One Week of Rescue Time

I started using Rescue Time last Monday.

Between Monday March 19, and Saturday March 24, I was at the computer for 36 hours and 20 minutes. The program tracks data on what programs you are using, or what website you're on. I like that it tracks non-online activities as well.

It automatically assigns categories to activities, and you can give each activity a productivity rating of -2 to +2. You can pause the program for 15 minutes, 1 hour, or until the next day, if you want to take a break.

You can also set it not to track certain activities. The only thing I set it not to track was my time spent on the Rescue Time website.

Activity Summary

Category Summary

Example of a Category I created called 'Time Wasters'

Efficiency Summary

Breakdown of my 36 hours and 20 minutes of computer time:

• Microsoft Word - 8 hours, 47 minutes
• Facebook.com - 3 hours, 15 minutes
• Mail - 1 hour, 57 minutes
• Reformedexhibit2012.info - 1 hour, 37 minutes
• Twitter - 1 hour, 35 minutes
• Google Docs - 1 hour, 23 minutes
• Finder - 1 hour, 7 minutes
• Viewit.ca - 51 minutes
• Melissajclark.ca - 47 minutes
• Toronto Craigslist - 47 minutes
• Xojane.com - 38 minutes
• Jezebel.com - 34 minutes
• Netflix - 30 minutes
• Skype - 27 minutes
• Tumblr - 25 minutes
• Derekshapton.com - 25 minutes
• Simplyhired.ca - 24 minutes
• Theglobeandmail.com - 23 minutes
• Lifehacker.com - 19 minutes
• Online Ikea Catalogue - 16 minutes
• Ikea.com - 15 minutes
• Lightroom - 15 minutes
• Adobe Acrobat - 14 minutes
• Photobooth - 12 minutes
• iTunes - 11 minutes

There are a lot more, but those are the applications/websites I used for more than 10 minutes. Using Rescue Time showed me that I spend time on a lot of different websites online.