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JackH replied on July 03, 2008 19:29 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

I like this idea. I'm concerned about sending the full website/application titles to RescueMe and I want to be able to change the locally. For example I want to delete usernames from the page title just leaving the information that I've been to facebook or twitter. And I want to send that I used OpenOffice, but I don't want every document title to be sent. (I also want to send domain names instead of full URLs)

xurizaemon replied on June 28, 2008 13:50 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

@lunde: genius. thanks. nice to see an OSS fix for software that isn't OSS yet :)

@rescuetime: how long before you open-source and let us add features like this for you?

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.

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

Matt replied on May 11, 2008 21:10 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

Are we any closer to release on this. I consider this critical to effective use of rescuetime

alunde replied on April 09, 2008 05:08 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

I've been working on accomplishing this with a custom proxy server. Basically I funnel the request through it and modify the app_name accordingly. Here are a couple of the regexps I use.

This is a snippet of PHP from my proxy server.

case "phped":
$preg_match_str = "@^\'(.+)\+-\+(.+)\+-\+.+\'$@";
preg_match($preg_match_str, $this_val, $matches);
$app = $matches[1];
print("app:" . $app . ":\n");
$project = $matches[2];
print("project:" . $project . ":\n");
break;
....
This works for strings like 'phped+-+Project+-+blahblah'

This would be similar to the VisualStudio example above.

-Andrew

Mike Koss replied on April 08, 2008 21:54 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

I would love to set up more specific rules - I think you could use keywords in window titles to infer tags. E.g., when I'm working in Google Docs, you could look for the project name in the title of the document to derive which tag I want to apply to that work.

Alternately, an on-screen widget that lets me declare that I am working on one project or another in real time.

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KevinInStLouisronan further replied on March 06, 2008 19:29 to the question "Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?" in RescueTime:

I think this may apply - I use MS Access with 2 Databases OldWork & NewWork - -- one of my employees uses a similar product; "Personal Time Manager http://ptm.sourceforge.net/ Has a PopUp that requests her to confirm the tag/category she is working on every ? 5-30min (She can choose the interval) This allows her when working in Access-OldWork she can tag part with Payroll and part with CustomerService etc. Also if Idle or away she can later come back to the computer and enter Lunch or Warehouse etc. ---- the best of both worlds would be to allow us to choose which Apps need the PopUp (like Access, Excel etc and which do not need the PopUps. - Love your Product. Kevin