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karellen
May 11th, 2008, 09:06 AM
I just wanted to show you a nice little app that I've recently found:
http://rescuetime.com/
very useful if someone is curious about the time spent on various tasks while sitting in front of the PC. and besides, a huge + is that a Linux version is also available. of course, I suppose there are many other Linux native programs like this that I'm not aware, anyway it seemed interesting so I wanted to share it :)

P.S. it helped me in get ridding of some bad wasting time habits

SuperSon!c
May 11th, 2008, 11:24 AM
this would be good for an office scenario, that's for sure. home? meh. by the way, what were the habits that you mentioned?

karellen
May 11th, 2008, 11:38 AM
too much gaming (yes, I'm addicted to Medieval Total War :D), too much chat and casual surfing without a clear purpose in mind :)...

SuperSon!c
May 11th, 2008, 11:47 AM
so basically it doesn't allow you to relax much on the PC saying that you need to be more productive. eesh. i'm plenty productive during a 50 hour work week so i guess surfing, chatting, and playing games at home is down time. glad it works for you though.

karellen
May 11th, 2008, 02:36 PM
so basically it doesn't allow you to relax much on the PC saying that you need to be more productive. eesh. i'm plenty productive during a 50 hour work week so i guess surfing, chatting, and playing games at home is down time. glad it works for you though.

it doesn't hit with a big hammer if that's what you mean, just displays the time spent on various tasks (daily, weekly, monthly)

MatthiasM
June 1st, 2008, 06:30 PM
Anyone who might not want to post his personal life in detail to a webserver that is controlled by a company that aims to generate profit can check out: http://projecthamster.wordpress.com a GNOME-applet that does the same thing, but stores everything on your PC. Ubuntu DEBs are available: http://code.google.com/p/projecthamster/downloads/list

sethvath
October 21st, 2008, 10:02 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong but projecthamster requires you to manually start and stop the time tracking like a stop watch whereas rescuetime keeps track of what you surf on firefox via an extension and list of programs you run on your desktop without any manual intervention.

A local version of rescuetime residing on your pc might be good but as as a user who hops on up to 6 laptops/desktops a central place to keep track of where I spend my time is not such a bad idea.

I can write up a howto install rescuetime on the 3 platforms if there is a demand.

idotter
January 9th, 2009, 08:06 AM
That would be great, i use ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 and tried to install (on both) rescuetime ... without any success :-(

Can you (or anyone else help me?)

richardh9936
January 20th, 2009, 09:41 AM
Yes, could you please? I have trouble finding the correct files.

KarateCowboy
January 21st, 2009, 07:16 PM
I too am having an hard time getting rescuetime to work in Ubuntu. I remember ages ago I tried it in it's infancy and it worked but now it no longer uploads my time even though it says it is tracking me. This was with the 84 build.

With the 90 build I cannot even run it because I keep getting this:


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/rescuetime_linux_uploader", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('RescueTimeUploader==0.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'rescuetime_linux_uploader')()
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/RescueTimeUploader/entrypoints.py", line 4, in command_line
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/RescueTimeUploader/uploader.py", line 22, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gnomekeyring

AVakil
June 17th, 2009, 07:52 PM
How can I install this on 9.04?

pigphish
December 7th, 2009, 09:39 AM
I could not get it to work with 9.10 nor Firefox 3.5.5 (nor firefox daily build)

morepractice
August 6th, 2010, 05:43 PM
Check out my tutorial:
http://ubundance.blogspot.com/2010/08/installing-rescuetime-on-ubuntu-1004.html