Time Audit Calculator

It's simply 24 minus the sum of all ten categories you entered, floored at zero — the calculator doesn't guess what that time was spent on. A large unaccounted figure usually means either genuinely free time you forgot to log against any category, or activities (like extra sleep, additional work, or time you can't quite place) that fell outside the ten buckets provided.

The calculator's three-bucket split is based on the nature of the activity, not its importance: productive covers work, learning, and exercise; necessary covers sleep, commute, housework, and self-care; and discretionary covers social media, entertainment, and family/social time because all three are chosen, elective uses of free time rather than obligations. Family time being discretionary doesn't imply it's low-value — the time wealth score actually credits it as a higher-value discretionary choice than passive screen time.

The time wealth score doesn't just measure how much discretionary time you have — it weighs how you use it. It combines an 'active ratio' (the share of your discretionary time that isn't social media or entertainment) applied to your unaccounted-plus-discretionary hours, with a separate credit for hours spent on exercise, learning, and family/social time specifically, so two people with identical discretionary hours can get very different scores depending on how passively that time is spent.

The calculator assumes some amount of passive screen leisure (social media plus TV/gaming/streaming) is normal and not worth targeting, so it only counts your combined screen time above 1 hour as reclaimable. If your total screen time is 3.5 hours, for example, only 2.5 hours are flagged as time that could realistically be redirected toward other priorities.