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First of all this is great product. But tagging Application/Sites takes too much time.
I have to look for each item and apply tag to it.

How about having some Filter/Search for Application/Site.
For example, www.microsoft.com and download.microsoft.com are same for me or any other URL that belong to microsoft.com.
Right now I have to go through entire list of un-tagged items and tag those.
it will be best if we can filter data by say "microsoft" that shows all Applications/Sites which has microsoft in it.

I have started to use this from past one week and I found it difficult to manage application tags, I believe web surfer like me will have hard time to tag sites.

Hi,

I use 2 different PCS and have a complete portable apps suite on my USB drive, ( courtesy http://portableapps.com/ ) so that my programs and settings go with me whereever I go !!!! ..
It would be great to have a portable version of the RescueTime Data Collector .. with everything ( settings, exe , logs ) at a single location..

- Mithun

Hi there!
Here is a suggestion that is really easy to implement and may lead to much more accurate stats:

In my work I have to often switch between reading and writing documents. I'd be typing for many minutes, but then I might not touch the keyboard (and mouse) for several minutes while reading. This is of course "work time". Currently RescueTime stops recording the time after (I think) 2 minutes. This way a lot of this reading time gets lost.

At the same time I have a lot of short distractions during which the time really IS idle. So how to distinguish between the two?

Say, we have the current threshold SHORT_TMOUT (of ca 2 mins) and another threshold LONG_TMOUT (of ca 10-15 mins or so). Now:

If the PC is idle for longer than SHORT_TMOUT but not as long as LONG_TMOUT, then RescueTime can assume that the user was actually reading (watching a YouTube video/listening to a track/whatever). In that case all the time should actually be counted towards the application in focus.

On the other hand, if the PC is idle for longer than SHORT_TMOUT, and is still idle after LONG_TMOUT, then RescueTime can assume that the user has really left the desk and all time beginning since the computer became idle can me miscounted.

You could also let the users set the idle thresholds so they can adapt them to their circumstances.

Btw, a great little tool you've got!

Cheers!

I'd like to be able to track time against my clients for billing purposes. It would be great if there could be a tray or sidebar application that I can click on to say what client I'm working for at any time (from a list that I can build myself) and then for any activity tracked during that time to be auto-tagged with the clients name. That way I can see how much time I'm spending working for each client and hopefully if hour-by-hour reporting is implemented I can use this information to prepare client billing.

How does one tag multi-discipline applications? For example, I use emacs for both software development and checking my email. The web browser is handled by tagging specific sites instead of the browser as a whole, but many other applications are also like a web browser in this respect. Sometimes used for work, sometimes used for play. Currently tags apply globally to an application, so it's always work _and_ play not work _or_ play.

Is there a way to tag specific time periods?

I think it would be great if RescueTime could detect which computer is sending the info if it is installed in several PCs, so the same aplication can be tagged differently based on the computer.
For example: I use RescueTime both at work and at home. I have different computers for both places, and similar applications installed. And I want RescueTime to allow me to tag Photoshop (for example) as "Work" if the info comes from my 1st computer and as "Entertainment" if it comes from the 2nd.

Cheers!

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