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Eric replied on September 21, 2008 21:17 to the question "Tagging text-editor work on the extension being edited." in RescueTime:

I have the same (similar) question -- not just extension but the ability to modify tags by filename would be helpful.

For example (actual case for me), most of the time when I'm using Excel I'm editing financial spreadsheets or writing macro code and I'm being productive. However, I also use Excel to fart around with gear and builds for my World of Warcraft characters, which is not that productive. For real life.

ppgs replied on September 13, 2008 07:51 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

This should be one of the priorities in improving RescueTime.
Watching videos has become one of the major modern usage of computers.

As a non-programmer myself, it still does not sound to complicated to detect when a video is playing.

Anything moving in this direction?

A comment on the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

This sounds good to me! – wavey davie, on September 10, 2008 10:20

ancechu1 replied on July 03, 2008 11:30 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime:

I'm in the same situation. I work on Linux using Netbeans, Thinking Rock and SQuirreLSQLClient, all this applications appears as java-lang-thread.

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.

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

ppgs replied on April 17, 2008 01:39 to the idea "Set goals for percentage of time spent" in RescueTime:

Excellent idea that developpers should consider. Because we do not spend the same number of hours in front of the PC everyday, percentage of RT time is more useful than absolute number of hours.

ezuk replied on March 26, 2008 10:49 to the question "Tagging text-editor work on the extension being edited." in RescueTime:

Anyone? Bump bump

Joe replied on March 23, 2008 16:06 to the problem "Logging although it was disabled" in RescueTime:

Damn, I don't understand why this isn't working on your box. ESZ, could you email me at team@rescuetime.com - I'd like to send you a debug version of RescueTime that will give me a better idea of why hibernating is not working on your system.

Thanks you

esz replied on March 23, 2008 11:51 to the problem "Logging although it was disabled" in RescueTime:

I am sorry to say that 1.0.1.12 did not solve the problem for me.

I just tried opening powerpoint (which I did not tag previously), put the computer into hibernate for an hour, and turned it on again.

RescueTime now reports that I used powerpoint for that hour...

Joe replied on March 21, 2008 15:09 to the problem "Logging although it was disabled" in RescueTime:

I just pushed an update out yesterday to fix a hibernate issue, and I will look into why RescueTime might continue to log while "Logging disabled" is selected.

I'll let you know what I find out!

Thanks

esz replied on March 21, 2008 09:34 to the problem "Logging although it was disabled" in RescueTime:

Let me modify that statement - I just noticed for the last two hours (without going into standby or hibernate) that my activities where logged while RescueTime had "Logging disabled"...

esz replied on March 21, 2008 08:30 to the problem "Logging although it was disabled" in RescueTime:

I have the same problem, that rescueTime is logging time spent although logging is disabled AND the computer is in hibernate (turned off, ram saved to disk)

(Time spent was reported for the Thunderbird application)

RescueTime 1.0.0.46
Windows XP - 32bit - SP2
Dell XPS M1330

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