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Hello there,

I like the new setup.

My only problem is the new color scheme

If I want to see my tags "email" and "travel" both of which have productivity "+1", on my hourly graph, they are both the same exact color blue, so it is difficult to discern which is which. I like the yellow and red better, since they are very different from each other.

In the page which displays a tag detail with the hours per day spent on this tag, you also display the goal line. This is great.

Even better would be to add some interaction in the graph: grabbing and moving the line up and down would change the hour value of the goal. Double clicking on the line would jump to edit the goal.

If no goal has been set for this tag, then could you add a link "Add a goal for this tag". When clicked, would add a goal for this tag in the Goal and Alerts page.

All this would make navigation inside the dashboard much much easier...

Hi,

in the graphs for longer periods (eg. forever) when a certain tag already has many hours, the unit of display becomes "days". It looks very much 1 day = 24 hours is used (which is correct ;-)). But I'd find it rather useful to define a "work day" time span (eg. 9 hours) that would be used here. Because being productive for 2 weeks = 10 days = 10*9 h = 90h currently displays as 90/24 = 3.75 days, which looks kinda wrong.

Thanks,
Alex!

I have a suggestion for the scale in graphs. You'd have to check all the permutations, but I think it would be prettier if a scale of 58 minutes was shown as 60 minutes (or 1 hour) and that a scale max value would always be reasonably divisible by 4. Thinking minutes only, something like this might work

assume MAX_TIME is the biggest number you need to display on the graph expressed in decimal minutes

scale= int(((max_time -.01)+4)/4)*4
if scale>= 52 then scale = 60

the first bit can be wirtten as max_time+3.999
the idea is that 60.0 should become 63.999 and truncate to a final value of 60

the second statement makes anything over 50 something a full hour

It seems you have already this rounding thing figured out: 70 minutes results ina 2 hour maximum for the scale.

The title says it all, I think. The line chart at the top of the graph is a useful chart. It would be even more useful if the day of the week showed as part of the hover-text: "Monday Jan 14, 11 hours 42 minutes".

3 suggestions, the 4th is in another thread which I will find and attach to the bottom.These are just things I notice while using rescuetime that i wish I could do, I don't know if anyone else thinks the same or wants the same but i figured it was worth suggesting.

First one is about updating. To update now you need to right-click on the icon near the time/show preferences/send update now.

Seems very long, can it just be a right click then click update now? or if not at least show what time it was last updated? so you can decide if its worth updating the data?

2nd.
I like to look at the graphs, and analyse them being a nerdy numbers guy. So i kind of like flexibility with the graphs. I like the week view, and I like the day view, but what I would like to do is when it comes to the day view, is be able to click on an hour and have it tell me what I spent that hour doing and what programs /applications I used.

Another thing that I would like to be able to do is to overlay differnt tags, or days or weeks, or times i use the computer. For example, overlay the daily view of each week day to see when i tend to use the computer the most, or overlay Internet tag to see when i use the Internet the most, or watch tv shows, or anything like that. Just be able to compare the data by overlaying various tags, or times.

Also I would like to be able to zoom in just to view say from 12pm-5pm or a custom set of times not a full day or hour or week.

The last thing I will post below, because I have typed it out in another thread previously.