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To not have the dang window open and then minimize on startup, just have it like it was before open in the tray and stay in the tray. The window opening and minimizing during startup is driving me crazy when I have to reboot, it’s like a dang invasive popup from a website that opens and then minimizes, OR at least give us the option in the app to start minimized in the tray like it use to be.
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The latest version of our app should address this. Can you try downloading it and let us know if it fixes this?
How about some useful widgets for MacOS Sequoia which can now persistently exist on the desktop?
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In the RescueTime Assistant, it would be helpful if the Focus Alert prompt had a link directly back to ‘log your highlights’ page OR the ability to type highlights directly into the assistant without having to open the browser experience.
What have you gotten done today? Please log your highlights.
Thanks!
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I’ve checked assistent after a year and it seems bit cleaner, but there still obvious IMHO low hanging fruit:
Allow me to remove this. I am not planning to connect my calendar, so why show me this here?
The text here is useless after I see it for the first time. I don’t need to be reminded to use a Focus session or set a small goal. Also the visit distraction button can be just a link.
What’s the point of showing this?
I am testing updated session start and 2 issues:
- it still has too many steps which I tend to skip. Ideally I set task I am working on and go
- there should be an option to remember Project and probably task. I am working on the same project multiple days in row, sometimes multiple sessions for the same task. I have to pick project and task every session. Tracking should be much more seamless.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the feedback - the more streamlined experience hasn’t launched yet but will be coming shortly. This will make it much quicker and easier to get a Focus Session started.
Thanks!
JP
(RescueTime Classic user)
I know the Goals & Alerts page was just revamped, but is it possible to have some sort of sorting and/or grouping function here? I have a lot of custom alerts to help keep my momentum going throughout the work day, but I don’t understand how these alerts are sorted.
They seem to be sorted by category, but then they aren’t sorted by time. To edit or remove them, I need to check pretty carefully. I also have custom messages for each one and rely on these to differentiate them a lot, so I’d love to be able to see those more prominently instead of needing to edit the Alert.
Related to this, can Goals and Alerts be more integrated? If I have a goal to do 4h of a category of work, it makes sense to me to create Alerts more seamlessly in support of a goal, such as “1/4 hours, 2/4 hours” etc.
Another feature I would love is custom date ranges to view my reports. My invoicing period is on the same days of the month (from the 15th of Month A to the 14th of Month B, regardless of day of the week or number of days in the month), not over 30-day or 14-day periods. I take a little bit of time to review my logged hours and information when trying to view the invoice period for my work.
Hey coryl!
Thanks for the suggestions - I completely agree with you on the sorting. For those of use with many goals, it can get a little tough to sort through them. I have passed this on to the team and we’ll see if we can get something in place to make it easier.
On your point about incremental alerting, we actually just implemented a new feature that kind of addresses your point. While it’s not tied to goals, it does make it possible to have incremental updates. It looks like this:
Simply set the goal for say 1 hour, and set it to repeat 4 times. This will give you alerts every hour you reach up to 4. It’s not exactly what you describe, but removes the requirement to have 4 different alerts.
Regarding your question about date ranges… I have to ask - have you used the Timesheets feature in RescueTime yet? If you are keeping track of time for invoicing, you will love Timesheets. You can access it from the mode menu in the top left corner. Let me know!
Thanks!
JP
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Thanks for hearing me out on the sorting! Thank you for the suggestions as well.
The incremental alert sounds useful for some personal stuff, like writing sprints and distracting time, so I’ll definitely set it up for that! However, with my paid work, I rely on the custom messages to maintain momentum with my motivation. I used to have a simple “You’ve spent X minutes on work” alert every 30 minutes, which is how the incremental alerts would show up if I’m understanding it. But they became background information, so I changed the alerts to show a custom encouragement message to myself (for novelty and reminders to take breaks) and to tell myself to how much I earned after each time check (much more motivating to see a bigger number each time instead of “You’ve earned another X dollars” that would appear with the incremental alert; plus I don’t have to do math, lol).
I’m really overwhelmed by Timesheets. If I were still freelancing, I’d set it up more thoroughly as it would definitely fit most digital freelancing gigs, but it doesn’t align with the type of independent contractor work I’m doing now. I’ve just spent about an hour setting it up and I’m running into barriers that make me stop.
The main issues are that my work is not based on Projects and Clients (piece rate work for one client), and my client’s finance department has an invoice template I must use to record how many interactions I completed along with the hours for the day. I haven’t found a way to get RescueTime to track those interactions automatically, and my tasks are assigned to me rather than something I could set up easily in Timesheets Tasks.
However, Timesheets also has a few things that aren’t working for me even if I did have Projects and Clients. Maybe I’ve done something wrong for some of these.
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It lists so many activities/categories that I need to edit; this isn’t a good use of my time because I’ve already categorized billable activities as Focus Work exclusively. There’s no sorting, such as Mobile Time (almost always not billable) or Writing or a “remove all” to help me narrow things down. Showing all the Neutral and Personal Work activities here feels counterintuitive.
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There are activities based on people’s names in URLs/Google Docs and Sheets, which will get very cumbersome with some of the very common names in the work files I’m accessing. I didn’t add these in anywhere, so I’m not sure how they showed up (the AI maybe?), but I don’t want it to list “john” (hypothetical) as an activity that I need to de-select. It also listed “Unknown” but I have no context for what this is, like where it appears in Timesheets or Analytics (couldn’t find it when searching by keyword in Analytics and there’s no search function in Timesheets), and I don’t know if I should have it visible or hidden…
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Projects aren’t billable in partial numbers; my client set my rate in dollars and cents. I could change the number in the default Timesheets settings to a partial number, but that section also doesn’t save the currency I set and keeps reverting back to USD. (Side note, my profile country is Canada, but the time zone on my profile says America - New York and only shows America - Toronto when I click on it.)
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Manually reviewing and saving the information is not necessary for me. It also shows activities that are categorized as Distracting (pink in the screenshot; Focus Work is yellow), so I’m not sure what’s going on.
If it were easier to merge Analytics’ categories with Timesheets, I’d be more likely to use Timesheets, but my first impression is that it looks like a lot of time to set up. That wouldn’t be an issue with a new user, but I have years of activities and categorizing that I’ve already done and don’t need to change around.
My Analytics categories track this work nearly perfectly. I’m just redoing all that time spent on categorizing activities by integrating it into Timesheets in order to track it, export it in an Excel document, and then fill in my company’s timesheet the same way I was doing it with Analytics only: review hours tracked in RescueTime, count up interactions in the Google Workspace files. If I could track Google Workspace use based on Google account (as in, anything signed in on my email would be Personal and anything with my company-provided email would be Focus Work) or even if it was Chrome vs Opera (AKA all Chrome Google Docs activity is work and all Opera Google Docs activity is personal), my Analytics would be perfect.
The date range in timesheets is much better than the Analytics section though. My goal is to see my overall productivity in a holistic way, not just the billable hours, so viewing them in Analytics gives me context for why I worked the hours I did. The Timesheets date range function would be great in Analytics!
FYI. I tried Trello integration, so I can track my tasks easier, instead of manually duplicated tasks I already created in my Trello tasks board. Unfortunately it doesn’t integrate with the current RescueTime assistant on macos. It works with Web UI , but UI is cumbersome and ofc not going to use Web UI to start session.
Trello (or other tasks management) isn’t as important to me, just please make starting focus session to track project/ tasks easier.
A revamped mobile app please. My phone is by far the most distracting device I have, so alerts being sent to my phone is more useful than being sent to my email (I have email notifications turned off because notifications are generally distracting). Seeing reports and adjusting goals in the app are also on my wishlist.
For the new repeatable alerts, I’d love the notification to tell me how many times it’s been triggered/sent. I’ve been trying it out the last few weeks, and while setting it up was easy and intuitive, the alert telling me a maximum of 10 times doesn’t help for the 11th time because I’ve lost track of how often I’ve gotten distracted.
I’d like the alerts to help raise my awareness of how often I’m getting distracted; while I can go check how many times it has alerted me, it would make more sense for the app to just tell me it’s the 1st time, 2nd time, or 1/5, 2/5 etc. I don’t use alerts to enable focus sessions/block categories because it feels like punishment instead of mindfulness, so overall, I’d like to see Alerts be more robust than “Start a focus session or block distractions when this happens.”
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Task integration with TickTick would be great, as would most any and all integrations with other productivity tools (Notion, Clockify, etc.).
I’m using RT to track nearly everything in life so:
- I’d like to be able to remove irrelevant Categories so I can clean up Reporting for my specific use-cases. Otherwise, I’m having to force myself to categorize into options that don’t quite fit.
- I’d like to be able to edit Personal Category - right now it doesn’t show up when I got to Manage Categories
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Hi there, I was wondering if there is a way to set when our “day” begins and end. Often times we sleep past midnight. But it’s practically the same day. So it would be great if we can have option to start the day’s fresh logging from let’s say 2AM instead of 12AM by default.
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Any plans to add projects / tasks to API. I Use the Raycasts extension by @kyle. And I would like to be able to track what I working on during session. It would be so much easier if I can just type it into raycast.
A Firefox extension that works on Android would be great since right now there is no way to allow for website granularity on android