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RescueTime is nice, but if a majority of your time is used browsing a random number of domains (read documentation, blogs for problem x, procrastinate on slashd
by elai 18y ago
RescueTime is nice, but if a majority of your time is used browsing a random number of domains (read documentation, blogs for problem x, procrastinate on slashdot etc) it's gets hard to separate "productive browsing" and "unproductive browsing" without going through a large tedious list of websites every day. And even then, the same domain may be productive one day, and unproductive the next. Eventually you just find the benefit isn't really there and stop checking the website. And then eventually you stop the watcher application because it interferes with your computer usage or sometimes pings to %100 processor usage.
If you guys could solve the 200 random domains a day kind of problem (put all domains under 3 minutes in a 'random browsing' category, or you could add a 'i'm procrastinating' button), it might make RescueTime a useful application for me.
- ivankirigin 18y agoI can say for a fact a small minority of my time is spent on domains I don't bother tagging as waste or dev. If you are spending a lot of time on random domains, I think even considering rescuetime has identified a clear way to, err, rescue time.