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Dallas Despain marked one of Kevin's replies in Songbird as useful. Kevin replied to the idea "Podcast subscription support".

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A comment on the idea "Podcast subscription support" in Songbird:

Not having podcast support is the reason I still have to use other media players. I don't even use Cd's any more. I thought songbird was supposed to "play the web" – Dallas Despain, on August 22, 2009 14:31

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Dallas Despain replied on February 08, 2008 22:58 to the idea "time line view - I need an overall picture of my workday - tag chunks of time as well as apps" in RescueTime:

btw, congrats to you all. RescueTime Rocks!

Dallas Despain replied on February 08, 2008 22:41 to the idea "time line view - I need an overall picture of my workday - tag chunks of time as well as apps" in RescueTime:

Thanks Tony,

I'm glad to know it's on the roadmap. I also thought of a reason to bump it up :) Let's say I spent 1 hour yesterday using MS Word for work. Then I tag it as work. Today, I spend 30 minutes writing a personal letter, and I add a personal tag.

Then the reports are innacurate, because it looks like I was doing 30 minutes of work today on MS Word, but I really wasn't.

Is there a way around this problem? Is this user error? Am I missing something? Maybe you've got a creative way of tagging things?

Dallas Despain started following the problem "On startup, Rescue Time Title Bar still is displayed until I close it" in RescueTime.

Dallas Despain replied on February 04, 2008 16:14 to the idea "time line view - I need an overall picture of my workday - tag chunks of time as well as apps" in RescueTime:

I found an activity logger here. It would be cool if RT could make this feature, or integrate with it! http://www.screeperzone.com/2007/08/0...

Dallas Despain marked one of Tony's replies in RescueTime as useful. Tony replied to the question "Can we track our time from two computers simultaneously? I frequently switch back and forth from my laptop to the desktop.". Dallas Despain and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

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Dallas Despain replied on February 04, 2008 15:34 to the question "Tracking time when I am not using the computer" in RescueTime:

Ah, I knew I couldn't have been the first one! I like both of these options! Is that OK? or do you have to choose one? I don't think 2 is too disruptive, especially if you could set how long too wait before sending you an sms. Or otherwise prompting you, such as the app flashing a prompt on your screen.

#1 seems risky, because calendar's represent plans, and meetings go long, we forget them, and other things happen. But as long as we could tell RT what really happened after it logged the time off the calendar, then I think it would be great.

Dallas Despain shared an idea in RescueTime on February 04, 2008 15:27:

time line view - I need an overall picture of my workday - tag chunks of time as well as apps

I originally started looking into a time tracking application, because my team sends a weekly status report. I thought, gosh if I just kept track of my time, these would be easier to write.

I originally thought of just a text document with a time stamp and a short description of what I'm about to begin doing

e.g.
9 bring code up to date
9:05 follow up on email conversation with rob about features x, y, and z
9:10 build tree
9:30 status meeting
10 work bugs
11 design architecture

or something like that...

When I found RT I was really excited because I thought, oh, I'll automate everything and I won't have to deal with the hassle! But, although it does a great job of tracking which applications I'm using, I can't keep track of the tasks that the time using those apps represents.

So, if I had a time stamp log of tasks I was doing, I'd like to be able to superimpose a graph of that data over RT's graphs of which applications I was using.

It would be nice if RT allowed me to create the log. I could right click on the tray and hit "start task" or something, and just enter whatever I was doing. Then, when I moved to a new task, I'd just do it again.

That way, I could even group certain apps together for a given task. Say, I use putty, firefox, and visual studio to develop websites, if I was using those 3 programs for 2 hours, I could tag that time as development time, or RT could even start doing that automatically too!

So I guess, basically I want to add tasks as well as tag apps, and I want a task logger.

Thanks for a great product.

Dallas Despain replied on February 04, 2008 14:49 to the idea "Feature Request: Treat untagged browsing as..." in RescueTime:

I think it would be good

Dallas Despain replied on February 01, 2008 21:25 to the question "How does RescueTime detect idleness? It didn't log all my hours yesterday and I was wondering what it's threshold was. Thanks, new user" in RescueTime:

I disagree. Although I appreciate how effortlessly and silently RescueTime tracks what you do on the computer, it really leaves out many of the possible time sinks in a given day.

Since the goal of this software is to help you "rescue" your time and be more productive, I think it's essential that it allow you to tag your idle time as well.

Say, I take a personal phone call, and my computer sits idle for 15 minutes. When I log back on, I would expect Rescue Time to ask me what I've been doing. That way, I can get an overall picture of my workday like AAV said.

This could be seen as intrusive, which is why this feature would have to be very customizable. Perhaps for some people a 15 minute distraction to productivity is not worth tracking, or perhaps, some people don't want to track idle time at all.

IMHO it is essential to track computer idle time so that I can say "from 1-2 I was in a meeting where we got x done" or something like that.

I really like RescueTime's web based approach, and I would highly recommend it to anyone, but If anyone wants to see how this feature would work, I've also used Sperical Timesheet, which had this feature and it worked well for me.