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

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I'm finding myself looking at RT site less and less often. – Maddy, on January 18, 2009 23:26

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.

Maddy replied on April 28, 2008 10:14 to the question "Ignoring Applications in RescueTime" in RescueTime:

Please, add Blacklist as well. So most of the stuff goes the normal way, and some specified URLs go into common "Other web-sites".
It would be close to impossible for me to specify a good whitelist, where I actually have just few exceptions.

Maddy started following the question "Ignoring Applications in RescueTime" in RescueTime.

Maddy started following the idea "Feature request: Application renaming" in RescueTime.

Maddy started following the question "websurfing: auto-group by application" in RescueTime.

Maddy started following the question "Does it track at least directory names? Tracking only application name is, from my view point, with very little use!" in RescueTime.

A comment on the question "Does it track at least directory names? Tracking only application name is, from my view point, with very little use!" in RescueTime:

I vote that all browsers and chats have also details reported. – Maddy, on April 28, 2008 10:06

A comment on the idea "Url tracking is not always needed... and please do pattern matching!" in RescueTime:

Actually this is valid for all apps: report just the name, the details, or the both.
Just for the browsers I need app name, and for chats the details. – Maddy, on April 28, 2008 10:04

Maddy replied on April 28, 2008 10:01 to the idea "Url tracking is not always needed... and please do pattern matching!" in RescueTime:

Alternatively (for the beginning) you could make 2 checkboxes in the collector for the browser apps:
- report browser name
- report URL

Default at the moment is second enabled.
And I would enable first instead for myself atm.
Someone might need both.

Maddy shared an idea in RescueTime on April 28, 2008 09:58:

Url tracking is not always needed... and please do pattern matching!

There should be a way to switch off URL tracking and sending just the browser name. E.g. when whitelist is enabled but completely empty.

Since SeaMonkey is not recognized as a browser atm, I have such a system now:
- seamonkey is for personal stuff -> reported as "seamonkey" and tagged as "personal"
- firefox is for work, has enabled whitelist which is empty -> reported as "other web-sites" and tagged as "work".

I see a problem, that when SeaMonkey support is fixed and it starts sending URL of sites visited, I can't distinguish that easily anymore between personal and work internet usage, all of them will fall into "other web sites" or as a URL independently of the browser.

The perfect would be to have pattern system. So if activity is reported as <application>:<url> I could write some patterns myself, matching just the first part or more. Such a mapper between detailed info and display string.</application>

Maddy started following the idea "Sub-tagging and selective tagging (ideal workflow)" in RescueTime.

Maddy started following the question "How I can see the filename I worked with?" in RescueTime.

Maddy shared an idea in RescueTime on April 24, 2008 11:26:

IM chats should be reported separately by window title

I'm intensively using Skype for both work and personal communication. It would be totally wrong to report all different chat windows into single tag like "work". I would expect RT to record the window title as well.

Same goes for ICQ, MSN, GTalk etc.

Maddy started following the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime.

Maddy started following the problem "RescueTime doesn't seem to be able to detect the active tab for a web browser (Safari, Firefox)" in RescueTime.

Maddy reported a problem in RescueTime on April 24, 2008 10:44:

Seamonkey is not recognized as browser

So it's reported as an application and no site details. I usually have around 100 tabs open evenly distributed between "work", "home" and "personal" topics.

Maddy started following the problem "Unknown URL in Safari 3.1 on XP" in RescueTime.

Maddy started following the problem "not the app...the document!" in RescueTime.