lyasya's dashboard

Wow, fast responsive work. I'm very impressed.

Thank you!!! I really really appreciate that and I am really really happy now:)))

Your unreasonably impatient wish is my command. :-) You can now minimze graphs! Drag and drop on a grid is coming soon. – Tony, on May 20, 2008 00:16

@lyasya Um. Please understand that we are only 3 people right now getting 30-60 emails PER DAY from RescueTime users (on top of normal corrospondance from each other, potential investors, friends, family, etc.). To move the product forward, we have to prioritize responding to paying customers first and people who are experiencing bugs second. We read every email, but if it's an email that effectively says, "I would prefer if this feature did X rather than Y", we don't have the manpower to respond to many of those. I truly wish we did.

Regarding privacy, i think you misunderstood. No RescueTime user can see any other individual user's data. Period. What we will be rolling out in the future is the ability to compare to the average user. There is some additional transparency in premium groups, detailed here: http://www.rescuetime.com/product_tou...

Please understand that it is decidedly NOT helpful to send us 4 emails through various forms on our site AND post on the forum here about the same issue. – Tony, on May 20, 2008 00:11

Hey All-- just a note that we just pushed graph minimizing (which is a pre-cursor to eventually being able to drag/drop graphs around the dashboard). If categories aren't your thing, you can now minimize it.

And, for the record- it's totally okay if it's not your thing. It's a feature that's aimed squarely at people who aren't using tags because of the complexity and overhead. If you prefer the power of tags over the convenience of Categories, more power to ya.

Tony, thanks for the quick reply, and no good deed goes unpunished. The key for me is that different folk are going to use your tool for different reasons, and I certainly understnad what you are saying about (a) some folks don't tag and (b) wanting comparable categories. What I think would make it much less frustrating would be adding a hide/show for each of the graphs on the dashboard.

Even better, of course, woudl be to have the ability to pick among a set of graphs and place them into a grid; but that could wait.

And no way to get rid of them? I think that the above mentioned question has a good point - 'remove from dashboard.' Or at least manage them.
I am not a majority. And as such, I understand that you do not really care about my opinion because I have sent already 4! help requests and I am writing about categories again. Let me repeat - they are not useful! At all! Moreover, for me they really clutter my dashboard and distract from my data.
Why do I need an ability to compare people to other folks? You might need it. What if I don't want to be compared? What about your privacy policy which indicates that: "Other users can't see any of your data or personal information." Is it going to be changed?
Even though I might be a minority, but on this forum, I am not the only one who has already requested the option to manage the dashboard. – lyasya, on May 17, 2008 19:30

I agree - I think the graphs should be movable and removable. I don't find categories as useful as my own tags. – shrutishah, on May 16, 2008 20:44

I do not like the idea of categories the way it is implemented. First of all, the categories are distracting from the data that I really look at. I want a possibility either to delete this graph with categories from showing on my dashboard, or at least move it to the end of the page so that I will never see them. In my case those categories are simply bogus.
Also, I find breakdown by time of the day more helpful and this what I really liked about rescue time. Now, it is somewhere on the bottom of the page. If various feature will be added (and I do see positive externalities from this), then there should be a control feature for a user to choose which one to show.

Let me emphasize that the idea of categories is great. I do not like the implementation. Particularly the way it misrepresents my data.

Thank you very much.