I just found this on Wednesday. I shut down my PC at the end of Wednesday shortly after 18:00. I was out Thursday so today (Friday) was when I powered my PC up. I note that it is reporting a full hour for 18:00 (-19:00) for Wednesday which is obviously wrong as it was turned off at about 18:05.
I can't seem to find what it thinks I was doing for that hour. Possibly being able to list all tasks for an hour (or arbitrary time period) might be useful, at least for diagnostics.
Today I had a strange problem with time being logged while my laptop was in standby mode.
I am so sure that my laptop was in standby mode, because it was in my backpack while commuting to work.
When looking into the yml-file that has been sent there is an URL logged with start and end like this:
start_time: 2008-03-18 06:15:40
end_time: 2008-03-18 08:31:45
06:15 is exactly the time I sent my laptop to standby when leaving home. I am sure it actually reached standby, as I always check this.
08:31 is about the time I started working. So this could be the time I fired up my computer when in the office.
It is not a big problem for me and I have seen this happening today for the first time, but it ruins my statistic. Its probably good as now i already used up my 'gaming' time for today, so i have to be productive for the rest of the day ;-)
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?
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.
My irssi window is being logged as ssh for reasons I can't understand.
Is there a way to tell rescuetime what certain window titles mean, or help it learn?
Hi, my primary browser is Opera and I spend much time there. But this time not counted correctly.
In debug tab often show this error:
Error: The client failed to request "opera|WWW_GetWindowInfo!sURL".
And when rescuetime send data to server show error like this:
Sending file : C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\RescueTime.com\logs\pending\rt_20080410-162000.yml
10.04.2008 16:31:11
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
<total-records>0</total-records>
<error>There was an unexpected error, some data may have been lost. syntax error on line 207, col 17: ` window_title: '(here part of Opera window title) -
Line and column of error always changed.
Opera 9.27, Windows xp sp2, RescueTime 1.0.1.12</error></hash>
I use 2 different PCS and have a complete portable apps suite on my USB drive, ( courtesy http://portableapps.com/ ) so that my programs and settings go with me whereever I go !!!! ..
It would be great to have a portable version of the RescueTime Data Collector .. with everything ( settings, exe , logs ) at a single location..
I put my computer on hibernate at the end of the day. It seems RescueTime gets confused sometimes and would record my usage as "Windows Explorer" during hibernation -- even after I close all applications and any open Explorer window. I can't reproduce this problem, but it happens about 50% of the time.
I am noticing RescueTime reporting sites which I have never visited at all - that too for long durations. For example sites like plusmo.com, dir.blogflux.com. I repeat I have never ever visited these sites, whereas its reporting durations of 44 min for dir.blogflux.com.
And today surprisingly its not reporting the sites I actually visited, and is reporting this last dir.blogflux.com.
This only started happening a few days ago (possibly with the latest RescueTime update?), but almost all time spent in Firefox 3 beta 5 is being displayed as "Unknown URL". I've been using the Firefox 3 beta 5 for awhile, and this has only just started to happen. A few websites are showing up, but only a very small percentage. Thanks.
I have this problem, so I uninstalled it and am now reinstalling it. The installer I've just downloaded tells me the RescueTime folder already exists and do I want to install it there anyway. Shouldn't the uninstaller have deleted that folder, given that it asked me during installation was I sure I wanted to remove RT and all its components? I have Vista Home Premium.
Provide a configurable, but defaulted value, under which untagged items do not show up at all in the list view. As an example, if it were set to 10s, so any site or app used for under 10s just wouldn't show up. Would eliminate a TON of clutter.
I would like to be able to exclude certain websites and programs from being tracked on particular computers.
For instance, at home, I remote-desktop to my work computer, which is also running rescuetime. But rescuetime would track the use of mstsc (the remote desktop software) in addition to my usage on the work computer -- I would like to avoid that double-counting.
And, to be honest, I'd rather not my visits to certain websites be tracked.
I uninstalled Rescue Time, after only one week, as I thought it was incompatible with my system.
I have now tried to reinstall but my e;mail address is not accepted as it is already registered, can this be overcome somehow?
So it's reported as an application and no site details. I usually have around 100 tabs open evenly distributed between "work", "home" and "personal" topics.
Error: ould not find file 'C:\Documents and Settings\geelene\Local Settings\Application Data\RescueTime.com\logs\pending\rt_20080417-072213.yml'.
Checking current log file size
This happened both at work and at home. I found the config file user.config and tried changing 'logDirectory' to another folder. That seemed to work, but only until I restart the PC, then it's back to the old folder.
Since yesterday I am using Firefox 3 Beta 5 for a webapp I have to work with. I switched to FF3 as it loads so much faster with that browser - i guess because the limit for connections increased.
Since the switch only a fraction of the time I spend in that app is recorded. I don't know if that is a problem with FF3 as I haven't used it for anything important up to now.
The app was recorded fine when I used IE6. It is an old-style webapp that updates pages by reloading them completely instead of doing smaller updates the AJAX-way. Therefore the url changes quite often - perhaps that in combination with FF3 throws rescuetime off track?
I've tried twice now and can't get a successful install. Running under WinXP, rescuetimestart.exe starts running at 100% and I can't make it stop. Exiting rescuetime.exe doesn't make it stop. Not even rebooting makes it stop. [insert your favorite monster movie reference here]