I'm close to giving up on Rescue Time...

Hi Mark-- I'm sorry to hear about that! Here are some thoughts and developments that might change your mind. If not, we do appreciate the feedback and insight you've given us in your tenure as a RescueTime user.

- We believe that default settings are useful for most people, but yeah-- guessing categories and scores sometimes means we're wrong. We're about to do a data push where we scan how people have categorized/scored things and set the defaults accordingly. So our defaults will get better soon. They'll never be perfect, though.

- Overriding scores is easy! If you don't like our default scores, you can head over to your top activities list (for the month, like : https://www.rescuetime.com/browse/act... ) and start rescoring. I bet you could get everything important rescored in just a few minutes. Resetting categories is a little more effort intensive, but I think is a bit less subjective (so we're right more often with our category defaults).

- I think it's important to let go of scoring/categorizing EVERYTHING perfectly. Once you've got good metadata on your top 30 or so things in a given period, you've really covered 98+% of your time.

- There's search! Our indexing has had a few hiccups, but once that's ironed out, you can do searches for a lot of things that you might tag. Searches include scores, category names, app names, etc. So if you miss a tag called "webdev" which included photoshop work and coding work, for example, you could search for "design development" and get a pretty good report on that.

Thanks again for your feedback!