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Regexp tagging
Hello, I would like to be able to apply tags to all "apps" that match specified regular expression.
At the moment, RescueTime suggests "You don’t have to tag everything. You should really only tag apps & sites that you've spent a lot of time with or that you'll use again in the future." I don't agree. For example, I may spend a whole day researching the life and times of Thomas Nashe, visiting 50-60 different websites in one day, maybe 2 or 3 of which I will return to. I still want to be able to aggregate those 50-60 sites under a single tag.
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At the moment, RescueTime suggests "You don’t have to tag everything. You should really only tag apps & sites that you've spent a lot of time with or that you'll use again in the future." I don't agree. For example, I may spend a whole day researching the life and times of Thomas Nashe, visiting 50-60 different websites in one day, maybe 2 or 3 of which I will return to. I still want to be able to aggregate those 50-60 sites under a single tag.
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Inappropriate?Absolutely brilliant idea.
We were pretty surprised by the long-tail-ness of it all... It turns out that 35-50% of people's time is spent on tons of sub-5 minute tasks in a browser, so a regexp solution is the way to go... This is pretty challenging to pull off (from a UI perspective as well as a backend perspective), but we're definitely going to try to make it happen!
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Inappropriate?You're too kind...
Actually, thinking about it, there's a simpler alternative (for the case I described). How about allowing users to set tags in the console that then get applied to all "apps" used from then on?
So I could set "thomas+nashe" in the console and away I go. Though there maybe some false positives, it would be a simple solution.
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Inappropriate?Filtering would be one idea like ippy's suggestion.
For example with my browsing history, since my work web sites are few I would prefer to filter all domain sites under personal browsing unless I explicitly re-tag them as work or something else.
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