RescueTime

Excellent product for like me people that do not manage time properly

Vorteile:

I am a tech-savvy person, and I like to research new technology more than 5+ hours are spent on this and I can't manage how many hours of the day I watch YouTube videos or watch Netflix Web Series, for a very long time I can't monitor my spending time And one of my favorite Youtuber is talking about Rescue Time. That helps them to manage their time and then I wondered why not I would also start to use and now, it has helped me to know how I spend my time and give insight full information about them, And I can just try to modify my time spending structure and get most out of the time.

Nachteile:

Great product can't find any cons for this software

Frictionaless Time Tracking

Kommentare: I primarily use it to understand and track my own efficiency and make sure that what I am actually doing aligns with my strategic and operational directives.

Vorteile:

It works in the background, I don't need to remember to turn it on or off. No need to disposition time regularly so it doesn't interfere with organic or non-linear workflows. I can go back and disposition all at once at the end of the day or very few days.

Nachteile:

Update frequency seems high and sometimes the update pop-up is intrusive.

The tool of champions!

Vorteile:

RescueTime is an absolutely brilliant time tracking tool. It has given me a very simple but accurate tool for tracking exactly how much time I spend on projects. It's brilliant because it tracks time by app but also by websites visited. So I can include research time and reading time into the time I spend on projects. It tracks multiple devices which is great because I tend to switch between devices when working on projects. It's non intrusive and runs completely silently in the background with a simple weekly email and all data available via the mobile app.

Nachteile:

It would be great to set up project and task tracking within the app so we can group our activities.

Consistently great, but dangerous for managers

Kommentare: I've used RescueTime for years. It's the ultimate in "set and forget" software. Essentially it sits on your computer and silently watches your productivity, totaling up the time you spend doing actual work and the time you spend goofing off. At the end of the week you get a nice little email report telling you how you did. It does a great job not shaming you when you do poorly, as I have many times. When you have a really productive week, however, it rewards you by documenting that fact.

Vorteile:

Provides a great little nudge to remind you that when you're on your computer working, you should, be, like, working... the free offering is excellent, allowing you do a semi-deep dive into your data, seeing what you're doing most and helping you improve

Nachteile:

The software is great, and the portal too, but the thing I worry about most is this sort of thing getting in the hands of (bad) developer managers, who might use it to spy on their employees, firing the least "productive" ones. Truly, everyone needs a break now and then, so it worries me a bit that this powerful program could fall into the wrong hands. "With great power comes great responsibility", that sort of thing.. The other thing is the feature set has not changed much in recent years. Subtle improvements could go along way... for instance, I wish it could help me with is filling in my timesheet each week. Imagine if it could tell me which solutions i have open most often in VS Code, for example, and I could charge my time to each project.

My favorite solution for seeing where time is spent

Kommentare: Easiest way to track productivity and time spent across applications/categories.

Vorteile:

Rescuetime automatically tracks and categorizes the activities of you and your team. It makes it easy to see what areas and applications you might be spending more time in than expected. The weekly report emails are great and the productivity score is a nice way to get a glance at productivity vs previous months.

Nachteile:

I would like if there was a different way to categorize specific files from different projects into projects within rescuetime. There may be a way to make a solution like this happen with the current features, but if I could tag certain portions of time towards specific projects it would give me further insight not only on the type of work I am doing (development, communication), but into the specific project that time was spent on. This is a small niche need though and it hasn't stopped me from using Rescuetime.

Cannot recommend this enough.

Kommentare: This is the first thing I install in all my new machines and browsers, the information it provides is invaluable and really eye-opening, and really worth the low price-tag honestly. I really recommend this for anyone looking to improve their productivity.

Vorteile:

The amount of information that this gathers is just mindblowing, being available on everything is just awesome. The automatic categorization for apps works most of the time. Then there are the vast amount of integrations it offers. This is the best time tracking software I have used, which just gets better with time.

Nachteile:

Re-categorizing activities is somewhat convoluted, I've had to bookmark the page honestly so I can get to it quickly. The focus sessions are a neat feature but it needs to be more robust as it is quite easy to circumvent.

Identify & highlight distractions

Kommentare: I had experienced a drop in my income as a self-employed consultant. I felt that I was always busy, but was billing less, and this software made it clear to me that I was indeed busy all day, but on many distractions that were not contributing to income or projects, but were costing time and my energy.
RescueTime put me back on track, and I have stayed there for the past two years.
Savings/earnings are of the order per annum, I kid you not.

Vorteile:

This software helped me to objectively and quantitatively identify which distractions were doing most damage to my daily income. By seeing it in front of me and putting against it, I was able to instantly cut those activities out completely or minimise them.

Nachteile:

No cons, really. The software is unobtrusive, not pushy, it just does its thing well.

Great tool to time tracking

Kommentare: I use daily rescuetime to track my time. It categorize the time by software you are log in. It shows me how I use my time

Vorteile:

The time tracking is easy. It has a good UI and categorize automatically the tools used in the PC

Nachteile:

More reports in free plan. Better app from mobile devices

The stats will surprise you

Kommentare: Definitely worth it.

Vorteile:

Rescuetime has mostly helped me whittle down little time sinks that I was unaware of. For example, it turned out I spent 30 minutes a day selecting songs on iTunes; now I have a playlist on shuffle and do not actively use iTunes anymore to select my music during the work day. Rescuetime has often surprised me by showing stats being very different from how I perceived them. It can also be motivated to see a highly productive day unfolding and feeling competitive with yourself.

Nachteile:

Currently Rescuetime cannot distinguish browser tabs in Firefox. Other apps like Timedoctor can, so I'm sure Rescuetime could fix this if they'd commit to it.

Great automatic activity tracker, with only the limitations of that approach

Kommentare: RescueTime is a very well-designed solution for automatic activity tracking; I am just no longer really convinced that this is the right approach (for me). The focus on applications (not projects) makes the collected data of limited value (for me). I still use it, since it is free and doesn't hurt, but I am not relying on the collected data for analyzing my working patterns anymore

Vorteile:

Tracks what you work one completely automatically, reliably records all applications used, gives automatic ratings how “productive” certain applications are

Nachteile:

Updating the Linux client could be smoother / better automated.

Keeps track of what you are doing automatically (and how long...)

Kommentare: I'm happy with that tools. It helps me keep track of working hours per project.

Vorteile:

The ease of use is the best of that tool. Without having to remember to start a task or something, it silently records what you are doing in the background.

Nachteile:

Sometimes (but rarely...) it can be difficult to assign a recorded activity to a certain project. That happens at times with many simultaneous projects of a similar kind for which I have to use the same tools.

RescueTime helps you manage the most limited resource you have.

Vorteile:

I love that RescueTime is both easy to use, requiring very little setup, and also infinitely customizable, meaning that over time you can mold it to exactly what you want it to be doing. For instance, in tracking how productively you are using your time, it already knows that certain websites are distracting and certain ones are productive, but if your work requires you to spend some time on a specific "distracting" website, you can re-categorize it as needed to capture that.

Nachteile:

I have very few complaints about RescueTime. I feel like it does everything I need it to do. If anything, I wish the free version had more features, but I am more than happy to pay for the premium version to get the features I need.

The Best Productivity Tracker

Kommentare: RescueTime is a great tool and a very necessary one to automatically measure and monitor how and what you spend your time on

Vorteile:

RescueTime is a very straightforward and easy to use time tracker as you just download the time tracking app onto your laptop or android device and it does the rest. It fits in well with our current requirement as it silently and automatically records time spent on each application in the background. The feature that we enjoyed the most is the fact that you get to see a complete picture of your productive and non productive time, this is all categorised automatically and it is very accurate. In addition, you get a dashboard online for you to visualise your activity. It greatly helped us to improve how we spent our time.

Nachteile:

As an improvement, a feature that might be required is one to categorise certain activities viewed as non productive as productive. Additionally, support to integrate the logged hours with a billing tool will be very handy

A glance at productivity

Vorteile:

The ease of use and automated sorting buckets make it really easy to set up. I also love how seamlessly my account works between browsers and my two different computers. It makes me not have to worry about syncing data manually to prevent double-counting time.

Nachteile:

There isn't much else you can do on the free tier of this product outside of seeing visualizations of usage. Though this is benefitial on its own, there were other pieces of software I needed to use in order to take action on the behavior I wanted to change/improve.

No more asking where your spend your time

Vorteile:

I really like that I can see where I spend - or waste - most of my time.

Nachteile:

I would really appreciate if it was translated in a few other languages, like French. It would make it easier for me to recommend it to my French speaking friends.

Great for finding "time leaks" in productivity

Kommentare: RescueTime has helped me increase my productivity, by pointing out where my time is truly spent.

Vorteile:

I love the weekly emailed report on productivity. It’s helped me find and fix "time leaks" in my productivity.

Nachteile:

I don’t use this for billing, because I jump in and out of local software as well as multiple websites for each project, making connecting the time to different projects too complex, so I use another piece of software for project time tracking.

So that's where all my time goes ... writing software reviews.

Vorteile:

I've been using the free version for some time now. It was really interesting at first, now I generally ignore it. But, I should probably take a look at my reports again to see how I'm doing. I'm impressed that it not only keeps track of time spent browsing different sites but time spent using local programs (Word, Excel, or even Remote Desktop, but not the specific usage on a remote computer). You can specify a category and how productive or distracting each website or program is. This is really helpful because a site could be productive for some people and distracting for others, depending on the type of work you do.

Nachteile:

Sometimes I wish that it kept more history. I think it does if you pay for it. So, that makes sense. I just have it on my Windows desktop. I tried to add it to my android phone once and it didn't seem to work well. But, to be honest I didn't try very hard to get it setup.

Essential for Telecommuters and anyone billing hourly

Kommentare: ability to see how focused i am from day to day.

Vorteile:

seamlessly integrates with all browsers. the same account can run on multiple machines. the default setup is pretty accurate and easy to customize to your productivity tendencies.

Nachteile:

viewing trends over multiple years can be slow. Id love the ability to generate a lifetime report for view later.

Great for small business owners & entrepreneurs

Vorteile:

Love using RescueTime to quantify my computer usage. Gives me great metrics for productivity and works seamlessly in the background.

Nachteile:

Not much to not like, it does what it says it does. Would like more tools to improve productivity during the day as RescueTime is so invisible you forget its running.

Game Changing App If You Track Your Time Hourly

Kommentare: It's a great way for me to track my time across different computers. I use it to make sure I'm recording all of my time in my daily time sheets that I use to bill clients at the end of the month.

Vorteile:

I really like that it's simple and efficient at tracking and grouping the time I spend online so that I can use that data to update my daily timesheets.

Nachteile:

It would be great if it would group some of the time into more specific categories - it will just say "Adwords" and it would be great if they had the campaign number so I can see which client where I actually spent my time. That said, I use the free version so that feels like a crap compliant considering I use it all the time and it's free.

Find where you're leaking time

Kommentare: I've used RescueTime to find out why I wasn't getting a lot of work done after work. After I've used it for about a week, the results were clear: YouTube was taking over hours and hours of my time. I started using it less and focused more on my writing, which gave me more pleasure anyway.

Vorteile:

Once you set this up, it's so easy to forget about it. Few pieces of software actually encourage you to NOT use it. I really appreciated this. Only browser extension and another small installer for your operating system means you're ready to monitor your time very fast.

Nachteile:

There aren't a lot of features to talk about. So it's hard to even call this a con. But perhaps other pieces of software that do similar things have more things to use. I would've like to be able to more specifically fine tune hours of operation, the software or websites it should monitor. Reports aren't amazing - at least in the free version. Overall it feels very barebones in the features department.

Great for managing your time

Kommentare: Great way of making sure you're not exceeding your daily quota of distracting/non-productive apps.

Vorteile:

RescueTime is quite complete. I like it that it also analyses the websites you use, not just the apps, and also allows you to get all information as one, that is, from your phone, personal computer and work laptop, and so on.

Nachteile:

Managing the categories is sometimes a bit of a hassle. Sometimes you access YouTube for a legit reason during work, and sometimes you don't. And it works in a way that you just determine if a site is more or less distracting, regardless of the time.

Great for freelancers and time-conscious people

Vorteile:

RescueTime is amazing for tracking your own time. Freelancers and consultants can use it to stay time conscious. Individuals can be more conscientious.

Nachteile:

Not many downsides! The software looks and feels a little clunky, and I wish you had more flexibility with the reporting and activity summaries.

Very reliable time management app

Kommentare: I underestimated RescueTime for too long. Thanks to a great blog they have (many useful time management articles) I stumbled upon their productivity course. The quality of that course made me rethink using RescueTime on a daily basis. I recommend it to every busy professional.

Vorteile:

The most powerful feature of RescueTime is tracking on what activities you spend your time and when you do this. The power comes especially from being on every device you use.

Nachteile:

I would like to see more features inside the mobile app. Especially regarding easily logging offline time.

No-frills productivity reporting

Vorteile:

Extremely easy to set up. Runs in the background with no issues and sends great reports.

Nachteile:

It lacks customization in what it considers for each category. Some job roles require using platforms which are considered less productive by default.