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It would be great if RescueTime could monitor the exact Word document I'm working on
I use different groups for the different projects I am working on and I was thinking whether RescueTime could read the exact document I'm working on in Microsoft Word similarly to how it reads what webpage I'm on, so when if I'm working on a translation project I could file it under there, if I'm taking notes at a university lecture that could go under there, and so on.
By the way I love RescueTime so cheers to everyone.
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Inappropriate?I wonder if we shoudl concentrate on the FILE we are working on - that would be a lot of tagging. Perhaps the FOLDER would be better. Excel and Word seem to recport the WINDOW title or perhaps it is the file name but not the path.
so if I work on
c:/guy/project1/fiel1.doc
and
c:/guy/project1/file64.xls
both acitivites could be tagges for project 1.
but can we figure out this is WORD editing an OUTLOOK message?
<attribute name="app_name" type="string">WINWORD</attribute>
<attribute name="os_username" type="string">AAFC-AAC\cousineaug</attribute>
<attribute name="window_title" type="string">RE: My duties - Message - Microsoft Word</attribute>
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Inappropriate?That would indeed be a lot of tagging. I used an open source program called PC fare meter (http://projecttimer.sourceforge.net/) for a while that did exactly that. One of the problems with it was that you had a lot of tagging to do. You could use regular expressions though. Once it had all the tags, it could automatically assign the time I spend writing manuals to the different projects I had going.
I stopped using the program because it had too many bugs. It had quite a few good ideas though. -
Inappropriate?I think the idea is good for those of us writing on large documents. Then Word in general could be "Writing" (for all the letters etc.) and then the 3 big documents could then be tagged individually. I could imagine the user could mark any application for "Detailed tagging" (or any capable of revealing the file to Rescuetime if that is an issue).
An application marked for Detailed Tagging could then have an overall "writing" tag, and a list of opened documents. The documents of interest could then be tagged (especially if the are sorted by time used), and Rescuetime could also filter to only show the documents taking up more than 10% of the time.
The automation could even go one step further - Detailed Tagging could only be offered if 80% of the time is covered by less than 20% of the files (or max 10 files).
Alternatively you could enter filters (which could cover future files as well)-
Filter: \Research*\*Customer.doc - Tag: "Customer research"
but that would end up being a more complex interface. However maybe filtering could help in grouping the files found.
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Inappropriate?I'd like the option to tag both folders OR documents
