Recently active topics in RescueTime tagged with features

I would like to be able to set goals over a period other than "day" and "weekday". Specifically, I would like to say "at least 1 hour per week on tagX".

It would be nice with goal that says: "I want to spend more/less than x hours on my computer per day.

Please, please, please can you order tags alphabetically when tagging. Like most users, I tag in bulk. So I go to the tag screen, and locate my tag - let's see it's on the fourth line near the right. I tag a few things with it. Then the darn thing moves, it's on the third line somewhere near the middle. Then nothing for a while, then *BANG* it's gone again. Where is it? Second line? No, third line still, but on the left.

Well, you get the idea. It's very frustrating. I know you're placing the most used tags at the top, and I know I can bulk tag now, but that's no always how I work.

(If you don't want to alphabetise tags, at least fix the order until I refresh the page.)

I tag a lot of websites I visit, but there's no way I'm going to tag them all - and nor should I.

So any websites I don't tag as something else should probably be tagged as "browsing" or the like.

It would be great if there were an option so that all untagged browsing could be treated as if it were tagged with whatever tag I specify.

(This obviously wouldn't apply to untagged applications.)

Just a note to all the Linux folks out there that, while we "proudly support Mac and Windows", we are NOT proud that we don't support Linux. We wish we did.

Our early marketing/PR efforts showed about 6-7% of our visitors were Linux users. Additionally, we think Linux users are more likely to be avid stats-hackers (and thus dig RescueTime). So we REALLY want to support Linux.

Nonetheless, there are only so many hours in the day and we are a team of 3 self-funded guys.

Our sincere hope is that some enterprising young linux geek out there will reach out to us with an interest in building a data collector. Our data collectors talk to a REST web service, so it wouldn't be an overwhelming task for a sharp coder, and we'd be glad to offer a lot of support.

For more info, feel free to contact us. We've got a plea for help up on our API/Developer page:

http://www.rescuetime.com/developers/

Since you require desktop-login with your desktop clients, it would be great if instead of typing in my username and password, you supported OAuth so I could simply click and link, get a token, and then not worry about logging in every time I restart.

This would really simplify things!

When I know I'm not trying to be productive, I'll disable logging as I'm sure many people do. However it would be nice to have a visual cue to remind me to turn it back on when I start working again.

Could you add separate menu bar icons to indicate whether RescueTime is logging? Something as simple as the greying out the icon a la AirPort would be enough for me. Thanks!

I would like to see Firefox/IE/Safari combined into a single category, and then be able to drill into that to see what sites were visited.It is nice to see all of the sites, but there get to be so many little sites that it is hard to see the big picture. Most other applications only show up as a single application (Office Apps, Visual Studio, etc.) rather than displaying which projects/documents you are working in (though it would be nice :) ). I have a good idea of how much time I am spending proportionately on work related sites vs. personal sites, but I have no idea how much time I am spending overall.

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.

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).

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

Since I work with audio and video, the title of the particular Category - "Fun" - doesn't sound right to me.
Something that you work with for hours a day (and nights) and gives you lots of headaches can't be exactly "fun"... ;-)
Maybe the name of the Category can be just Audio/Video?
What do you guys think?