Not sure if more info is needed, but basically want a version of the Dashboard that will be useful in teh side bar so I can pop it open at anytime to see what is going on within my "RescueTime."
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 was wondering FF3 using ca. 40-50% of CPU (that means a whole core!) the whole time in the last days. I searched for the origin of this phenomenon and now I found it:
As long as I have rescuetime.com in one of my tabs (doesn't matter if this tab is active or even if I use FF3 at the moment or having it run in the background) the CPU usage is that high! As soon as I close the tab the usage by FF3 rapidly goes down to 5-10% when using it and ca. 2% when using another program and having FF3 running in the background.
So how can it be, that only having rescuetime in a tab causes such a high CPU usage? I mean I don't even use it. I can have google opened in 50 tabs and it does not use any CPU usage. Why does rescuetime.com?
Python date error not allowing uploading of data There was an unexpected error, some data may have been lost. year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900
Here's the entire error message
2008-07-19 15:57:44
Sending file: ~/Library/RescueTime/Logs/Pending/rt_20080719-154956.yml
2008-07-19 15:57:44
<hash><total-records>0</total-records><error>There was an unexpected error, some data may have been lost. year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/var/www/django/api/releases/20080708001327/rescueapi/../rescueapi/user_logs/views.py", line 53, in create
user.save()
File "/opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 212, in save
db_values = [f.get_db_prep_save(f.pre_save(self, False)) for f in non_pks]
File "/opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 494, in get_db_prep_save
value = value.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
ValueError: year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900
</error></hash>
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?
There is a problem with using local files in the browser. I use the FF3-AddOn UpdateTracker which saves whole sites on the hard disc (to check for changes) and uses a local path for that when displaying the data in FF3. But Rescuetime has a problem with that and assigns this time to another site (maybe the last one used before). Now I have up to 40 minutes of a site I just visited for 2 minutes or so. I saw what's the problem by looking what the debug window says. Everytime I clicked on a tab with a local path it logged the other URL.
I have the following problem:
I used a site (a homepage; between 9pm and 11pm) which says for today (24m 57s) total. But when I click on it to reach the "App / Site Details" the graph (18m 54s) shows for 9pm and (24m 53s) for 10 pm. So the total would be (43m 47s). But I think 24m 57s must be the right time and because I used that site while the hour changed (and without a break), the 10pm graph seems to show the total time, not only how long it was used within this hour. Could that be?
I also have a screen of that where you can see the two bars (one up to 18.75, one up to 25) and on the same screen the total of 24m 57s.
supplement:
This also leads to depended tags showing the wrong overall time:
I tagged the site as "video" and "fun" and now "video time" is (1h 10m), but I used the three depending apps/sites for only (24m 57s) + (16m 57s) + (10m 12s) = (52m 6s), so there also is a difference.
And "fun" (1h 16m), but the 8 depending sites/apps only add up to (49m Xs).
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?
The "Today" at my dashboard and also the calendar still show Monday although it is Tuesday in Germany. So this does not orientate on the location date but maybe on server date.
This leads to a total time of 5h 25m total and 4h 50m today (although there are 0:35 minutes transfered for Tuesday until now).
At the "Time Spent" chart at "This Week" it is right. This one shows the right times for Monday and Tuesday. But not on the "Today" charts.
I'm just using RescueTime for 2,5 hours and it worked well but since half and hour or so, it seems that it does not not add further URLs or programs. I have 43 entries now, but it does not add further ones? Of course I tried to update manually, the time counter goes up, but no new entries appear in the list.
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
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.
I just found this on Wednesday. I shut down my PC at the end of Wednesday shortly after 18:00. I was out Thursday so today (Friday) was when I powered my PC up. I note that it is reporting a full hour for 18:00 (-19:00) for Wednesday which is obviously wrong as it was turned off at about 18:05.
I can't seem to find what it thinks I was doing for that hour. Possibly being able to list all tasks for an hour (or arbitrary time period) might be useful, at least for diagnostics.
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.