I just signed on to Rescue Time and I must say so far I am intrigued. Still learning the scope of its value, but will continue to monitor in my busy, busy day. Thx and awesome!
Does RescueTime track my time running applications? For example, I was just down loading pics from my camera and updating my picture files. Is there a way to make RescueTime track these types of activities?
Take screenshots, say, one in every 15 mins. These would be stored locally (?). One year of 150kb jpegs every 15mins would take about 5GB (without gaps).
Screenshots would help in project tracking. On top of seeing hourly aggregates you would see some actual screens with exact timestamps.
Is there a way to track time spent on Microsoft Word? I am not having any problems with websites but I have been working on a few documents and I don't see Word anywhere to tag.
For some reason Rescue Time isn't tracking my Outlook Express usage, which is quite alot and is important for me to find out how much time I spend emailing.
I've recently installed Rescuetime but for the past two days it hasn't collected any data. There have been no errors of any sorts and i'm very certain it has full access through my firewall, both pc side and router side. What can you suggest?
I am a researcher that can more or less decide my own schedule.
To assure I am not being lazy I put the goal of working 8 hours/day.
I have soon discovered that 8hours/day will be too strict if you really meant to work no more than 8 hours/day.
Whenever you read something more than one minute without interaction ( for instance trying to figure out what an equation means) or go to the bathroom 3 minutes, etc will not count as working hours.
Anyone has any rule of the thumb for how many hours should be the equivalent for 8hours/day
RescueTime does not collect data from Minefield. Minefield is just the codename for the beta/nightly versions of Firefox. I am using the Mac data collector, but the problem may affect Windows users as well.
Any way that Rescue Time can track finer detailed information would be a big help. Two examples from my own experience:
- I use cuteftp to do a lot of html and css editing on web sites live on the server. I do this for clients web sites (work) and my own (personal). I'd also love to be able to track how much time I spent on each client's site in cuteftp. Woul dit be possible to assign tags to the time spent in cuteftp dependent on the server that I was connected to? I imagine this would be soemwhat similar to the way you can tag whatever web site you visit via a browser.
- Using other apps, for example Photoshop or Dreamweaver, I'd love to be able to track how much time I am spending on each client's work. Would it be possible for RescueTime to see the directory structure of the files that I have open in the current app and apply tags to the time spent in that app dependent on the directory they are in. If it could be nested, that would be even better. Say for example I have a "work" directory with all my clients jobs in. If I am editing a photoshop layout for client xyz which is in the directory /work/xyz/layout.psd I would love to be able to apply the tags "work" and "xyz" to the time spent on these files.
Is there a way to enable a global shortcut for toggling logging in the Mac version of the client? I currently have to make sure that RescueTime is my active application before I can toggle logging, instead of being able to press the shortcut combination while in any application.
Is there any way to block a particular site from being logged? I have a Firefox add-on called blogrovr that stays connected to blogrovr.com - it makes my graphs practically useless because that one site dominates everything. Since there is a whitelist feature, I would expect that there is a blacklist feature as well; unfortunately, I've had no luck finding it.
A lot of us have already tagged sites using online bookmarks e.g. Delicious or Google Bookmarks. What about the ability to check if a site (or a parent/child site) is in such a list, and to use those as a default tag. That would supplement the ideas for default tags for unknown sites.
I know this makes me an idiot, but how do you download the time tracker application? I have it on my pc, but i work half the time on my mac so its not very representative..... I've just spent twenty minutes on this, which is WAY too long. There should be a "Download" button somewhere.
Since a few days I have a problem while viewing my dashboard. The browser (firefox) starts to use a lot of cpu cycles just by having the dashboard open.
If I close the tab that displays the dashboard cpu usage is back to normal.
I usually left one tab showing the dashboard to have a glance at it now and then, but that is not possible anymore :-(
I found that that 143 gig of my disk was devoted to a rescuetime log (in documents and settings). I uninstalled rescuetime and deleted the ... xml log.
Now my c: ... properties will not reflect the "new" free space, in "my computer".