DISQUS

Joe Hruska · 1 year ago

I can't tell you how excited this make me that we've got people hacking RescueTime. You might say, "it's hard to overstate my satisfaction..." ;)

Angus Helm with his Linux data collector and your simple app to add meeting and phone time into the data stream is just awesome.

We are in a seriously busy development cycle through the end of March and will have a lot of new features and enhancements coming in the next few weeks. My personal goal for the RescueTime data collectors is to provide an open system (potentially opened source) for plug-in types of features just like this one.

Thanks Carlo!

Carlo Zottmann · 1 year ago

You're welcome! Thanks for th kind words and the link back from the official blog. I appreciate it. :)

Cheers from Munich,
Carlo

Lars Trieloff · 1 year ago

Thank you for this cool feature. I figure adding this as a quicksilver plugin would be quite easy.

Carlo Zottmann · 1 year ago

Probably. I've switched to Launchbar a few weeks ago, tho. ;)

I have a big keyboard with extra keys, and just put the app on one of these. Beats everything else...

curtis klope · 1 year ago

This is a great app. Someone needs to create something like this for windows... I would if I knew how.

Dan Butcher · 1 year ago

Great script! Thanks for making it public.

I wanted to add some buttons for other off-line tasks like reading and grading (I'm a teacher), but when I edited the script, I got an error saying that only three buttons are allowed. I couldn't find a place in the script where that was specified--could you point me to the piece of code I would need to modify so that I can add more buttons?

Thanks in advance--

Carlo Zottmann · 1 year ago

Dan, I believe the 3 is the actual maximum number of buttons an OSX dialog can have. So I think it's actually an enforced restriction from the OS itself. :/

I might be wrong, tho.

Dan Butcher · 1 year ago

Too bad--but that makes sense. I replaced "cancel" with one of my choices. It occurs to me that I could duplicate and rename the script for a second set of options.

Monkeyget · 1 year ago

I just finished a "Windows Port":http://monkeyget.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/push-all-your-activities-to-rescuetime/

Carlo Zottmann · 1 year ago

Nicely done. :)

jln · 1 year ago

It's a very nice hack ! Discovered it via the Linux rescuetime collector website. (I use it on my eeePC, nice addition to my Macs)

But the fact is, I use rescuetime because I not very good at tracking the exact time I spend at a task.

So I'd rather have it the other way :

- before the task, I'd start the script -- that would log the start time
- on hitting stop it would log the stop time
- and prompt me for the name of the task -- maybe with a predefined list.

I'll try to re-hack your hack to a version doing that.


PS : A maybe even better way would be to detect when you are idle, and prompt you
"what are doing now ?".

anne · 1 year ago

Thanks! I ended up getting around the three button constraint by creating one app for each tag, and I pull those up with Quicksilver. Does the trick. Was about to give up on RescueTime until they added this functionality, as I am often at my most productive away from my computer. Now I don't have to!

Daniel Goepp · 1 year ago

I like this, but it is subject to your estimation. Have you considered adding a timer to this? Phone rings, run the app, click start...talk...talk...talk...hang up, click stop. That way, it is not your estimation. I rarely remember how long I was on the phone or in a meeting.

Carlo Zottmann · 1 year ago

> Have you considered adding a timer to this?

No. My phone's display shows the duration of each call, and I can usually tell how long my meetings were. :) The trick (for me) is instantly logging those times in.

Works for me.

Curtis Abbott · 1 year ago

Does this still work OK? I have MacOSx.5 and have tried multiple times over multiple days and the time does not display anywhere.

I would love to be able to use this.

Carlo Zottmann · 1 year ago

No idea, sorry… I've stopped using RT about half a year ago. :(

Dan, CEO, PackageWebDeals · 11 months ago

Any reason why? Just considereing using it in conjunction with your script. I'm on Leopard OSX

Carlo Zottmann · 11 months ago

I had finally figured out where all my time went, and that was that. :)

I might start picking it up again in the near future, what with being self-employed now, but right now, I don't need it.

Kelvin · 12 months ago

I am using FruitfulTime ProductivityMeter (www.fruitfultime.com). It's windows only though.

Carl Mercier · 5 months ago

Can you release the source to this please? It doesn't work for me as my RT files are stored in a new location. Seems like the new version of RT saves them somewhere else now. Thanks!

Carlo Zottmann · 5 months ago

Sure thing. It's just an AppleScript, packaged into an app using Platypus (http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus), after all.

Here's the script itself: http://gist.github.com/147548

manj · 1 year ago

Why would I want to share my data with RescueTime people?
No way...