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Rescue Time doesnt open!! On windows I click on the Rescue time icon and the clock thing appears on the cursor for a couple of seconds and then nothing happens, nothing opens, time rescue just doesnt open....what is going on?
Thnaks in advance.

All of the tags in the "time spent" graph are not available. I have close to 30 tags, but only 7 or 8 show up in the "slice" dropdown box. Any ideas on what may be wrong?

I was wondering FF3 using ca. 40-50% of CPU (that means a whole core!) the whole time in the last days. I searched for the origin of this phenomenon and now I found it:

As long as I have rescuetime.com in one of my tabs (doesn't matter if this tab is active or even if I use FF3 at the moment or having it run in the background) the CPU usage is that high! As soon as I close the tab the usage by FF3 rapidly goes down to 5-10% when using it and ca. 2% when using another program and having FF3 running in the background.

So how can it be, that only having rescuetime in a tab causes such a high CPU usage? I mean I don't even use it. I can have google opened in 50 tabs and it does not use any CPU usage. Why does rescuetime.com?

Python date error not allowing uploading of data There was an unexpected error, some data may have been lost. year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900

Here's the entire error message

2008-07-19 15:57:44
Sending file: ~/Library/RescueTime/Logs/Pending/rt_20080719-154956.yml
2008-07-19 15:57:44
<hash><total-records>0</total-records><error>There was an unexpected error, some data may have been lost. year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/var/www/django/api/releases/20080708001327/rescueapi/../rescueapi/user_logs/views.py", line 53, in create
user.save()
File "/opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 212, in save
db_values = [f.get_db_prep_save(f.pre_save(self, False)) for f in non_pks]
File "/opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 494, in get_db_prep_save
value = value.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
ValueError: year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900
</error></hash>

Seems the problem with the high CPU load while viewing the dashboard is back with Firefox 3.
I installed the final version of Firefox 3 today and now the cpu usage rises again to nearly 100% when viewing the dashboard.
Flash version is 9.0.124 and OS is Windows XP.

List view and App/Site detail view still work fine.

The Productivity Measure is not meaningful in its current form. Currently the Productivity Measure, as I understand it, expresses what percentile the user is in productivity compared with all RT users. However, this percentile is a function of the arbitrary productivity values that I assign to my tags. Furthermore, if my average productivity percentile is in the 90s the day-to-day variation is quite small and hard to observe.

Instead, I suggest making the producitvity a cardinal measure (or at least provide that option). For example, it could simply be the time of an activity times the productivity of that activity. This way, I can compare my productivity across units of time (days, weeks, months) in a meaningful way (eg. I could say if I was twice as productive one week versus another). In the current form there is little meaningful way to compare productivity levels, one can only rank order them.

Lastly, I would suggest making the productivity of an activity the sum of the tag productivities, and not the average. This will make it easy to both assign a given productivity level to a particular activity and to create a system of tags to visualize how one spends one's time. For example, if I want to create a super-set tag of all my "work" activities, it will change my productivity scores no matter what value I set the super-set productivity at. It would be better if one could tag activities without necessarily changing their productivity.

A similar cardinal measure for Efficiency would also be useful (eg. productivity/time on computer).

If you are concerned about disturbing the current system, them you could implement these suggestions as options for advanced users.

I look forward to your comments.

Productivity and Efficiency graphs have a bug. They are showing 12 AM for all hours till now. The rest is ok. I'll send you a screenshot with it.

I installed Firefox 3 recently the day it was released. It was very stable. I tried RescueTime for the first time a few days after that. I noticed that FF3 started to crash randomly all the time. It even crashed while running in safe mode. Not able to figure out what was causing this, I suspected RescueTime and turned it off. I noticed that FF3 works fine when RT is turned off. This could be a bug with RecueTime. Please have a look at this bug, since it means that I won't try RT until it's fixed.

I'm running FF3 and RescueTime on WinXP (with all recent Service Packs installed). I've noticed this crashing behaviour on both my work PC and laptop, both of which are running the same mix of software.

I have some Error 2410 and Error 2420 in the last hours. It seems to be independent from URLs or programs.

"18.07.2008 20:02:50
Error 2410: Beim Aufruf einer COM-Komponente wurde ein HRESULT E_FAIL-Fehler zurückgegeben."

which means: "When requesting a COM-component a HRESULT E_FAIL-failure was put out."

In some seconds there are up to twenty-five of these messages.

That seems to happen at nearly every tab change (but not everytime). In most cases it was a new site or even an reload

It's me again ;)

There is a problem with using local files in the browser. I use the FF3-AddOn UpdateTracker which saves whole sites on the hard disc (to check for changes) and uses a local path for that when displaying the data in FF3. But Rescuetime has a problem with that and assigns this time to another site (maybe the last one used before). Now I have up to 40 minutes of a site I just visited for 2 minutes or so. I saw what's the problem by looking what the debug window says. Everytime I clicked on a tab with a local path it logged the other URL.

I have the following problem:
I used a site (a homepage; between 9pm and 11pm) which says for today (24m 57s) total. But when I click on it to reach the "App / Site Details" the graph (18m 54s) shows for 9pm and (24m 53s) for 10 pm. So the total would be (43m 47s). But I think 24m 57s must be the right time and because I used that site while the hour changed (and without a break), the 10pm graph seems to show the total time, not only how long it was used within this hour. Could that be?

I also have a screen of that where you can see the two bars (one up to 18.75, one up to 25) and on the same screen the total of 24m 57s.

supplement:
This also leads to depended tags showing the wrong overall time:
I tagged the site as "video" and "fun" and now "video time" is (1h 10m), but I used the three depending apps/sites for only (24m 57s) + (16m 57s) + (10m 12s) = (52m 6s), so there also is a difference.
And "fun" (1h 16m), but the 8 depending sites/apps only add up to (49m Xs).

So there is something wrong...

Since tonight the homepage (Dashboard etc. after login) is broken. Seems to be a problem with CSS? I only see the text, no background graphics.

I'm just using RescueTime for 2,5 hours and it worked well but since half and hour or so, it seems that it does not not add further URLs or programs. I have 43 entries now, but it does not add further ones? Of course I tried to update manually, the time counter goes up, but no new entries appear in the list.

The "Today" at my dashboard and also the calendar still show Monday although it is Tuesday in Germany. So this does not orientate on the location date but maybe on server date.

This leads to a total time of 5h 25m total and 4h 50m today (although there are 0:35 minutes transfered for Tuesday until now).

At the "Time Spent" chart at "This Week" it is right. This one shows the right times for Monday and Tuesday. But not on the "Today" charts.

When I was away from my computer, time was logged against an open application - Adium. I was in meetings for 3 hours, so 3 hours of time was logged as chat.

I just signed up yesterday and installed RescueTime on my MacBook Pro. It was late in the day, and it completed 1 update before I shut down. This morning I installed the data collector in my XP VMWare Fusion install as well. I now get Timed Out errors in both OSes.

It worked on the Mac side yesterday, but doesn't work on either OS this morning. Is there a server issue? Or is it my computer?

The RSS feed seems to be empty. it says:
Tags object goal: > 0.5 hours per day
status: not met (no time)

I have 5 or 6 goals, and they were showing up, but aren't anymore

I think this app, which I'm starting to like a lot, would benefit greatly if it tracked the document that each app is working on. instead of just the app.

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?

I tried to download and install RescueTime and it said I had to have .NET Framework 2.0. I clicked OK to download .NET Framework 2.0 and got an error that it could not find the server at Microsoft. I have gone directly to the MS download site with the same results on several days at differing times. What's going on? Does my system have a bug/virus which is preventing this download? I am running Windows XP Professional.