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Martin Cleaver replied on August 30, 2008 19:26 to the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

http://www.productiveflourishing.com/... has a useful analysis of RescueTime, including mentioning some things the team could do to improve it. http://jawmaster.wordpress.com/2008/0... underlines some other limitations.

I look forward to RescueTime being a tracker as well as a productivity saver.

I'll leave it running, but its insufficient in itself to not need something else to capture the documents in use.

Slife labs have an application. I'll try that next.

Martin Cleaver replied on August 30, 2008 18:13 to the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

Rescue Time is a useful app alright, but it is quite a limitation to not recall the title of the application (thus store the document I was working on).

This is the same request for http://getsatisfaction.com/rescuetime... (presently 26 votes) and http://getsatisfaction.com/rescuetime... (17 votes).

Also, there's no timeline, so I can't scroll through the day. Timesnapper was much more useful in that regard, but I can't use it as there's no Mac version.

Chris replied on August 26, 2008 15:05 to the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

I've only just started using RescueTime, and it's very cool - I'll keep using it. I'm amazed that an app like this is free. It will be made exponentially cooler when I can track individual docs. Thanks!

A comment on the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

Tragically, this got delayed-- we've been barraged by by users who are signing up (who don't seem to think we're ENTIRELY useless... :-) ), so we've been focusing on scaling. This is high on our list, though-- so stay tuned. – Tony, on August 18, 2008 15:44

Timo replied on August 18, 2008 09:27 to the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

> Tony, Official Rep, replied 5 months ago
> Righto-- this is a great idea (it'd be optional, of course) and one of our
> top requested features. It will happen with the next month or two
> (hopefully).

Sooo, is this feature in now? I can't seem to find it, and RescueTime is quite useless for me if I only see "Visual Studio" without any indication on what project I have been working on.

BAZ replied on August 11, 2008 18:20 to the idea "distiguish between folders and files, not just apps!" in RescueTime:

I've just signed up for RescueTime and this is the first thing I'm looking for - how to distinguish what projects - by File Folder, tag, Filename --something! A lot of us spend most of our time in MS Office Apps (imagine that!) and tracking by installed application is of little value to seeing how time is really being used.
As this thread has been going on for nearly a year, I was hoping to see an ETA in the near future. (it's 8/11/08 today) Are we getting close?

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".)

A comment on the idea "distiguish between folders and files, not just apps!" in RescueTime:

Positive is good. Plus, Morten misspelled "lose". :-P This is officially our most requested feature. We're doing some improvements on the groups/biz offering right now and doing some infrastructure improvements (to keep our servers from exploding due to growth)... After that, files/folders it is! – Tony, on May 07, 2008 21:32

jaapstronks replied on May 07, 2008 21:29 to the idea "distiguish between folders and files, not just apps!" in RescueTime:

I'd like to phrase it more positively than Morten: implement this and I want to give you money.

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