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Leslie Chicoine replied on July 21, 2008 18:57 to the question "Can I use RescueTime to record non-computer tasks?" in RescueTime:

Often times I run off from my computer to work on a white board, or go to a meeting. It would be awesome if there was a simple way for me to tell rescue time what I'm doing next.



Maybe even a simple entry field
"Starting now (and until I get back) I'm working on [text field]"
Then when I get back I can adjust the time of the thing I was just doing.

shamus replied on July 09, 2008 14:18 to the question "How can I view window_title data from the dashboard?" in RescueTime:

Bump. Really need to be able to tag based on window title as well as application. I use putty to connect to local servers for work and remote servers for non-work.

As a clarification to this, it would be useful to be able to specifiy a regex for the title as often the title will be changed during a single session (e.g. for unix shell current directory).

evanosky replied on July 04, 2008 15:27 to the question "How can I view window_title data from the dashboard?" in RescueTime:

Any updates on this? I'm in need of this feature as well!

JackH started following the discussion "Passwords to RescueTime is in plain-text in user.config" in RescueTime.

JackH replied on July 03, 2008 19:29 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

I like this idea. I'm concerned about sending the full website/application titles to RescueMe and I want to be able to change the locally. For example I want to delete usernames from the page title just leaving the information that I've been to facebook or twitter. And I want to send that I used OpenOffice, but I don't want every document title to be sent. (I also want to send domain names instead of full URLs)

TravisM replied on July 01, 2008 23:02 to the idea "Manual Entries" in RescueTime:

I would also like to be able to modify existing entries. For example, time spent watching training videos in Windows Media Player gets "lost" becasue the computer looks idle to Rescue Time (becasue I don't wiggle the mouse every few seconds while I watch the video).

I think the ability to manually add/edit time recorded in RescueTime is going to be critical if you want to use RescueTime to help you complete your timesheet at the end of the week.

TravisM replied on July 01, 2008 22:58 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

My first day using RescueTime, I watched a bunch of work training videos in Windows Media Player. At the end of the day I had maybe 5 min worth of time logged, and I thought the app was broken! Now I understand what was really happening.

xurizaemon replied on June 28, 2008 13:50 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

@lunde: genius. thanks. nice to see an OSS fix for software that isn't OSS yet :)

@rescuetime: how long before you open-source and let us add features like this for you?

Allan replied on June 15, 2008 20:39 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

This problem is absolutely killing the validity of my stats, since my Mac accurately records movie watching time, the pc doesn't. A simple fix is to allow the user to change the time until logging stops (in general or even better for specific applications). This way, before watching a movie, I can change this parameter to the appropriate length of the movie (or off all together).

mickys replied on June 04, 2008 15:15 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

same problem here... using VLC ( videolan.org )

for the developers.. you might at least add an event that checks if the application ( media player / vlc / winamp / itunes ) has focus and if it does add it as tracked time running that specific application.
This seems a quick fix since the RescueTime already knows about application focus.

Also adding a "Media Applications" tab to the properties window would help, by giving the user some control over this
ex: " media applications -> add vlc / media player idle time as tracked time"

Micky

axechief replied on June 04, 2008 05:14 to the idea "Fixing the new color scheme so it is more readable" in RescueTime:

Awesome! Thanks for listening!

Jonathan replied on June 03, 2008 18:25 to the idea "I'd like to be able to set a goal for "untagged" time" in RescueTime:

I also want this feature - I'd like to be able to send myself a text message/email whenever I go over my limit of untagged time for the day. Like reefboy, I already have positive goals set up, now I want to be able to set a little bit of negative feedback as well.

xurizaemon replied on June 03, 2008 06:42 to the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

+1 for this. i used Slife for a while - even contributed some AS code for it to do this in Aquamacs - but Slife was a horrid RAM hog. if you can do this and not suck, you will be my gods.

i can easily end up with a day that is tagged "sysadmin" because i've worked in console for three clients. each terminal window has a titlebar which i could match against to know who was what, but knowing that i was using "terminal" is no real value. (i'm sure others have the same - "photoshop" or "neooffice".)

Mark replied on May 29, 2008 23:21 to the question "Can I use RescueTime to record non-computer tasks?" in RescueTime:

I spend way too much time in meetings. I would love to track my meeting time by subject.

Alec_Burgess marked one of HM's replies in RescueTime as useful. HM replied to the idea "Fixing the new color scheme so it is more readable".

HM replied on May 28, 2008 11:38 to the idea "Fixing the new color scheme so it is more readable" in RescueTime:

yes agree! much prefer the old red bars :) or perhaps some way to customise the colours...

Joe replied on May 23, 2008 15:00 to the problem "Reporting sites never vistied, and with long durations" in RescueTime:

vikramsjn,

Could you send me an email to team@rescuetime.com from the account you are using for RescueTime, I'll take a look at our incoming log files to see if I can determine why you are seeing this.

Thanks!

vikramsjn replied on May 23, 2008 07:08 to the problem "Reporting sites never vistied, and with long durations" in RescueTime:

Hello Joe,
Thanks for replying. I been under pressure so missed the update.

I do use proxy server but there is nothing running on my system on 127.0.0.1. The proxy is on different machine. I confirmed this using TcpView.

Today I ran just Firefox, and that too behind fiddler, to get log of all that is passing and coming to Firefox. To my surprise today RescueTime is reporting 15 min of visit of hindu-blog.com, but I just did not visit this site today.

I then confirmed this in Fiddler session log, and on finding word 'hindu' the only session highlighted is that of Resuetime, and the word is in HTTP response.

I only access hindu-blog.com from Google Reader, and last time I accessed it in Reader was certainly not in past two days (have confirmed this with TimeSnapper logs)

Thanks

Andrew Lunde replied on May 22, 2008 21:20 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

My proxy is working pretty well for me. If you want to try it out, send me an email at andrew at lunde dot com.

A comment on the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

I've created my own proxy server to accomplish this. If you want to try it out, please send me and email at andrew at lunde dot com. I'd be happy to see if it works for you as well. – Andrew Lunde, on May 22, 2008 21:10