Recently active problems in RescueTime

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 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.

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?

for 2 days now no graphs . . .
my numbers are there but I get "error loading data" where the three graphs should be. . . .

using ie6 with xp . . .
do Ineed an updated plugin to see the graphs

I use a number of Java-based applications (Eclipse, Aqua Data Studio, fabFORCE DB Designer etc) and I've noticed that all these apps get lumped together under the app name of "javaw".

Is these any way to differentiate between these apps?

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.

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?

Hi. I am a new account. i have downloaded the software, installed it and put all the relevant data in place. however, if i want to Verify my account it comes up with error message stated above. i have entered the proxy details as requested.

Regards

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.

I'm using Mac OS 10.4.11. I downloaded RescueTime, installed it, and it was working fine. Then I saw a preference that said "Hide Dock Item," which I clicked, relaunched the application, and now I can't access it. I have a RescueTime menu item on my menu bar, but I can't click it (as I could when I had a dock icon). RescueTime doesn't show up in my application list or my force-quit list. Besides the menu icon (that I can't click), I'd have no way of knowing the program was even open.

Help! How do I undo this, or at least get the menu icon to work?

Thanks,
Julie

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.

My mac data collector is broken. :-( It worked for the first few days I had it, but now it won't upload anything. When I click "Send Update Now", the RescueTime logo just staying highlighted for a while like its thinking.

I'd like to track my work time daily by project #'s that I create rather than sites or apps. Is there a way to create some kind of numbered apps so that my time could be tracked by my own project # system?

The data does not show Flock usage at all.
Config: Flock 1.0.1, Windows XP

Upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. And upgraded to Firefox 3.0. RescueTime is not logging any of my Internet activity. I tried Safari, but that didn't work either (clearly a leopard issue).

All the other posts concerning this issue are over 7 months old, otherwise I wouldn't post again. Has a solution been found?

hello, I've noticed that rescuetime is sometimes not enabling logging after resuming from screen saver. It happens both on my laptop and on my wife's PC. How can I make it work?

Error in the debug log:

There was an unexpected error, some data may have been lost. Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry '30550-2008-06-04-9-17772' for key 1: INSERT INTO hourly_duration_summaries (`month`, `records_count`, `w

[update] short additional info - the data HAS been lost :)

Some of our Leopard testers are reporting an issue with logs being sent to the web service. We are looking into the issue now.