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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.

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".)

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.

Malcolm replied on April 12, 2008 21:39 to the idea "What was I doing between 10:00 and 2:00?" in RescueTime:

Mike, is there any plan for RescueTime to add this feature? Also, is it possible for me to export my "log" and then just use Excel for now?

RAL replied on April 12, 2008 20:02 to the idea "What was I doing between 10:00 and 2:00?" in RescueTime:

Mike - agreed this would be great in RescueTime. If you don't specifically need your activity timer to be web-based, there are lots of project management or activity tracking software apps around. An excellent one that is free is MapleXp Express (just Google it). It does what you want, but it isn't web based, and it doesn't have the nice graphing abilities of RescueTime, but you CAN slice and dice the information it collects in various ways, or export it to a spreadsheet for graphing.

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