RescueTime for the Console

posted 04:43PM Apr 13, 2008 with tags console meme productivity rescuetime by Lars Trieloff

In some way, RescueTime can be seen as the graphical variant of this meme.

 $ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s \n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
   93	cd 
   80	sudo 
   71	ls 
   29	rm 
   17	ssh 
   16	less 
   14	export 
   11	mvn 
   10	./autogen.sh 
    9	tar

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RescueTime knows how I spend my time

posted 11:06AM Jan 23, 2008 with tags cool macosx productivity rescuetime software by Lars Trieloff

http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/lars/resource/rescuetime.png

As you might know, I am mildly obsessed about statistics, visualization and productivity. And this is exactly the mix that makes RescueTime so fascinating for me, RescueTime, marketed as "Time Management for Geeks" will analyze how much time you spend on your computer with what desktop or web applications and what websites. You can get a graph of the ten most used applications based on daily, weekly or monthly view. Additionally you are able to tag all applications and web sites in order to organize them into categories like work, personal, procrastination or according to activities like reading, writing, planning, etc. All in all a very helpful tool that tells me how I spend my time - and a website that has changed the way I work, even if I spend less then 7 minutes on most days on this website.

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