ppgs's dashboard

I checked the detail. Here is the result:

- If I set my screen-saver to start after 3 minutes, then it will start after 3 minutes, even if I am in a conversation using Skype.
So it means that Skype reports to the system as idle, even if there is an on-going conversation.

- If I keep Skype as the active window and carry-on my conversation without moving the mouse, Rescue Time will record only the first 2 minutes activity, then assume that I am not using Skype anymore. How bizzare, since "2 minutes" has no meaning in this case!

- If I switch to Word just after starting the Skype conversation, while keeping talking on Skype, then the conversation in Skype is not logged any more in Rescue Time.

Conclusion: if I have a Skype conversation, it will be logged to its real length in Rescue Time only if I do not work on any other application than Skype, keep the focus on the Skype window, and keep moving my mouse around so as to simulate that the application is active!

In other words, Rescue Time does not record realistically the time spent on making phone calls in Skype. What a pitty...

My experience is that *concentric* pie charts is a great way to display information. For example, I use the freeware "Scanner" that displays concentric pie charts of my hard disk usage.

http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

A good thing about Scanner is that when you hover with the mouse over a slice, you get a tip text with very useful information about the slice (its size, etc.), but the tool remains 100% visual.

Scanner uses multilevel and this would work brilliantly for Rescue time: Tag1 being split between app1, app2, etc. It is a great way to immediately pinpoint which tag / application is most time consuming, etc. At a glance of an eye.

Excellent idea that developpers should consider. Because we do not spend the same number of hours in front of the PC everyday, percentage of RT time is more useful than absolute number of hours.

I am getting it for
http://getsatisfaction.com/people/41d...

Even if I look at other people's feed, the date info is embedded.

The initial question is about removing the data of all untagged apps, not websites. Could you answer the question, is this possible?

Another way is to make a whitelist for apps, just like there is one for websites. Could you make this a feature request?

Same request for me. I do not understand the point in Rescue Time to upload all window title information (in plain English: "file names"), if this information is made un-available in the dashboard, just sitting on Rescue Time's servers.

But for privacy issues, it is definitely better that all the tagging of files and folders is done locally on the machine by the Rescue Time Data Collector.
Instead of uploading

app_name: Photoshop
window_title: 'TopSecretClient_HomePageComp_01.psd'

then to upload

app_name: Photoshop
window_title: 'Work' (< - tags defined locally on the machine)

That would also reduce the amount of data uploaded to Rescue Time's servers, therefore reducing its costs (or allowing for more users for the same amount of servers).

Hi,

I installed rescue time and I must say that it does solve the privacy issue while keeping the interface straight forward and not bloated with options. Well done!

Still, I had something slightly different in mind. By checking "Do not record window titles", Rescue time only sends to the server the name of the app. As someone from you team suggested, there is more useful information than that.

For example, if I work with Microsoft Word, I may work on personal files, or work related files. I want to know the difference between the two.

As I am not confident sending to your servers the name on the files I work on, I would like the Rescue Time Data Collector to detect the category of file and then send that information to the server. In other words, instead of sending

window_title: 'unlisted'

I prefer

window_title: 'work'
or
window_title: 'personal'

Rescue Time Data collector uploads the data, then you make all the processing on the server. I prefer to make all the processing locally on my machine, and upload to the server only the processed information that I want to upload.

This requires tagging folders locally on the PC, not just defining tags on your server. Example:
- folder "D:\documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\Contracts" is "work"
- "D:\documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\Photos\Rome 2008"is "private"
- al other folders are "Other".

In fact, you already do this pretty well with websites and the whitelist. Rescue Time Data collector checks the site versus the whitelist and decides to upload the name or not, depending if it is in the list or not.

It would be nice if you could do the same for file and folder names (adding folder tagging).

Please give us more control over the data uploaded to your servers !