Recently active topics in RescueTime tagged with tags

First of all this is great product. But tagging Application/Sites takes too much time.
I have to look for each item and apply tag to it.

How about having some Filter/Search for Application/Site.
For example, www.microsoft.com and download.microsoft.com are same for me or any other URL that belong to microsoft.com.
Right now I have to go through entire list of un-tagged items and tag those.
it will be best if we can filter data by say "microsoft" that shows all Applications/Sites which has microsoft in it.

I have started to use this from past one week and I found it difficult to manage application tags, I believe web surfer like me will have hard time to tag sites.

How does one tag multi-discipline applications? For example, I use emacs for both software development and checking my email. The web browser is handled by tagging specific sites instead of the browser as a whole, but many other applications are also like a web browser in this respect. Sometimes used for work, sometimes used for play. Currently tags apply globally to an application, so it's always work _and_ play not work _or_ play.

Is there a way to tag specific time periods?

I think it would be great if RescueTime could detect which computer is sending the info if it is installed in several PCs, so the same aplication can be tagged differently based on the computer.
For example: I use RescueTime both at work and at home. I have different computers for both places, and similar applications installed. And I want RescueTime to allow me to tag Photoshop (for example) as "Work" if the info comes from my 1st computer and as "Entertainment" if it comes from the 2nd.

Cheers!

tayete@gmail.com

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).

It would be really useful for me if I were able to assign multiple tags with different percentages or a maximum time. For example I use facebook to communicate with a volunteer group, I know that on average that takes up a certain percentage of my time on the site, alternately I could put in a maximum number of minutes I spend on that per day or, even better, per week. So I would have the ability to tag facebook as "procrastination (65%), personal (25%), communication/volunteer (10%)" and this would more accurately reflect my time spent in different ways.

One thing that would be a great option is to have a special interactive workflow with RT, like so...

You're in a browser, at a site tagged "work." You open a link from that site, and you can have it set to either "auto tag" or "ask" for a sub tag.

However, there would be times where there might be an exception. I wouldn't mind having a little dialog box constantly telling me what my time is being logged as, where I can tell it hey that's wrong and change it.

Not to mention being able to edit the time myself - both to add and subtract. This would be especially helpful with the idle time gaps that happen while watching movies or the like.

On the matter of sub-tagging - while I use Open Office for work, I use it to work for two different companies. With that dialog box and sub-tags, I could switch who I'm working for at that time with a single click.

And finally, managing the sub-tags. There are definitely some tags which are general umbrellas - work and personal being the biggest umbrella, then I have writing, research, networking, entertainment, and communications etc. Lowest are very specific things like the employers' names and project names.

It would be exceptionally handy to have the graphs understand this, so I could quickly see how long I spent networking for personal projects, and how long networking for my employers, for instance.

Absolutely fantastic app btw =D

Current way of setting goals doens't work for me - I don't work equally every week. I wish I could set something like:
I spend time on "work" is 2 times more than "procastination".

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.)

Any way that Rescue Time can track finer detailed information would be a big help. Two examples from my own experience:

- I use cuteftp to do a lot of html and css editing on web sites live on the server. I do this for clients web sites (work) and my own (personal). I'd also love to be able to track how much time I spent on each client's site in cuteftp. Woul dit be possible to assign tags to the time spent in cuteftp dependent on the server that I was connected to? I imagine this would be soemwhat similar to the way you can tag whatever web site you visit via a browser.

- Using other apps, for example Photoshop or Dreamweaver, I'd love to be able to track how much time I am spending on each client's work. Would it be possible for RescueTime to see the directory structure of the files that I have open in the current app and apply tags to the time spent in that app dependent on the directory they are in. If it could be nested, that would be even better. Say for example I have a "work" directory with all my clients jobs in. If I am editing a photoshop layout for client xyz which is in the directory /work/xyz/layout.psd I would love to be able to apply the tags "work" and "xyz" to the time spent on these files.

I want a goal of "hours of untagged activities"

I've never used more than one tag for an app/site. The reason? I don't want my graph to be reporting double or triple what I'm doing. That's confusing.

But your new subsets graph is very interesting. I like it. But I can't use it, because I won't double-tag my apps, because I don't want Rescue Time telling me that I worked for 36 hours yesterday.

However, if I could select an option which allowed me to promote one tag as the 'main' tag for an app, with the others as sub-tags - that would be amazing.

Otherwise, I'll have to miss out on subset tags, and stick with "Web browsing - personal", "Web browsing - work", etc.