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konryd replied on May 13, 2008 18:22 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

_Any_ plug-in system would do. Do you have any *specific* plans for it?

pandammonium replied on January 25, 2008 01:06 to the idea "Schedule logging on and off" in RescueTime:

I third the idea. I'd like to be able to set goals for spending less than 3 hours browsing the Web between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., say, but then be able to spend as many hours as I like between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m., but still see how much time I spend doing that then, if you see what I mean. The stats and goals would obviously have to work with this, somehow.

Jan replied on January 22, 2008 22:04 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

Looking forward to it. I'm in the same situation as nickdjones and I agree that for my and my coworkers it is not granular enough. But hoping for this feature, shud be optional, to be deployed as soon as possible.

nickdjones replied on January 15, 2008 02:45 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

great news! This would work for me in categorising my Outlook based activity. As a programme manager, that (and web browser based applications) constitutes 90% of my work! Until that is in place, tagging doesn't work for me, as it isn't granular enough. hmm, i'll make this as useful too while I'm here.

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Alexander replied on January 03, 2008 04:24 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

I know it's possible to get a hold of the window title bar information for a window. Often times it has some information that can be used to differentiate between tasks and projects. Maybe the first order approximation would be the ability to have matching strings for the window captions (TimeSnipper uses this approach).

In my case I store documents related to different projects in different directories. Ideally it would be nice if RescueTime could see what the title of a document is:

Proposal.odt - OpenOffice.org Writer

And then it would know that Proposal.odt is under University directory (by scanning directories) and this directory is tagged as belonging to a certain project. This approach does not require plug-ins, but there are could be issues with similar file names and requirement to scan directories periodically.

chong replied on November 16, 2007 21:19 to the idea "Schedule logging on and off" in RescueTime:

I second the idea and having it classified by views is not bad either. Like "WorkDays, After Hours, Weekends, Full Day" etc... I would still prefer to have it shut off at 18:00 and if I have the choice to turn it back on to measure the time.

Tony, an employee of RescueTime, replied on November 09, 2007 09:01 to the idea "Schedule logging on and off" in RescueTime:

That's a GREAT idea. We've also entertained the idea of having a default hour range for viewing purposes-- so you could (by default) only look at your work day (9-5) but also look at what you do after 5.

(sorry for the delay in response!)

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AlexF shared an idea in RescueTime on October 19, 2007 10:44:

Schedule logging on and off

Feature suggestion for the client-side app: add a schedule to start and stop logging automatically, so for instance I could set the app automatically to log from 9:00 to 18:00 Mon-Fri (but manually override if desired)

zorkerman replied on October 16, 2007 20:45 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

I agree, this might be kind of hokey, but eclipse gets a file lock on a [workspacedirectory]/.metadata/.lock. (At least in windows). That could be the key to eclipse anyway.

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AlexF shared an idea in RescueTime on October 16, 2007 15:30:

Plugins for as many apps as possible?

It would be really helpful if you could offer plugins to talk to all sorts of apps. In the same way that you pick up the current domain of Safari windows etc, could you get the window title or document name so rather than logging just "TextMate", you could log "TextMate - MyProjectName" - the same goes for IntelliJ (once you've cracked java apps), Eclipse, Photoshop, Coda, Pages etc... so you can see which project you're working on rather than just the type of activity you're engaged in...