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Alec_Burgess started following the question "Option to not record sites/apps visited for less than t seconds." in RescueTime.
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Tony replied on February 29, 2008 17:48 to the question "Option to not record sites/apps visited for less than t seconds." in RescueTime:
That's an interesting idea and would certainly reduce the "noise". I think there are some interesting features we can do down the road relating to flow-- so I don't want to lose that data (tho as you say-- it could be user-toggled). For example, clicking a link on Reddit to go to look at a LOLcat for 4 seconds is not significant and could be lumped into Reddit. But alt-tabbing to an IM window for 4 seconds might be a significant event in terms of being "in the flow".
We shall ponder-- thanks for the great suggestion! -
TechnoGuyRob started following the idea "More granularity for IM clients" in RescueTime.
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TechnoGuyRob asked a question in RescueTime on February 29, 2008 02:06:
Option to not record sites/apps visited for less than t seconds.Hi! I think you should be able to give a time threshold for recording data. For example, if you quickly alt tab to the Windows calculator to make a calculation, and then alt-tab, then if you spend less than a certain amount of time (say, 20 seconds--this should be set by the user, either globally, or for each application/site) in the calculator, it should just dump that time into the old app. For example, I might be writing something in Word and tag it as Work, but if I quickly alt-tab for a few seconds, RescueTime should pretend I was in Word the whole time (unless I set my global "time to record" to 0).
So, to recap:
Let's say I'm goofing off and am on Reddit, and I click a click, look at it, and close it. I might be on it for four seconds, but I don't want my history clouded (and I don't want to manually delete it), so instead I have a setting that says "it takes 10 seconds of using an app/site before that site/app will be recorded." Additionally, there should be a setting that says "For the previous 'time-to-record' setting, record that time used in the previous app/site." So for example, if I went off Reddit for a few seconds and decided the site is not interesting, then having "Yes" marked for that second option would put those couple of seconds into Reddit's time, rather than adding a whole new untagged site that I've been on for four seconds.
Thanks!
