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I wish we could have more slices in the dashboard view - two just isn't enough sometimes!

Using Rescuetime in my company, I spend some time away from my computer: breaks, meetings, interviews. So the amount of daily time reported in Rescue Time may vary greatly day after day.

RescueTime records a valuable information for me: time of the first login in the morning and time of the last logout in the evening. With these 2 times, I should be able to know the actual amount of time spent in my company (I know even some companies that use the login time of their employee as a "time card", to record the amount of time spent inside the company).

Anyway, I would like to see this information on my dash board. The best is to include it into the bar chart and count the time spent away from the computer, and auto-tag it for example "Away from PC". It would be simply computed as:

(time of last logout of the day) MINUS (time of first login of the day) MINUS (total of time recorded by RescueTime -applications, sites-)

By doing so, the dashboard will display more consistent total time day by day, and I would be able to see the days where I spend more time away from the PC.

It would be useful if you could distinguish and tag who you're talking to in instant messenger, rather than just that you have instant messenger focused. (The same way that RescueTime can tell what website you're on rather than just that you're in a browser.)

I use Pidgin to connect to several IM accounts, one mostly for work and one mostly for personal stuff. Sometimes when I'm on IM I'm chatting with my husband (NOT productive) and other times I'm really hashing things out with a colleague (very productive).

..constantly shifting from work to home I need to re-enter the proxy details whenever I log back on at work. A checkbox that enables/disables the use of a proxy would be helpful!

Keep up the good work.

I use RescueTime on my notebook - both at home and work. In corporate network I have to use proxy, of course at home not.

RescueTime data collector should automatically detect lack of proxy or at least try to send updates using proxy and directly (without proxy), if proxy was not found. That would save me a switching proxy on and off when I'm at work / home.

Just to seed our fancy new GetSatisfaction site preemptively...

One of the concerns we've heard about RescueTime is privacy.

Just wanted to let people know a few responses on that:

1) We're going to roll out a feature that will let you totally nuke some or all of your data from our servers.

2) We don't ask for your name and happily encourage webmail addresses for anonymity if you're passionate about that.

3) We're going to look at AGGREGATE data, but have a pledge to not look at indvidual data (unless there's a bug/error that requires it).

4) I hate to mention it, but there are probably dozens of geeks who have access to your inbox. And Google is recording your search history.

5) We're making it easy to cheat in RescueTime-- if you want to fudge your data, I'll tell ya how to do it (I bet you can figure it out).

6) It's nigh impossible to put on someone's computer without their knowing.

If anyone has any other ideas around privacy, let us know. We're pretty adament about giving our users as much privacy as they want/need.