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Portable version of RescueTime
Has RescueTime been designed with portability in mind?
My goal is to have rescueTime on my USB key, and run it from the USB, without leaving anything on the host PC (no change of registry, no left files). No need to install Rescue Time on every PC that I am using. Note: I never use 2 or more PCs at the same time, it is either work or home PCs at different times.
By running RescueTime from a USB device, I can really track my time on the PC, not the time of the PC itself (at home, I use the same XP account for several people, being lazy creating separate user accounts....).
I know that VMWare ThinApp gives a way to make any application portable (example: Microsoft Word, etc). I have not tried it yet with RescueTime, I would like to know first if RescueTime (the data collector) is a portable app in the first place, or will be in the near future.
My goal is to have rescueTime on my USB key, and run it from the USB, without leaving anything on the host PC (no change of registry, no left files). No need to install Rescue Time on every PC that I am using. Note: I never use 2 or more PCs at the same time, it is either work or home PCs at different times.
By running RescueTime from a USB device, I can really track my time on the PC, not the time of the PC itself (at home, I use the same XP account for several people, being lazy creating separate user accounts....).
I know that VMWare ThinApp gives a way to make any application portable (example: Microsoft Word, etc). I have not tried it yet with RescueTime, I would like to know first if RescueTime (the data collector) is a portable app in the first place, or will be in the near future.
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Inappropriate?The current version of RescueTime relies on the .Net framework and places configuration and logging files in the Microsoft "approved/suggested" locations.
We are deep in the development of the next generation of the RescueTime client. The new version is not dependent on .Net and we will give more flexibility as to where configuration and logging files can be located. In theory, that should allow you to run RescueTime from a single directory located on a portable storage device and not leave any files or registry settings on the computer itself.
I've added this to the "wish list" for the new RescueTime.
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Inappropriate?manually logging time spent away from the PC using an iphone app would be a great workaround to this but i also get the USB idea for those that use multiple machines. i dont.
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