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- New Release Today - Drag and Drop Dashboards and More!November 14
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Today we’ve launched a brand new release for RescueTime. Much of what we’ve done since the last release is “under the hood” - with a focus on making the site faster and more robust. But there are a few bits that are worth reporting that might give you a glimpse into what we have in store for you soon.
- Drag and Drop Dashboard: Every time we’ve added anything to the dashboard or shifted anything around, there has always been a vocal minority of folks who complained– and with good reason. Everyone has a different idea of what a dashboard should contain and how it should be organized. As of today, you now have drag and droppable elements on your dashboard. Just grab the header of any graph block and move it around to wherever you want. Or, if you don’t care to see it– minimize the graph using the “-” button in the upper right of the graph.This is an important step for our next release that will allow you to add literally any graph/visualization in RescueTime to your dashboard. Is the most important thing for you to know how much time you spend in Email? You can add email time for you or your group to your dashboard. Would you rather know how much time you spend in all design tools? You can add that graph to your dashboard. As we add new and interesting ways to look at your RescueTime data, we hope to give people the ability to focus on the data that is most critical to them!
- Data Export (a popular featur
- Recession-proof yourself (and your team!)October 8
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Here at RescueTime we’ve always been focused on helping our users get the most out of their day. With the recent downturn of the world economy, it’s even more clear to us how important it is to help everyone be as cost-efficient with their time as possible. We’ve been reading about people having to pinch their pennies and are starting to encounter companies who want to do the same. We’d much rather see business teams be able to produce more with their existing members than have to cut headcount, so how can we at RescueTime help workers and businesses produce more in these troubled economic times?
RescueTime can help team members produce more in the same amount of time by helping them be more efficient. Just understanding where your time goes helps you make the most of it, and by introducing a certain amount of competitiveness to the rest of your team keeps you focused and engaged. Our service can also help top performers stand out - to make sure they get the credit they deserve.
RescueTime can help team managers more efficiently use their resources. Managers can justify their headcount by proving that all of their team members are engaged in their current projects. They can also immediately identify under-performers and bring them back on track, or even notice when team members are burning themselves out and need to take a brea
- Big New Release @ RescueTimeOctober 2
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Hot on the heels of bringing on a new team member (Montana Low– read about him on our refreshed company page), we’ve just pushed a new release!
Accompanying the standard pile of tiny bug-fixes and improvements are a few exciting new features that we’d like to introduce you to.
Revised Scoring System
A few months back we launched a scoring system to give people a single number to represent their efficiency (ratio of good time to bad time) and productivity (sheer amount of good time). The goal with these scores was to give people a clear understanding of how they compared to other folks and how they compared to people across their business teams.
The problem with the scores (which we heard loud and clear from our users) was that they were a bit complex/confusing. It was difficult to know what they meant and required a bit of reading/digesting for neophyte users to understand even the basics of how it worked.
So we’ve simplified matters and come up with a single score (”efficiency”) directly based on how you’ve rated your tags and/or categories. Under the score, we show you your total hours for the period (just because you’re efficient doesn’t mean your productive if you’re only working 4 hours per week… Sorry,
- RescueTime gets Funded, Charging ForwardSeptember 23
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First off, before I lose our ADD readers, let me point you to our brand-spanking-new ongoing RescueTime Feature Discussion List, where you can add feature ideas, talk about ‘em, and vote up the ones that you like (powered by our friends from Slinkset). Okay, back to the news…
The RescueTime blog has been awful quiet of late, but we’ve been busy.
Most notably, as announced on TechCrunch last night, we’ve closed a Series A round of funding that’s going to allow us to charge forward in some pretty exciting ways. Our great growth/traction on the business time management front made the fundraising road easier than some, but you still cannot imagine how time/energy consuming the effort is.
More Details about the Funding
True Ventures led the round (which means that they help wrangle the paperwork). We’re in good company with True– they’ve funded some of our favorite companies, notably WordPress, GigaOm (home of Web Worker Daily, which we LOVE), and Meebo. More importantly, their portfolio compan
- RescueTime now supports Google Chrome for WindowsSeptember 3
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We have been floored by the amount of requests and feedback asking for URL resolution support for Google Chrome. The adoption rate of Google Chrome and our user base has been pretty darn staggering.
After putting in some long hours last night, we have a version of RescueTime that supports Google Chrome for Windows. The test cycle on this is a lot shorter than we generally like, but felt it important enough to get this feature into the hands of our users quickly.
As of now, you can update the Windows RescueTime Data Collector to version 1.0.7 by going to the system menu and selecting “Check for updates” or downloading the most recent installer from the RescueTime website.
Let us know if you run into any issues!
