>...it’s a useless tool. I don’t like collaborating with chronic liars who aren’t able to openly point out knowledge gaps...
I think a more correct take here might be "it's a tool that I don't trust enough to use without checking," or at the very least, "it's a useless tool for my purposes." I understand your point, but I got a little caught up on the above line because it's very far out of alignment with my own experience using it to save enormous amounts of time.
Thanks! We decided we’d give existing users the choice to upgrade because it’s quite different. If you want to migrate your account, you can do it from here: https://www.rescuetime.com/new_rescuetime
It’s a webview that runs a super small HTML page with vanilla Javascript. (No electron!) We looked and it’s not noticeably larger of a runtime footprint as the old version.
Thanks for sticking with us! We've just hired someone to help with our Windows app who loves linux, so look for improvements to both of those in the future. Right now we're very focused on new features for our new version. Which you won't be able to try unless you migrate your account. You can do that from here http://www.rescuetime.com/new_rescuetime
(but please note that it's quite a bit different - although you can see your old dashboard after you migrate by going to /dashboard)
Sorry about that - pricing is $12/month or $78 if paid annually. We're going to add it back to the site - it was on the old version of the account create page before we added the new survey and we legit didn't think about it.
Thanks for your comment - really glad to have you over the years!
I will say that lots of what you’re describing doesn’t exist in a form you’re used to in the new version, so you might not want to switch just yet. The good news is it’s a manual process to upgrade, so if you don’t want to switch you don’t have to do anything and things will stay the same for you.
In short we track the name of the application you're using, and the window title OR the URL of the website you're on (if you're in a recognized browser). We query the OS to detect what's in focus and whether or not the computer has gone idle to track time spent on a particular thing. We also use crowdsourced data collected over the years to understand what categories applications and websites are (meeting tools, communication tools, design/coding/business tools, etc.)
All of our data is never used individually, only analyzed in aggregate in an anonymized way. We're compliant with GDPR rules.
Here's our privacy policy for more information: https://www.rescuetime.com/privacy
You’re describing my own situation, exactly. The years when I wasn’t at RescueTime I ran into problems like this and part of the reason why I wanted to help redesign the app was because it just wasn’t helping me out with these problems. Thank you for sharing your story.
Thanks for this. Yeah, it’s definitely entirely different. The transition is going to be tricky at first for folks used to the old version but so far it seems to be making sense to new people. Thanks for those notes. iCal is something we can technically support but it doesn’t post changes to webhooks so you’d have to manually sync every time. :/
It's true and it often depends on things like company size (2 hours or less for large companies, 3-4 hours for small startups) and role (managers are lucky to hit 2 and ICs can usually get to 3 when they're not in meetings all day).
I think a more correct take here might be "it's a tool that I don't trust enough to use without checking," or at the very least, "it's a useless tool for my purposes." I understand your point, but I got a little caught up on the above line because it's very far out of alignment with my own experience using it to save enormous amounts of time.