Hello! I, like the people above, also had problems with syncing on November 2-4. Since I was using an old version of RescueTime 2.x, I decided to try updating to a newer version and installed version 3.2.3.2. This was done on November 2. Since then, the amount of time that RescueTime logs has dropped significantly. On average, I had 40-50 hours per week. After the update, RescueTime logs 25-35 hours per week, which is obviously underestimated. It looks like the new version has a new activity detection algorithm. And looks like that this algorithm contains problemsā¦
Some data for illustration:
10.14 - 10.20: 43h 49m
10.21 - 10.27: 47h 11m
10.28 - 11.03: 33h 7m
11.04 - 11.10: 30h 17m
11.11 - 11.17: 28h
Hey Plonti,
Thatās unusual - honestly, the newer versions of the app are much BETTER at tracking time. I will shoot you DMā¦Iād like to help you with this and understand exactly what might be going on.
Thanks.
JP
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RescueTime has an unknown app version. In āAdd or Remove Programsā or winget the version is appended to the name and not the metadata, unlike other apps. This prevents me from auto upgrading via winget update --all since the version is unknown.
Images are in this gist here since I canāt upload more than one: rescuetime bug report.md Ā· GitHub
Hey shazron,
Thanks for posting thisā¦ we will look into it for the next build we distribute.
JP
Repeatable alerts arenāt sending at the right time? It could just be the lag between my mobile time and the server (something Iāve experienced for quite a long time, which impacts the relevance of desktop alerts).
However, Iāve spent an hour only in Productive time and gotten multiple alerts that I was in Very Distracting time. According to my Dashboard and the Timesheets view, I wasnāt in any distracting time after 11:20, yet I got three more of my 10-minute alerts that I was in distracting time.
Iām finding the repeatable alerts to be less useful than I had hoped. With the delay between the mobile app and the server, Iām inclined to turn off alerts again to avoid getting a cascade of irrelevant alerts. Itās likely it just sent the 10-minute ādistractingā alerts once it got the data from my phone time 12 hours ago and synchronized with my desktop.
the image is personal report.
How could there be 10 hours on the picture? Iām confused.
this is the team report url, but team only have one personal.
My guess would be you have more than one device logging data and some of those hours have more than 1 hour of time in them. If you hover over the bars, you can see how much time in each hourā¦ I am assuming some of them say more than 1 hr.
JP
Yes, that is likely precisely what happened, Mobile data is much less reliable in terms of real-time sync. Desktop data syncs every couple of minutes. So you likely got a mobile sync that added a bunch of distracting time and triggered the alert.
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