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Idea to improve accuracy at idle time

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:02:38 -0000

It occurred to me that all of the "dead time" between when you last do something and when the 2-minute idle timer kicks in could be removed simply by not logging the time between the last keyboard/mouse/window event and the expiration of the idle timer. i.e. keep track of the timestamp for the last event, then when you get to the idle timout, you use that previous timestamp when logging rather than the current time.

Also, 2 minutes seems like a long time... I hardly ever go more than 30 seconds without at least fidgiting with the mouse, even when reading a document. Perhaps that timer could be settable on the preferences/logging/timer settings tab.

Automatic PROXY ON / OFF resolution

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:58:27 -0000

I use RescueTime on my notebook - both at home and work. In corporate network I have to use proxy, of course at home not.

RescueTime data collector should automatically detect lack of proxy or at least try to send updates using proxy and directly (without proxy), if proxy was not found. That would save me a switching proxy on and off when I'm at work / home.

Allow users to download CSV aka spreadsheet and reupload to you

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:55:44 -0000

See my previous post "Need better way to delete erroneous tags and favorite tags"

Can you allow users to download a spreadsheet/csv file with three columns.
App/website (or however you are recording it at finest level of detail)
Tag (or tags)
Classification (only to make it easier for me to chose my own tags)

Note: if its simpler a separate record for each tag when an app is multiply tagged is fine.

Allow me to manipulate this off-line NOT to change App/website or classification but just to retag the apps using (say) Excel to drag tag's to multiple apps etc.

Probably a separate column where 1 means add and 2 means delete the tagging of an app

I have my apps tagged as:
AppA:tagA, tagB - AppB:tagC - appC-tagA

eg you send me:
appA tagA classA
appA tagB classA
appB tagC classA
appC tagA classB

I send back:
appA tagA classA X
appA tagK classA
appB tagC classA X
appC tagL classB

result after you update is:
AppA:tagB,tagK - AppB:<no> - appC-tagA,tagL

ie. don't touch app-tag combos I don't send back and make requested additions/deletions.

You mentioned in a separate post that XML could "somehow" be acquired by users. If that's a lot easier for you then I could probably generate a syntactically correct XML file to cover above but IMO using CSV would be a lot easier for most

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re-enable logging after unlocking system

Mon, 19 May 2008 19:14:04 -0000

Currently when a computer is locked, rescuetime stops logging (as expected).. But when coming back from unlocking the computer, rescuetime doesn't resume logging; it requires specifically re-enabling logging from the user.. Is there a setting to automatically re-enable the system, or is the manual method the only way??

using rescue time in 2 computers with different stats

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:47:59 -0000

hi
is there a way to use rescue time in 2 differente computers with the same email but with diferent information, in case 2 people using the computer at the same time?

tracking of "project management" web apps

Sun, 11 May 2008 07:47:07 -0000

i use a number of web apps (basecamp, assembla, sharepoint) to manage my projects. it is not enough to summarize that i spent 2 hours on Assembla, because I was working on 3 different projects during that time. There should be a way to specify RegEx against the URL. This will allow me to tag "www.mywebapp.com/ProjectA/..." separately from ".../ProjectB"

Defined timeframes for tags and auto tagging.

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:42:33 -0000

Allow tags to have timeframes attached to them. IE: between 8am and 4pm on Monday through Friday the 'work' tag is automatically appended to all applications (user defined).

Why is RescueTime using 98% CPU time?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:27:51 -0000

I work from home as a Customer Service Rep for a major credit card company. I use the PC exclusively for that 6-8 hrs/day 5 days/week. I just began using RescueTime this week,and today, about 1200local my RescueTime cpu usage went to 98%, severely impacting my ability to do my job. Right now, it is varying between 70% and 90%. Reported by Windows Task Manager. I will have to remove RT if i cannot resolve this issue.

Avant Browser

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:52:48 -0000

How can I get web page level stats on Avant Browser? Why wont it work with Avant if Avant essentially registers like Internet Explorer?

Portable USB version of RescueTime Data Collector ??

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:30:40 -0000

Hi,

I use 2 different PCS and have a complete portable apps suite on my USB drive, ( courtesy http://portableapps.com/ ) so that my programs and settings go with me whereever I go !!!! ..
It would be great to have a portable version of the RescueTime Data Collector .. with everything ( settings, exe , logs ) at a single location..

- Mithun

RescueTime underreports the time I spend on full window applications such as games and movies.

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:47:46 -0000

I played a two hour game of Age of Empires yesterday, and it registered as 10 minutes. When I watch movies, RescueTime records maybe 5 minutes for each hour I watch.

I'm running the latest version on Windows XP.

Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:58:52 -0000

No way to report things like watching movies, listening to audio...for instance:

Sometimes I will watch a movie on my computer. Currently it says I have spent 20 seconds in windows media player. The movie was 2 hours.

Sometimes I will listen to audio lectures online such as from the MIT website. It doesn't report but a couple of seconds here.

I know this is due to the program reporting that I am inactive so that it doesn't record time I may spend away from the computer, however is there not a way to have it record time regardless in case I want to capture the time that I spend doing these things also?

Starting over without deleting my account

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:59:51 -0000

How do I start over without deleting my account?

I want to erase all of my data, but I don't want to delete my account.

Rescuetime uses 99% of CPU

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:31:34 -0000

Fresh install of rescuetime, current version as of today. Reboot laptop.

This shoite piece of crap called software sucks up 99% of the cpu and makes the system about as fast as a feather falling through treacle.

BEWARE- DON't INSTALL THIS LOAD OF BOLLOCKS

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

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:03:54 -0000

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.

Windows Data Collector Update Published - 0.9.6

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:38:09 -0000

We've just published a update to the Windows Data Collector.

0.9.7.21 - 2007/12/05
Bugs Fixed

* There should be NO MORE multiple end times for records. If you notice any log entries with more than one end_time, please let team@rescuetime.com know.
* RescueTime will now recognize when a user has locked the machine (Windows-L) or CTRL-ALT-DEL "Lock Computer" and immediately stop logging time.
* Fixed spelling in the CTRL-ALT wording on the Basic tab
* Fixed issue with missing time when Internet Explorer was not able to resolve URLs.

New Features

* The debug log now contains the name of the log file that is being sent to the Web Service. This should help in tracking down problems since users will be able to quickly identify the log file

Maxthon support?

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:41:40 -0000

Just wanted to add another browser to your list. I currently use Maxthon, and it'd be great to log what sites I visit using it. In fact, Maxthon is my "work" browser and Firefox is my "fun" browser, so the Maxthon data would actually be more useful for me.

Thanks!

Flock support?

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:34:39 -0000

The data does not show Flock usage at all.
Config: Flock 1.0.1, Windows XP

Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:58:31 -0000

The first couple of weeks the app was sending information just fine.

For about a week now there hasn't been any activity logged

The account verification works fine but when i send update i get the error: "arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow"

i am using vista business and i have installed the latest version

Using multiple computers - machine tagging

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:18:57 -0000

I would like to recommend a feature. I want to be able to set a tag for a machine and have all data from that machine tagged accordingly. This would help me filter work from personal time.