RescueTime

Avantages

Rescuetime permet réellement de gérer son temps d'écran de manière optimal et d'identifier tout de suite les taches et réunion trop chronophages.

Inconvénients

Il n' y a pas d'inconvénients majeur dans l'utilisation de RescueTime

Avantages

The detailed analysis of how I use apps and websites made it possible to become more efficient when working with a computer. You can also block distractions if needed.

Inconvénients

Personally I don’t have any complaints but if you don’t want to have all your app and website usage logged online then this might be a downside.

Avantages

No brainer- install it with no configuration, and you instantly get personalized and valuable weekly reports.
Works on windows/mac/linux/android/iphone so can be used by anyone in company or any external team.
Excellent user-interface, very easy to customize to each user's specific goals if they choose to do so.

Inconvénients

The phone-based apps didn't seem to automatically categorize calls w/known contacts.
Sometimes if a given site hosted applications with two different goals/intentions/categories, this at minimum much trickier to track properly and

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à RescueTime

Avantages

Love to have a hands off time tracking app where I don't need to remember to actively track. This is set it and forget which is exactly what I needed.

Inconvénients

I'd love more customisation in the reports and choosing what you want to see in the weekly email reports.

Avantages

This software does pick up a lot of useful data, and allows you to quickly see what things you do on the computer and how the trends flow during your day or week. There is a lot of good information, simple to install and use generally, and overall a decent experience.

Inconvénients

I dislike the fact that you can't really customize things without lots of tedium in the categories and other areas. Also, the ability to change tracked sections of the day or week are somewhat limited; there are only one or two generic filters for declaring which days and hours to run the tracking. I have noticed that the categories are geared mostly toward organizations more than individuals. I have realized that if I customize categories to make a certain activity productive time instead of distracted time, it won't let me change just that one activity to be productive without bringing the entire category along with it.

Avantages

Easy to understand tracked data on the dashboard. Visual charts are impactful & very helpful. It can be quite surprising to see how much time I can waste & also how much good time I have put into my work & projects including when I seem to be most creative/productive. Also it's great that it can track my activity across my devices eg my laptop & my phone to give a better picture of how I am using/losing my time.

Inconvénients

Although the dashboard is accessed through a web browser, it is still necessary to download software to run on your computer & phone too.

Avantages

Even though it is not a time tracker in the sense of providing info to clients, I've chosen RescueTime over all other time management software. Why? Because it helps me focus, and it gives me a clear insight into how I spend my time, both online and offline. The best part: I hardly need to fill in anything, the app provides all the details of sites and apps I use on my computer and, my phone.

It takes some time, in the beginning, to set things up; you have to teach the app what you consider very productive, productive, neutral, distractive, or very distractive. But, then, it gives a clear overview of your productivity on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. As a pro-subscriber, I can also fill in time I did not spend on my computer. ​

Besides: In RescueTime,​ I can set focus time; After spending more than one hour on distracting time during work hours, ​the app blocks all websites and apps I consider distracting.

Inconvénients

The only thing I am missing is the possibility​ to assign work to projects and, clients. It would make it perfect!

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à RescueTime

Avantages

It is easy to use. It has productivity reports at the end of the day. It helps me stay on track with my tasks daily. And it is invaluable for tracking billable hours.

Inconvénients

Interface looks dated and a bit clunky. But it is a great software for tracking my productivity.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

One of the most useful aspects of RescueTime is its ability to automatically track the time I spend on different apps and websites without the need for manual intervention. This helps me get an accurate and objective picture of my work day without extra effort, the biggest time savings I have is with these features.

Inconvénients

Although I understand the need for monitoring to improve productivity, I am sometimes concerned about privacy and how the collected data is handled, especially when it comes to sensitive information related to my work at [sensitive content hidden], I think I am missing or the team is missing more data About this, further learning, this program does not have the guidelines as clear as other similar software.

Avantages

All versions of RescueTime offer a great overview of where you spend your time -- particularly how much time you waste on things like email and social media

Inconvénients

Really nothing I can think of. I use the free version, and it still feels very comprehensive for my needs.

Avantages

RescueTime can help you find and get rid of distractions to increase productivity by giving you insightful information about how you spend your time. The program automatically keeps tabs on your usage across numerous websites and applications and generates thorough time usage reports. You can establish objectives and track development using RescueTime's productivity scores and goal-setting options. RescueTime enables you to retain focus on key tasks with its customized warnings and concentrate time settings. Users are empowered to make knowledgeable decisions about their time management by the software's user-friendly interface and clear reports, which increase productivity and work-life balance.

Inconvénients

One drawback of RescueTime is that its automatic time tracking might not fully record all offline activities, which could result in inaccurate results. RescueTime's free edition has a limited feature set, and upgrading is necessary to access more sophisticated functions. Some users could find the comprehensive reports to be too much to handle or think that the productivity ratings are arbitrary. RescueTime offers information, but it doesn't actively push users to modify their behavior; instead, it relies on users' willpower to do so.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

I like how RescueTime tracks all the apps the user has opened and use as well as the browsers links.
I like it's idle time feature. And their reports and graphics.

Inconvénients

You can't track by project and make estimations about each time-consuming project in the company.
The promp ask you about some time idle is so useful but is not active by default.

Avantages

It's really easy to use and once you go through setting things up it takes no thought or effort. It just runs in the background and reports weekly. Knowing that it's running helps me stay on task.

Inconvénients

The auto-categorization works okay, but I needed to spend a good chunk of time custom categorizing various apps and websites because it was throwing off my reporting. (But I AM glad that they at least allow you that option)

Avantages

- an instant setup that's also highly customizable
- gives you a full overview of where your time is being spent on the computer
- you can categorize and filter out data if you like

Inconvénients

Not that I would expect it to do any better, but sometimes it can take some time to make sure all your activity is properly categorized

Avantages

Not only are the categories already extremely thorough, but the ability to create your own categories is just awesome! I only used this app for about 6 months before I stopped, not because I didn't like it, but because I got everything I needed out of it: Better time management skills.

Inconvénients

This is not the app's fault (goes for any app meant to help build habits or increase productivity): For the first week or so, there was a lot of "setting up" before it started working for me. You had to categorize each site you went to so that it could build up a dictionary/library and give you metrics. Like I said though, the app does it well, it's just tedious at the beginning.