Recently created topics in RescueTime about PC Data Collector

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.

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.

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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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"

I've been using RescueTime for two weeks now and am really enjoying it. I have two feature requests that I believe would double the value for anybody who uses MS Outlook.
1) Intergration to Outlook to record scheduled meetings (appointments of type Meeting or Recurring Meeting).
2) More granular recording of Outlook time (I spend about 30% of my time in Outlook it would be really valuable to understand what is spent on Tasks vs Mail etc).