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Andrew Lunde replied on June 10, 2008 03:30 to the idea "RescueTime mobile phone software" in RescueTime:

I do this with the help of another application. Unfortunately it costs some money on a monthly basis, but in my profession it's well worth it. Pop on over to http://www.airtimemanager.com/ . I translate it's time keeping messages into RescueTime messages and send them to the RT backend for inclusion with all my other time items.

Andrew Lunde replied on June 10, 2008 03:07 to the idea "Timeline mode for graphs" in RescueTime:

I've written my own proxy to capture the data that the RescueTime client gathers before it gets sent to the RescueTime back end. I shove it in my own MySQL DB and report against that. The location data is just a bluetooth proximity censor that I rigged up to detect when my cell phone is near my computer. I augment my time keeping with another application that I use to generate by billing data and the phone piece is based on hacking my own Asterisk server. It's really cool to see how your RT idle time maps against your proximity to the computer as well as the phone usage. Sometimes it's idle because you've gone to lunch. Othertimes it's idle because you're engrossed in a phone conversation. The prior you don't bill for, the latter you do. I'm funnelling all my time data to RT but the since I can't get my tags out of RT, I may have to write my own tagging engine so that I can map location/phone events to particuar clients. If you'd like to discuss the possibilities of what I'm doing, feel free to contact me at andrew at lunde dot com.

Andrew Lunde replied on June 10, 2008 00:07 to the idea "Timeline mode for graphs" in RescueTime:

I like this idea as well. Maybe something like this:

Timeline Example

Andrew Lunde started following the idea "Timeline mode for graphs" in RescueTime.

Andrew Lunde started following the idea "Timeline mode for graphs" in RescueTime.

Andrew Lunde replied on June 09, 2008 23:59 to the idea "Using RescueTime Offline??" in RescueTime:

What if you had your own server capturing your rescuetime data? Would that make sense for those security minded folks?

Andrew Lunde started following the question "How do I change an application's category?" in RescueTime.

Andrew Lunde started following the problem "Is there a way to associate different instances of an Application with unique tags?" in RescueTime.

Andrew Lunde replied on June 02, 2008 23:04 to the problem "Is there a way to associate different instances of an Application with unique tags?" in RescueTime:

Does the window title differ uniquely when you're using terminal for accessing different servers? If so, I've got a way to may them more disctictly taggable.

Andrew Lunde replied on May 22, 2008 21:27 to the idea "More slices available in Time Spent box" in RescueTime:

I'm going to give this one a hearty second! I'm sure we can't get crazy with 10 slices, but 4 or 5 would be nice.

Andrew Lunde started following the idea "More slices available in Time Spent box" in RescueTime.

Andrew Lunde started following the idea "More slices available in Time Spent box" in RescueTime.

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.

Andrew Lunde replied on May 22, 2008 21:19 to the discussion "Distinguish blocks of time on certain websites and apps" in RescueTime:

I've gotten around this by creating my own proxy that fiddles with the time information in order to make it more useful. So I get times logged like excel_clienta and excel_clientb. If you're interested in trying out my proxy, send me an email at andrew at lunde dot com.

Andrew Lunde started following the idea "Distinguish between IMing with different people (friends vs. coworkers)" in RescueTime.

Andrew Lunde started following the idea "Distinguish between IMing with different people (friends vs. coworkers)" in RescueTime.

Andrew Lunde replied on May 22, 2008 21:15 to the idea "Distinguish between IMing with different people (friends vs. coworkers)" in RescueTime:

I wanted to be able to do this as well with my programming application. I got around the problem by intercepting what the RescueTime client was sending to the server and taking some of the title information and changing the application name to be more specific. I'd get time for pidgin_husband and pidgin_colleague accounting seperately. If you want to give it a try, 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

Andrew Lunde replied on April 12, 2008 14:32 to the question "Can I use RescueTime to record non-computer tasks?" in RescueTime:

Try this. It's a little local web app that allows you to record events manually.

http://monkeyget.wordpress.com/2008/0...

Andrew Lunde replied on April 11, 2008 05:34 to the idea "Using a Proxy Server to manipulate time events." in RescueTime:

I've got my proxy running pretty good now. Since it's a prototype, all the rules are hard coded in at the moment. I have rules for:

putty : SSH client
Dreamweaver
phped : PHP IDE
explorer

The explorer rule will pull out the first folder after the "My Documents" folder.

$preg_match_str = "@^\'(.+)My\+Documents%5c(.+?)[%5c.*\'$|\'$]@";

This assumes that you create project named folders under your "My Documents" folder. If you do the proxy will rewrite the app_name to:

explorer_projectname

and you will be able to tag and track it specifically.

I'd give out my proxy's IP:Port but I'm afraid it might be overwhelmed. It's just a single threaded server so it's a bit fragile.

If anyone's interested in giving it a try, please send me an email to:

andrew at lunde dot com

and put "RescueTime Proxy: " at the start of the subject.