Tony's dashboard

Sorry for the delay. Hrm-- if you have a link, I could probably help better. If you put it in a container div or cell that is a fixed width, it shouldn't matter.

I love this idea-- challenging on the UI front, though. Regex is not exactly user friendly for less geeky folks than you and I! :-) We are definitely working hard on project/file/directory level stuff.

It leaves the archived log files there for just such an event. You can overwrite with no difficulty. In the future, we'll probably have a checkbox on the uninstall process to allow people to remove all traces.

Not yet, but that's high on our list for our business customers.

Depending on your resources, it'd be easy to grab the data in XML format-- all of the graphs in RescueTime are XML powered.

Ha! I should have looked into this a little further. Thanks Tony

By default, ctrl-alt-L turns RescueTime on and off. You can turn this off or change the keyboard shortcut to a different key. Just open the app and adjust the "logging HotKey" setting!

You have whitelists, why not blacklists as well - just a list of sites you want to specifically exclude - I'm not sure what you mean about the Ignore List - I don't see anything in the prefs about an ignore list.

tvidotto, thank you for the log files, I will look through them to see if I can determine what it going on.

I'll let you know what I find.

Hi Angus,
I run Ubuntu on my Macbook, it works great and I can either boot directly into it or start it inside VMWare Fusion. Anyway, thanks for all the work you put into this! I'd be happy to take over maintaining the project for you, my launchpad profile is https://launchpad.net/~statik/

Well, I've got some bad news; my new Macbook arrived last week, and after several days with it I've had no urge to install Ubuntu on it. So, I'm going to be abandoning this project. If there is anyone who is interested in taking over, respond here and I'll see about moving the stuff on Launchpad over to you. I'm going to be on vacation and offline for the next few days, but please respond if you are interested.
Thanks a bunch to all the people who contributed code or time, and also to everyone who's found the project useful in some way.

tvidotto, is it possible that you could send me the log files for the time frame that your system showed activity when you weren't at your computer?

If so, please send the log files to team@rescuetime.com - you can find the log files at: Macintosh HD:[username]:Library:RescueTime:Logs:Uploaded

Thank you!

not a particular program

i got those 3 or 4 hours of stats in a site (mercadolivre.com.br) in finder and in system preferences

and im using an infrared mouse, but it isnt getting any moving information cause my monitor keeps in sleep all the night

any idea what it can be?

thanks

RescueTime should idle out in 2minutes. Is there a particular application over-reporting? It's possible there's an app on your machine that's blocking the idle time somehow.

We've also seen that laser mice on certain surfaces can result in your computer thinking that your mouse is constantly moving a little bit (weird, eh?).

Well, the good news is that no one has EVER lost their data in RescueTime like that. Things to check:

1) Can you make sure that you're looking at the right year? We need better messages-- sometimes a misclick can land you in 2007, where there is obviously no data.

2) Open RescueTime on your computer (the data collector) and make sure you have a correct username and password in it. If you haven't it may take a while for the data to move up-- so once you get your new password in there it should push all the data up to your account.

3) Once you confirm username and password are working, try clicking the advanced tab and hit the "send data now" button there. Again, this might take a while if RT hasn't been communicating lately-- it might even appear to freeze your machine for a minute or so.

If these don't fix it for you, drop us a line with your account email addy at team@rescuetime.com and we'll dig in to see what we can learn!

The tracking of "writing email" vs. "working on other things in MS Word" option would be hugely helpful. If I'm writing a paper, it's being productive; but email, not so! :) It would be a huge boon to actually know how much time I'm spending writing emails. Many thanks! – Emma, 2 days ago

Well, the good news is that no one has EVER lost their data in RescueTime like that. Things to check:

1) Can you make sure that you're looking at the right year? We need better messages-- sometimes a misclick can land you in 2007, where there is obviously no data.

2) Open RescueTime on your computer (the data collector) and make sure you have the new password there. If you haven't it may take a while for the data to move up-- so once you get your new password in there it should push all the data up to your account.

If these don't fix it for you, drop us a line with your account email addy at team@rescuetime.com and we'll dig in to see what we can learn!

Thanks; I'm looking forward to features making it possible to compare myself to people with related jobs. Because I have not been very productive these last few days, but since all of my work is being done at this computer, working for 4 hours (instead of 8) makes me more productive than almost everybody else, while in reality, I am not.

I must add, though, that the productivity measurement is biased by design. That's because the -2 to 2 scale doesn't match the nature of productivity.

Here's why: one must actively tag applications / sites and grade these tags in order to capture one's productivity. The default value of a tag is 0. But what is that, really? When I'm working, I'm using applications graded as 2. But what is 0 compared to 2? 0 is 'nothing', but it's not being idle. It's being unproductive. But what is -2, then?

In short, -2 to 2 doesn't make sense. It's a dimension too many. Watching YouTube is the same as being idle. But there shouldn't be something that's even more unproductive than being idle (or watching YouTube). That would only make sense if time could be destroyed: a score of 1 for reading a textbook to learn French, 0 for being idle, -1 for playing a mind-numbing game that makes me instantly forget the French words I just learned. But that usually doesn't happen.

So, I think tags should be graded from 0 to someting. Perhaps 0 to 1, you're working or you're not working.

But still: not everyone grades their tags. I think, many are tracking applications, or sets of websites, I suspect. It's a great system to only track how many minutes you've spent watching YouTube or using Microsoft Office applications, without the need to rank applications on the productivity scale. So, if people don't bother to actively grade their tags, their productivity is rated as being (close to) zero, making even non-productive people who bother to grade their tags (since they ARE interested in being more productive) seem more productive than they really are. Yes, that's likely: people with productivity problems use this software for tracking especially that; they are unjustly compared to other productive people who are not interested in grading their tags.

Or do you only measure people who have graded tags? Still, many of those could use the scale in unintended ways that make sense for them personally, but which unintentionally makes the aggregation of data impure. Because, if I'm at 98 with only a 4 hours of productive work, the average must be between 2 or 3, tops. If so, I don't think the aggregated productivity average holds much meaning. I wish you good luck with your efforts to make the comparison more meaningful, good to hear you're working on that!

For now, productivity and efficiency scores are based on the RT population as a whole... So, roughly speaking, if your score is 98 you're roughly better than 98% for that period.

We're still working a bit on the formula and, as RescueTime groups improve, it obviously gets exciting to see how you compare to your peers (rather than all RescueTimers).

The hi and lo scores refer to the little spark chart-- the last 10 weeks. So that's your hi and lo scores for that period.

Yeah funny - It defaults to April 10th!!! – Charginglux, 3 days ago