Comments on: Rescue Time: Automated Time Management meets Web 2.0

By: Tony Wright lying

Tony Wright lying — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:38:29 +0000

http://www.tech...comment-2533037

By: owen

owen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:42:37 +0000

Rescue time is a very good product, but a little limtied, in some ways, made the switch to Journallive, http://www.journallive.com and have seen an increase in my productivity, I find the reports in Journal live are easier to undstand and offer me a better way to correct my bad habits and inrease my effectiveness

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Rescue your time « Talent Alchemy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:00:10 +0000

[...] also reviewed Rescue Time and announced some interesting recent aggregate user stats. There is a Rescue Time blog for more [...]

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By: Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup for Spring 2008

Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup for Spring 2008 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:13:26 +0000

[...] RescueTime RescueTime helps individuals and businesses track how they spend their time at the computer, and consequently, find ways to become more productive. The web-based dashboard charts application and website usage over long periods of time and shows you whether you’ve been reaching your goals. So far, 278 businesses have signed up for RescueTime for a total of 26,132 seats. See our review from last May here. [...]

By: YogSothoth

YogSothoth — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:48:54 +0000

You missed the point with LifeHacker.

The correct domain name is lifehacker.com, not wwwlifehacker.com.

By: Kavoir

Kavoir — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:32:42 +0000

At first glance, I thought it was a web traffice logger. Hmmm, time management upon web 2.0. Just don’t quite think so. If I have the willing to pursue an efficient living fashion, I wouldn’t have bothered to get to here to know about some time management gadgets. Really.

By: 100K-IT-Jobs

100K-IT-Jobs — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:23:32 +0000

This is good for time management. Really cool.

rajan

By: Gal Josefsberg

Gal Josefsberg — Sat, 05 May 2007 22:58:45 +0000

That’s pretty neat. I’ve tried out a number of online time and task management tools, but the time required to set them up and keep them up to date is always greater than the time they save me. Maybe this one will be different.

http://www.60in3.com

By: AtliB

AtliB — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:34:12 +0000

TimeSnapper (http://www.timesnapper.com) is a similar program that tracks all the programs you’re working with to help with the timesheets (along with taking snapshots – so it’s easy to analyze the days). It however doesn’t publish anything to the internet exactly because of privacy concerns.

The next version due to be released later this month has exactly the same statistical features

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:28:37 +0000

I think tracking your time is an AMAZING way to ferret out efficiencies. I like the feature where you can set your goals because one big part of time management is planning what you are going to do.

I used to run 10 projects at a time in my previous job and had to report time on them in increments of 15 minutes. I would just open up my calendar and block off the time I spent right after I did it. Then at the end of the week i’d have to spend 30 minutes gathering all the data into a spreadsheet.

For me, and for a lot of people I know, time tracking is project/client based. I see a huge need to be able to tell this program how to tell the difference in what project/client i’m working on. If it did this effectively it would probably have saved me at least a couple hours a week in reporting time.

Perhaps the user could just click a hotkey or something to tell the software to you are starting work on Project A, then another to tell it you started working on Project B. So you just keep telling it every time you switch to working on another project. That would work great since you would know within Project A, how much time you spent on each application. I really hope they build that feature in.

Otherwise knowing I spent 3 hours on voip, 2 hours on excel, 3 hours on word, and 2 hours on outlook is only marginally helpful.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:40:05 +0000

An application that does this already is Qlockwork from http://www.qlockwork.com

Qlockwork writes your attention data into an Outlook calendar – which for my security conscious employer is much more acceptable than uploading it to a website would be.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Sat, 05 May 2007 07:27:11 +0000

I signed up. While Big Brother watching might be an issue at work, this app could be useful in another way in corporate environments. I know that I have run into too many IT staff people who want to tell me what apps I should be using to do my job or how many apps/windows I should have running at any one time. Their logic being if they think I only use these x apps and like too many people, run them one at a time in full screen mode, then I don’t need my computer upgraded with a newer OS, more memory, a better graphics card or whatever.

Now, if this app works, it could trace what applications someone is using and could be a point of justification for an upgrade. I wonder if it can show how many application windows are open at any one time?

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:56:38 +0000

Another good one I’ve found…

http://www.tickspot.com/

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 May 2007 04:23:27 +0000

Sounds like a brilliant idea. Does it give me the option to expose some of my data or reports to others? e.g. If I’m a consultant, can I show one of my clients how much time I spent on their project, or selected parts of their project?

By: Tony Wright

Tony Wright — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:45:42 +0000

Hey Zoli- RescueTime pays attention to individual sites that you spend your time on. It treats your favorite web application just like it treats any other web application!

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:31:49 +0000

Thanks Zoli, although I’m not sure the anonymous spelling nazis would agree

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:29:45 +0000

The foundation is quite similar to Wakoopa, based on tracking application usage. But what happens to us Office 2.0-converts, whose only app is FireFox?

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:23:46 +0000

Duncan, nice to see you here

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:10:33 +0000

ok, fixed and thanks.

By: Adam Healey

Adam Healey — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:05:40 +0000

Lex,

Was the typo in your comment above intentionally ironic?

By: smokey

smokey — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:03:59 +0000

i’m wasting my time reading this

By: whoopee

whoopee — Sat, 05 May 2007 02:57:14 +0000

at first i thought this was another attempt to commercialize ntp, but its not even that lame

will it break down my porn surfing by bestiality, watersports, and bestial-watersports? here’s hoping it does

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 05 May 2007 02:57:04 +0000

While a distrubted time management tool sounds interested, I suggest that you, Duncan, should investigate a distrubted spell-checking tool.

This is the second post with mistakes in one day…