extend the time beyond what the source shows. Entries that are guesses are flagged as “low confidence — verify before billing.”

What fragments work best?

Calendar export, sent-mail subject lines and timestamps, and your written notes from the day. You don't need email bodies — subject lines plus the calendar context is usually enough. Phone-call logs help when you have them.

What about non-billable time?

The tool separates billable from non-billable based on matter context. Personal calendar events, internal meetings, marketing time — those get categorised as non-billable. Review the categorisation before billing; misclassification is the most common error.

How far back can I reconstruct?

Reasonably reliably for the last 7–14 days. Beyond that, your memory of the context degrades and the source fragments stop carrying enough information. For 90-day reconstructions across an entire practice, the Billing Recovery Sprint (currently on the waitlist) is the right tool — it's the same logic on a much wider input window.