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Is it sad that I looked at my keyboard and said "There is no letter between r and t."? – Jeffrey Hulten, on May 24, 2008 19:04

I think it's a great feature to add....would solve us all the headache of managing time on multiple pcs...

This is exactly what I do as well. I will spend most of my day RDP-ing to my work laptop. It would be quite handy to be able to use RescueTime in this way. Right now it just tells me I've used MS Terminal Services a lot! – JD, on May 18, 2008 12:45

Any luck so far with the Caffeine integration? It'll be great to have one place where I can click to start working, and click again to stop.

Alternatively an option in the RescueTime menu would be great too (I'm on a Mac).

Yes - I'd really like this feature - additionally I often access one computer from the other over extended periods of time, using some remote desking software.

Would it be possible to add a feature to ignore certain apps? That way when i am access machine B from machine A i don't get two time periods being recorded for different machines.

This is a great software and my first idea what just popped up in my mind was the same: I would like to deploy this software for all the machines what I'm using for work, personal, etc. Please add machine tagging! :) It sounds easy to do! :)

I have resisted until now. Here is my 2 cents worth.

The more manual intervention the more you increase the likelyhood of skewing the data.

Kwirk said 5 months ago that we need more than 2 minutes to idle becasue "i spend too much time talking tomy co-workers". Is that a good thing or a bad thing. Sometimes I brainstorm with a co-worker and that is productive but other times we're talking sports or politics.

If you lengthen the timeout I can take a stroll or a chat knowing the last app is recording my inactivity.

If you ask me if I was productive when i resume I will always say "of course I was!"

With extended phone calls, co-workers, sidewalk business (you know that other employee who sits onthe corner of your desk for what seems like forever) and other interruptions I would have to answer "what were you doing" dozens of times per day and would give up on the app.

I'd rather keep it simple and low maintenance.

I personally maintain that I do 90% of my work on the computer. If that is true, then I should expect to capture only 90% of my workday on the computer. If my work is 100% computer driven then any time I am not typing or mousing is unproductive time.

Ryan said a couple of days ago that waiting for a CPU-hog script to run should probably be counted as productive (though idle). yeah just keep shaking the mouse while the script grinds away does not seem like the right answer. The only similar activity I do is periodically unarchive a chunk of Outlook mail. While this ties up Outlook, I can still do other stuff so I use another APP while I am waiting. But if the APP is using 90% of CPU time I might as well leave the room. . . can we detect idle and tap into task manager to detect if an app other than "system idle" is using a big chunk of CPU time?

Finally, I would like to be able to log large chunks of time like meetings and training. Tapping into Outlook and other calendars may have some merit.