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Distinguish work within the same application - using regular expressions?
I'm using VisualStudio to develop more than one project. I would like to be able to differentiate between the work on these projects based on the current title of the VisualStudio application (VS uses the "Project name - Microsoft Visual Studio" format). This would be useful for other apps too. You already allow this for browsers - why not extend it to any application?
Maybe by providing a way for the user to specify a regular expression which will extract the project name? I know this is quite an advanced usage, but it would be really useful. And you could organize collecting and sharing of these regexes on your site, so that users could contribute.
Maybe by providing a way for the user to specify a regular expression which will extract the project name? I know this is quite an advanced usage, but it would be really useful. And you could organize collecting and sharing of these regexes on your site, so that users could contribute.
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This is a feature we've got pretty high on our list. We already capture most of the needed information needed to accomplish this, we need to next work on the changes to the web UI to display that information.
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Inappropriate?This is a feature we've got pretty high on our list. We already capture most of the needed information needed to accomplish this, we need to next work on the changes to the web UI to display that information.
Thanks!
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Inappropriate?I think this may apply - I use MS Access with 2 Databases OldWork & NewWork - -- one of my employees uses a similar product; "Personal Time Manager http://ptm.sourceforge.net/ Has a PopUp that requests her to confirm the tag/category she is working on every ? 5-30min (She can choose the interval) This allows her when working in Access-OldWork she can tag part with Payroll and part with CustomerService etc. Also if Idle or away she can later come back to the computer and enter Lunch or Warehouse etc. ---- the best of both worlds would be to allow us to choose which Apps need the PopUp (like Access, Excel etc and which do not need the PopUps. - Love your Product. Kevin -
Inappropriate?I would love to set up more specific rules - I think you could use keywords in window titles to infer tags. E.g., when I'm working in Google Docs, you could look for the project name in the title of the document to derive which tag I want to apply to that work.
Alternately, an on-screen widget that lets me declare that I am working on one project or another in real time. -
Inappropriate?I've been working on accomplishing this with a custom proxy server. Basically I funnel the request through it and modify the app_name accordingly. Here are a couple of the regexps I use.
This is a snippet of PHP from my proxy server.
case "phped":
$preg_match_str = "@^\'(.+)\+-\+(.+)\+-\+.+\'$@";
preg_match($preg_match_str, $this_val, $matches);
$app = $matches[1];
print("app:" . $app . ":\n");
$project = $matches[2];
print("project:" . $project . ":\n");
break;
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This works for strings like 'phped+-+Project+-+blahblah'
This would be similar to the VisualStudio example above.
-Andrew
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Inappropriate?Are we any closer to release on this. I consider this critical to effective use of rescuetime
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I've created my own proxy server to accomplish this. If you want to try it out, please send me and email at andrew at lunde dot com. I'd be happy to see if it works for you as well. -
Inappropriate?My proxy is working pretty well for me. If you want to try it out, send me an email at andrew at lunde dot com.
I’m feeling helpful.
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Inappropriate?@lunde: genius. thanks. nice to see an OSS fix for software that isn't OSS yet :)
@rescuetime: how long before you open-source and let us add features like this for you?
I’m stoked
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Inappropriate?I like this idea. I'm concerned about sending the full website/application titles to RescueMe and I want to be able to change the locally. For example I want to delete usernames from the page title just leaving the information that I've been to facebook or twitter. And I want to send that I used OpenOffice, but I don't want every document title to be sent. (I also want to send domain names instead of full URLs)
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