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I stumbled upon a RescueTime article a while ago. Was impressed, but assumed it might be quite difficult to incorporate into my daily routine. And I let it pass. Till recently, when I spotted it on another review and decided to give it a go. It begins with a registration and a small application you install on every machine you use. It goes without saying you need an internet connection to relay your usage data to its mothership. I’ve presently got the app on my laptop and it mostly tracks my mail, movies, web-surfing and the very occasional freelance work project. I do plan to install the monitoring app on my work PC as well. Once the RescueTime site has enough data to generate and present a table, you have the ability to “tag” it. For e.g., I’ve tagged my Quicktime player application with Entertainment, Acrobat with Reading, SketchUp and AutoCAD with Work and so on. The only problem I initially see is the minor mis-representation of some projects. For instance, if I’m probably just going over a form, checking out a project related brochure in PDF format on Acrobat Reader; they all get tagged with “Reading” when I would rather have them tagged as Work. But I guess, over an extended period of time, if you primarily use the app for the tagged use, it would even itself out. You keep a tab on your data at the Dashboard with a lovely graph that shows you where you’ve been spending your time. I might have hoped for some more control in the way the data is represented. I might have also hoped to have the facility to download the gathered data. In whatever format that might allow me to use it with other applications like Excel or Numbers.
Ah well, its all good for the moment. Here’s a snapshot of what I’ve been up to this past year.
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I found your site on google blog search and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. Just added your RSS feed to my feed reader. Look forward to reading more from you.
- Sue.
Thank you, Sue. One tries to please.