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Channel: RescueTime Features and Updates Archive – RescueTime Blog
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Protip: Keeping track of “sometimes productive” sites…

One of our users just wrote in a feature request: “…sometimes overall efficiency as measured between “productive” and “unproductive” applications/websites is a poor measure. For example I spend a lot...

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New on Rescuetime.com. When are you in the zone?

Are you a morning person? More of a night owl? We just pushed out a nifty little thing that will help you figure it out. For a while now, we’ve had the concept of an “efficiency score” in RescueTime....

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New on RescueTime.com, Compare your most and least productive days

We’d like to introduce you to a new idea we’ve been playing around with for the past few weeks. We want to make RescueTime even easier for discovering interesting insights about your behavior. Today,...

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RescueTime ProTip: Blocking distracting websites with Focused Time!

To start Focused Time!: Click (or right-click) the RescueTime icon in your system-tray (win) or menubar (os x) Select “Get Focused!” Enter a time period to focus for Note: Focused Time! is only...

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Taming email overload, the RescueTime way

Note: For more about email overload, check out this post, where we discuss some of the root causes and several strategies for dealing with it. We’ve known for a while that communications can be a huge...

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Welcome Wakoopa Social Users

2012-08-12: Import your Wakoopa data to RescueTime Dear Wakoopa Social Users, We wanted to take this time to introduce ourselves as a potential home for previous Wakoopa Social users. When we launched...

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Updates to offline time logging

For a while, RescueTime Pro users have had the ability to log short amounts of time via our offline time prompt. This works great in many cases. It’s automatic, has a small cognitive load, and is...

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New group-wide dashboard for RescueTime Team Version

One of the best things about RescueTime is it’s ability to help people make smart choices about their time. We think that self-directed, creative workers in the information economy should have the best...

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New beta feature: Turn any RescueTime report into a live-updating widget

Have you ever wanted to keep a closer eye on the time you’re spending in a specific category or activity throughout the day? This week we rolled out a new beta feature that makes it easier. If you...

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Breaking down the RescueTime productivity score

The RescueTime productivity score is a way of looking at your time based on the productivity level you’ve assigned to the various activities that you’ve logged time for. It’s a way to boil your time...

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RescueTime for Android adds Website Reporting

(Firefox users: up vote this if you want support on Firefox for Android: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908224) We just pushed an update for our Android app that adds the ability to...

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Meet the new RescueTime – the big list of new features

The past few months have been really busy and exciting over here at RescueTime! We recently launched a completely redesigned version of the RescueTime.com for our individual users with over 30 new...

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RescueTime handling of Heartbleed SSL bug

This week, a security vulnerability known as the Heartbleed bug was discovered to be affecting major websites across the internet. RescueTime’s servers have been updated to address this issue. All...

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Getting the most out of RescueTime’s website-blocking features

The ability to block distracting websites is one of my favorite parts of RescueTime Premium. It’s so easy to keep bouncing over to momentary distractions when I’m trying to stay focused, and if I’m...

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Highlights – a new way to keep track of the meaningful things you’ve...

With so much going on every day, how do you keep track of what you accomplished? A little over a year ago, we quietly added a little feature to RescueTime Premium called daily highlights. It was...

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Time reports update: Breaking out Google docs and Office Online by app

Hi folks, We just made a change to how we record time spent in Google Docs and Office Online. You will now be able to see the type of document you’re spending time on, instead of just having everything...

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February updates: Smarter website categorization, video tracking, email...

We’ve pushed a bunch of new improvements out this month. We’ve been able to boost performance, add new features, and address some of our most long-standing support requests. Happy slightly-late...

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How to use the new RescueTime IFTTT channel to stay focused and productive

Big news! We launched a channel on IFTTT this week, and it opens up a bunch of different possibilities for using your RescueTime data with your favorite apps and devices. If you’re unfamiliar, IFTTT...

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A RescueTime feature you should know more about: Highlights

Even though I’ve used RescueTime for years, I’ve barely explored its power beyond what’s on the surface. Since joining the RescueTime team in January I’ve realised there are lots of powerful features I...

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Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime, passed away July 4th 2017

We are sad to report the passing of Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime, after a long battle with cancer.

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