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Hi all,

I've built a little something-something to add time spent in meetings and on the phone to RT.

(Don't let the word "hack" fool you, neither existing RescueTime files NOR the RescueTime application will be touched or tinkered with.)

It's basically an Applescript with a wee bit of shell scripting peppered on, wrapped up as application.

Take a look at my blog:
http://carlo.zottmann.org/2008/02/13/...

Might be useful for some of you. It's useful to me, so it's a success already. ;)

Cheers,
Carlo

maybe I've missed this but can RT log the time from when I logon my computer to when I log off i.e the hours in my 'working day'? That way I can see how much time I'm spending away from my PC and how long a 'real' day is rather than a preset time.

Noticed that user.config in:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\RescueTime.com\RescueTime.exe_Url_iqitukdlg04szbe4dffie0b1txso3v3b\1.0.5.20 contains email_address and password in plain-text.

It doesn't bother me - I'm the sole user of this system but if computer is used by more than one operator this seems like a dubious practice.

Comments?
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I don't remember giving permission to use my data, yet I just saw a Tech Crunch article that shows aggregated data from RescueTime users. Can someone explain?

Article here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/...

Can I get RescueTime to just show "Firefox" and not list every single website? This is a big problem for me and if I can't do this then the software is too much work to manage.

Hi guys!

Thank you for the great app. I love it! However, I've noticed that newly released Safari 3.1 hangs trying display these flash graphics on Rescuetime dashboard.

I don't know is this Safari problem (I'm sure flash object work fine on other sites), but think you should be informed about this issue.

Once again thank you for your work!

It took me awhile to figure it out but I think i got the knack of it. Efficiency is my perception of spendign my time on efficient VS non efficient tasks. Productivity is measuring myself against everyone else in RT.

The second may not be as useful as the first sicne we have differnet ideas of what means productive. Still, if you score inthe 80s in both you must THINK you're doign something right.

Reading my email is productive only when work related. Reading email is non productive when I'm deleting spam or the plethora of FYI forwards I don't want to receive. Considering email is where I spend most of my time I am not sure I can adequately assess email in terms of efficiency.

Still the tool is good . . . to make the little graph more useful, perhaps it shoudl skip weekends - but then we're back to "week starts on what day?" Bottom line - if my work pattern makes it less useful then I do not use it.

I can see in a large organization setting the same goals and productivity for everyone then you can compare to "rest of MY team"....now THAT would be useful.

new goal layout is cool. Generally I like the new look. I can see at a glance how many days I met my goals AND the average per day. So if my goal is 2 hours per day and I met it 18 of 20 times and my average is 2.1 hours I can say the really good days made up for the ones imissed.

this is a good combiantion

Guy