I just signed up yesterday and installed RescueTime on my MacBook Pro. It was late in the day, and it completed 1 update before I shut down. This morning I installed the data collector in my XP VMWare Fusion install as well. I now get Timed Out errors in both OSes.
It worked on the Mac side yesterday, but doesn't work on either OS this morning. Is there a server issue? Or is it my computer?
I installed Firefox 3 recently the day it was released. It was very stable. I tried RescueTime for the first time a few days after that. I noticed that FF3 started to crash randomly all the time. It even crashed while running in safe mode. Not able to figure out what was causing this, I suspected RescueTime and turned it off. I noticed that FF3 works fine when RT is turned off. This could be a bug with RecueTime. Please have a look at this bug, since it means that I won't try RT until it's fixed.
I'm running FF3 and RescueTime on WinXP (with all recent Service Packs installed). I've noticed this crashing behaviour on both my work PC and laptop, both of which are running the same mix of software.
All of the tags in the "time spent" graph are not available. I have close to 30 tags, but only 7 or 8 show up in the "slice" dropdown box. Any ideas on what may be wrong?
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).
Is there a way to specify the end of the day, similar to choosing Sunday or Monday as the beginning of the week?
Namely, a lot of times I work until 5am, and I normally associate those hours with the previous day. It's all based on the idea that the day changes when I sleep, not at midnight.
Clearly not a huge issue, but what do people think?
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".
I'd like to be able to manually enter computer tasks that weren't recorded by RescueTime. I set up a new laptop this weekend and did some work on it, but I realize now that I didn't install RescueTime, so all my productivity went unrecorded! ;)
If there were a way to make manual records in RescueTime, I would be a happy camper.
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?
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?
I'd like to be able to specify the productivity of "untagged" applications.
I don't really want to create a "not-work" tag for everything. I'd like to be able to say that all time spend in an untagged application has this productivity. This would really improve my productivity and efficient scores and give me a much more accurate idea over time.
I'm using Mac OS 10.4.11. I downloaded RescueTime, installed it, and it was working fine. Then I saw a preference that said "Hide Dock Item," which I clicked, relaunched the application, and now I can't access it. I have a RescueTime menu item on my menu bar, but I can't click it (as I could when I had a dock icon). RescueTime doesn't show up in my application list or my force-quit list. Besides the menu icon (that I can't click), I'd have no way of knowing the program was even open.
Help! How do I undo this, or at least get the menu icon to work?
The Productivity Measure is not meaningful in its current form. Currently the Productivity Measure, as I understand it, expresses what percentile the user is in productivity compared with all RT users. However, this percentile is a function of the arbitrary productivity values that I assign to my tags. Furthermore, if my average productivity percentile is in the 90s the day-to-day variation is quite small and hard to observe.
Instead, I suggest making the producitvity a cardinal measure (or at least provide that option). For example, it could simply be the time of an activity times the productivity of that activity. This way, I can compare my productivity across units of time (days, weeks, months) in a meaningful way (eg. I could say if I was twice as productive one week versus another). In the current form there is little meaningful way to compare productivity levels, one can only rank order them.
Lastly, I would suggest making the productivity of an activity the sum of the tag productivities, and not the average. This will make it easy to both assign a given productivity level to a particular activity and to create a system of tags to visualize how one spends one's time. For example, if I want to create a super-set tag of all my "work" activities, it will change my productivity scores no matter what value I set the super-set productivity at. It would be better if one could tag activities without necessarily changing their productivity.
A similar cardinal measure for Efficiency would also be useful (eg. productivity/time on computer).
If you are concerned about disturbing the current system, them you could implement these suggestions as options for advanced users.
I think it would be interesting if there was an option to switch the graphs into a timeline mode. Rather than break it down per task / per hour, I think it would be nice if you could see a large timeline (for the entire day or a given time period) instead.
Allow tags to have timeframes attached to them. IE: between 8am and 4pm on Monday through Friday the 'work' tag is automatically appended to all applications (user defined).
I played a two hour game of Age of Empires yesterday, and it registered as 10 minutes. When I watch movies, RescueTime records maybe 5 minutes for each hour I watch.
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.)
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