It occurred to me that all of the "dead time" between when you last do something and when the 2-minute idle timer kicks in could be removed simply by not logging the time between the last keyboard/mouse/window event and the expiration of the idle timer. i.e. keep track of the timestamp for the last event, then when you get to the idle timout, you use that previous timestamp when logging rather than the current time.
Also, 2 minutes seems like a long time... I hardly ever go more than 30 seconds without at least fidgiting with the mouse, even when reading a document. Perhaps that timer could be settable on the preferences/logging/timer settings tab.
I'm new to RescueTime and have two questions about idle time - I'm trying to square the RTime numbers with my own experience watching what I do. So:
- I often leave iGoogle up in a tab in Firefox (all this is Mac by the way), while I work in other tabs. I notice that RT is logging much more time in iGoogle than I think I actually spend. Is it possible that the iGoogle refreshes which happen while the tab is up but not selected are being counted? Any other possibilities? I think I'm spending about five mins there (I dont look at it - I use it mostly to go other places), and RT has it logged about 30 mins, so it's a big diff.
- I'm running Pandora for music in background. Is that counting as "time" when it's not the selected tab? Again, the numbers dont quite square, although the diff is not so much.
I suspect that my time isn't being logged correctly. In one particular hour I spent my time in applications tagged with "work". The graph for that hour says I spent 9 minutes on work and 48 on "everything else". I've looked at the logs of all the apps and sites and I can't see enough time spent during that hour to make up the 48 minutes.
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