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Some of the applications I am using are mis/poorly categorized. For example, Thunderbird and Adium are "Comm (other)" instead of Comm (email) and Comm (instant messenger), respectively. I can't seem to find a way to change this on the application page" http://www.rescuetime.com/details/202711

Thanks,
Todd

I spend a lot of time in the Mac app MailPlane, but I don't see it listed in the app list. What should I do?

I don't think my goals are working. I'm trying to make sure I don't spend more than an hour on blogs (which to me means Google Reader) and though it tracked that I spent 12 mins on blogs today - Goals are saying "no time."

Is it possible to remove the menu bar icon.
I would like the progam to basically be invisible to all my employees

is there an iphone/ipod touch app in the works?

I like RescueTime but find it frustrating in its inability to differentiate time spent in an application procrastinating and time spent in an application productively.

As an example:
Internet - I spent the last three hours doing meaningful Internet research on too many sites to whitelist, and about an hour procrastinating on blogs, social networks, etc. Yet this is not differentiated, from what I can tell. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Furthermore, my time spent in Excel is some part my own time, some part one project, some part another project. How can I value my time if I cannot differentiate it?

Finally, this getsatisfaction.com is a horrible site for Q&A. I'm sure a lot of people have asked my question, but with no way to search or categorize the questions, it is too burdensome to read through posts!

How much unproductive time was spent trying to find a similar question?!?!

I'm using VisualStudio to develop more than one project. I would like to be able to differentiate between the work on these projects based on the current title of the VisualStudio application (VS uses the "Project name - Microsoft Visual Studio" format). This would be useful for other apps too. You already allow this for browsers - why not extend it to any application?

Maybe by providing a way for the user to specify a regular expression which will extract the project name? I know this is quite an advanced usage, but it would be really useful. And you could organize collecting and sharing of these regexes on your site, so that users could contribute.

I've just downloaded the most recent version of Rescue Time (running OS X Leopard), and now I can't hide the icon in my dock anymore. Any ideas?

Is there a way to manually log time spent on off-computer tasks, like working out or running errands? That functionality would be very useful to me. Thanks in advance!

Some sites that I visit, especially blogs, are not showing up. Most seem to be working fine, but I'd like to get those blogs included to track time spent there. can I add them manually? Or is there some setting that's preventing them from getting added?

Why is there no https access to the website with the free 1 person account? I can understand to take money for the team features, but https is a security-must-have even for the free accounts! It's very sensible data in the dashboard of every user so https can't be a payable feature in my eyes. Will you ever change this in the near future?

a) Is there a chance to see a list of your activities? What I mean is a chronological log list of your activities, so that you can see e.g.

03:30:45 -> RescueTime 23 seconds
03:31:08 -> WinAMP 119 seconds
03:33:07 -> ebay 28 seconds
03:33:35 -> facebook 10 seconds
03:33:45 -> ebay 56 seconds
03:34:41 -> .....

Something like this?

b) And maybe then have the ability to clear single lines out or change, if there was something wrong?

Hi RT Team.

I had an idea which I thought I would share. I'm using OmniFocus to manage my task. It's a very cool, GTD oriented, task management software. I'll be using some GTD terms here, so if you're not familiar with it, head over to Wikipedia :-)

It strikes me that there is a correlation between the tasks and time I spend on my machine. At least, there should be. GTD Contexts are pretty much like the tags you define. It should be possible to log my usage time under the "next action" of the given context. I will know how much time I spent on each task. Naturally, it should be easy to find when I'm working on something with is unrelated to any of my tasks and alert me (real-time alert preferred).

Anyway, just a thought.
Regards,
Zviki

in my groups area there is no add new member

i can not find the add new member to a new created group. in the help it says that is on the right side. but not button there... can anyboody help me. thank you

It would be great to get richer stats like the ones that are displayed in the RescueTime blog.
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2008/06/14...

Particularly, things like times I switched into email or IM (which I often due to procrastinate the task i'm working on). Maybe even a guess on times I've been interrupted. Also how much time I'm spending in a browser.

Keep up the good work!
anand

Let customers / investors track time spent ?

Is it possible with the team version to give a login to a customer where he can see where time of a group of people is spent?

Let's say we're working on this project and billing x number of hours, and we want to provide full transparency to our customer or also to our investor on how we are spending our time.

maybe he need not see every individual site, but the categories for example would be great.

Is that possible?

If not this is a feature request! :D

What sort of time scales does RT use to determine whether the user is active / idle? (i.e. after x minutes, it stops logging data, etc.) And, is this changeable?

How do I fully uninstall RescueTime from my Mac? I just downloaded it to take a look at it and decided it isn't what I need. I want to make sure that I uninstall it correctly. Thank you!

I want to only log websites in Firefox. Is it possible to exclude Internet Explorer and other browsers from being logged while keeping only Firefox?

Currently, all of Wikipedia is tracked as a reference/search site. That's not entirely true :) I would like to know how much time I spend editing Wikipedia and how much I just use it for reference. A few simple regular expressions, such as en.wikipedia.org/*[Tt]alk:* or looking for action=edit, would do the trick ...

Wouldn't it make sense to let users split up sites themselves?