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wavey davie replied on September 05, 2008 11:40 to the idea "It would be great if RescueTime could monitor the exact Word document I'm working on" in RescueTime:

I'd like the option to tag both folders OR documents

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.

Matthew replied on August 01, 2008 12:59 to the idea "Some distractions during work are productive over the weekend." in RescueTime:

Hi,

Did you ever get round to adding views as I'd find it really useful?

xurizaemon replied on June 03, 2008 06:45 to the idea "It would be great if RescueTime could monitor the exact Word document I'm working on" in RescueTime:

+1 & matching URLs also please

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".)

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Maddy replied on May 06, 2008 10:21 to the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

Of course, there should be a selection for every app (or by pattern), if I want just the app name, just the document or both.

Ben W replied on May 05, 2008 16:31 to the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime:

I would bow down and hand over my first born for this feature. It is by far the most important feature for my work... it would also be super useful for putting together time sheets.

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Anders replied on April 09, 2008 07:25 to the idea "It would be great if RescueTime could monitor the exact Word document I'm working on" in RescueTime:

I think the idea is good for those of us writing on large documents. Then Word in general could be "Writing" (for all the letters etc.) and then the 3 big documents could then be tagged individually. I could imagine the user could mark any application for "Detailed tagging" (or any capable of revealing the file to Rescuetime if that is an issue).
An application marked for Detailed Tagging could then have an overall "writing" tag, and a list of opened documents. The documents of interest could then be tagged (especially if the are sorted by time used), and Rescuetime could also filter to only show the documents taking up more than 10% of the time.
The automation could even go one step further - Detailed Tagging could only be offered if 80% of the time is covered by less than 20% of the files (or max 10 files).
Alternatively you could enter filters (which could cover future files as well)-
Filter: \Research*\*Customer.doc - Tag: "Customer research"
but that would end up being a more complex interface. However maybe filtering could help in grouping the files found.

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Hans replied on April 06, 2008 22:00 to the idea "It would be great if RescueTime could monitor the exact Word document I'm working on" in RescueTime:

That would indeed be a lot of tagging. I used an open source program called PC fare meter (http://projecttimer.sourceforge.net/) for a while that did exactly that. One of the problems with it was that you had a lot of tagging to do. You could use regular expressions though. Once it had all the tags, it could automatically assign the time I spend writing manuals to the different projects I had going.

I stopped using the program because it had too many bugs. It had quite a few good ideas though.

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