What sort of time scales does RT use to determine whether the user is active / idle? (i.e. after x minutes, it stops logging data, etc.) And, is this changeable?
When I am in a Live Meeting or watching a webinar does Rescuetime see me as idle? It sure would be helpful if I coI have not actively been using my keyboard/mouse. "Pause IDle Detection" until I click "Resume Idle Detection".
This might be helpful for people on the phone as well. As long as the computer doesn't go into standby or screensaver mode.
Love the product though.
Here is a thought, a configurable rescuetime screensaver might be helpful for recording time in meetings (and advertise Rescuetime to people passing by). By pausing idle detection and recording the configurable screensaver (a list of tags) the time would be captured.
The idea might uld right click on the Rescuetime icon and select "Pause Idle Detection" so that the current active window is logged even if I have not actively been using my keyboard/mouse. "Pause IDle Detection" until I click "Resume Idle Detection".
This might be helpful for people on the phone as well. As long as the computer doesn't go into standby or screensaver mode.
Love the product though.
Here is a thought, a configurable rescuetime screensaver might be helpful for recording time in meetings (and advertise Rescuetime to people passing by). By pausing idle detection and recording the configurable screensaver (a list of tags) the time would be captured.
The idea might not work if the computer goes into standby.
No way to report things like watching movies, listening to audio...for instance:
Sometimes I will watch a movie on my computer. Currently it says I have spent 20 seconds in windows media player. The movie was 2 hours.
Sometimes I will listen to audio lectures online such as from the MIT website. It doesn't report but a couple of seconds here.
I know this is due to the program reporting that I am inactive so that it doesn't record time I may spend away from the computer, however is there not a way to have it record time regardless in case I want to capture the time that I spend doing these things also?
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.
In my first week with RescueTime, my statistics are clearly corrupt. They include ridiculously large amounts of time spent in two applications I know I did not use actively for very long, but which I likely left in the foreground when leaving my machine inactive for extended periods. Are there any known issues with the timeout/idle feature on the Mac client? Does it work? Does it depend on the system screensaver being activated or something else?
If I lock my computer with Windows-L (Or Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter), does RescueTime notice this and stop tracking immediately, or does it still wait the two minutes for the idle time out?
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