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JackH started following the idea "It could be convenient to see for how long I was using the current window" in RescueTime.

ancechu1 replied on July 03, 2008 11:30 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime:

I'm in the same situation. I work on Linux using Netbeans, Thinking Rock and SQuirreLSQLClient, all this applications appears as java-lang-thread.

Tsvi started following the idea "It could be convenient to see for how long I was using the current window" in RescueTime.

konryd replied on May 13, 2008 18:22 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

_Any_ plug-in system would do. Do you have any *specific* plans for it?

Rebecca Beltran started following the idea "It could be convenient to see for how long I was using the current window" in RescueTime.

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EmGeneva replied on May 01, 2008 16:24 to the idea "It could be convenient to see for how long I was using the current window" in RescueTime:

I like this idea too, infact that is what i was looking for when i stumbled across this application, and I'm surprised it doesn't do it now...

EmGeneva started following the idea "It could be convenient to see for how long I was using the current window" in RescueTime.

winkler1 replied on March 10, 2008 18:50 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime:

On a more general tip - when do you go deep (window title/contents), vs application name? It seems like you only go deep for web browsers. Time spent in Windows Explorer could be anything.. (tough problems here)

Adrian Smith replied on March 05, 2008 09:15 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?" in RescueTime:

I had the very same problem until I cam across Launch4j (http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/). It's a great tool and means that you can give all you java applications a custom process name, i.e. no more java.exe/javaw.exe.

The thing to remember is to tick the "Custom process name" tickbox on the first screen (I use version 2.1.5).

Here's the file I used to create jedit.exe...

<launch4jconfig>
<dontwrapjar>false</dontwrapjar>
<headertype>0</headertype>
<jar>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar</jar>
<outfile>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.exe</outfile>
<errtitle></errtitle>
<jarargs></jarargs>
<chdir></chdir>
<customprocname>true</customprocname>
<stayalive>false</stayalive>
<icon>C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.ico</icon>
<jre>
<path>C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_04</path>
<minversion></minversion>
<maxversion></maxversion>
<initialheapsize>64</initialheapsize>
<maxheapsize>192</maxheapsize>
<args></args>
</jre>
</launch4jconfig>

Jan replied on January 22, 2008 22:04 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

Looking forward to it. I'm in the same situation as nickdjones and I agree that for my and my coworkers it is not granular enough. But hoping for this feature, shud be optional, to be deployed as soon as possible.

nickdjones replied on January 15, 2008 02:45 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

great news! This would work for me in categorising my Outlook based activity. As a programme manager, that (and web browser based applications) constitutes 90% of my work! Until that is in place, tagging doesn't work for me, as it isn't granular enough. hmm, i'll make this as useful too while I'm here.

Tony replied on January 12, 2008 18:53 to the idea "It could be convenient to see for how long I was using the current window" in RescueTime:

Oooh-- that's really interesting, I LOVE that idea. It's kinda hard with how things are set up right now, but I'm definitely adding it to our list!

Alexander shared an idea in RescueTime on January 03, 2008 16:03:

It could be convenient to see for how long I was using the current window

I'd like to see how much time I've spent working with the current application. (In case I want to spend only so much time). Maybe this information can be shown in a hint label for RescueTime in task bar? Thanks.

Alexander replied on January 03, 2008 04:24 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

I know it's possible to get a hold of the window title bar information for a window. Often times it has some information that can be used to differentiate between tasks and projects. Maybe the first order approximation would be the ability to have matching strings for the window captions (TimeSnipper uses this approach).

In my case I store documents related to different projects in different directories. Ideally it would be nice if RescueTime could see what the title of a document is:

Proposal.odt - OpenOffice.org Writer

And then it would know that Proposal.odt is under University directory (by scanning directories) and this directory is tagged as belonging to a certain project. This approach does not require plug-ins, but there are could be issues with similar file names and requirement to scan directories periodically.

zorkerman replied on October 16, 2007 20:45 to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

I agree, this might be kind of hokey, but eclipse gets a file lock on a [workspacedirectory]/.metadata/.lock. (At least in windows). That could be the key to eclipse anyway.

Alexander started following the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime.

Joe, an employee of RescueTime, replied on September 26, 2007 16:20 to the problem "Can I get RescueTime to differentiate between Java apps?":

This is something I have been looking into for a while. I have added it to the issues list and we will work towards having a solution for this...

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