Comments on: Death of a Feature: The Impending Demise of Tags http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/ Our official blog, where we discuss product updates, general productivity tips, and interesting tidbits from our hundreds of millions of hours of attention data. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:10:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Terrible attitude to customers courtesy RescueTime « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1400 Terrible attitude to customers courtesy RescueTime « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:02:51 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1400 [...] Their blog post explaining this change is a masterpiece of ‘this world revolves around us’ and ‘who cares about customers’ - [...] [...] Their blog post explaining this change is a masterpiece of ‘this world revolves around us’ and ‘who cares about customers’ – [...]

]]> By: abhi http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1399 abhi Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:27:28 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1399 this is a terrible change. what happens to all my tags and all the time i've spent building up the system? can i pay to keep tags or the old tagged data i had? resucetime has gone from my favorite time management site/app to wtf. this is a terrible change.
what happens to all my tags and all the time i’ve spent building up the system?

can i pay to keep tags or the old tagged data i had?

resucetime has gone from my favorite time management site/app to wtf.

]]> By: Tony Wright http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1392 Tony Wright Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:36:07 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1392 Hey Matthew! The subjective-style tagging capability is now built into scores (and we have defaults scores for most things based on your tags and the scores of other users, but you can override them). I can't help you if you've truly lost interest, but you could check out our new "Total Time by Productivity" visualizations, which we think are awesome: http://www.rescuetime.com/browse/productivity/by/rank/for/the/week/of/2009-07-21 To make sure your scores are pretty accurate, you could browse down this list (list of all apps/sites for the month) and just double-check the scores on the right. Change any you disagree with and you'll pretty much have what you had before (and more!). I'd wager it'd take you (at MOST) 5-10 minutes. Hey Matthew! The subjective-style tagging capability is now built into scores (and we have defaults scores for most things based on your tags and the scores of other users, but you can override them). I can’t help you if you’ve truly lost interest, but you could check out our new “Total Time by Productivity” visualizations, which we think are awesome: http://www.rescuetime.com/browse/productivity/by/rank/for/the/week/of/2009-07-21

To make sure your scores are pretty accurate, you could browse down this list (list of all apps/sites for the month) and just double-check the scores on the right. Change any you disagree with and you’ll pretty much have what you had before (and more!). I’d wager it’d take you (at MOST) 5-10 minutes.

]]> By: lupin_sansei http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1391 lupin_sansei Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:57:40 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1391 I miss tags too. I had 3 very broad tags: work, non-work, and productivity. I classified everything into those 3, and had rules saying I had to do so many hours work a day, and less than so much non-work. By removing tags RescueTime has lost me one year's worth of classifications and I've kind of lost interest in learning how to make the categories work for me this way. I miss tags too.

I had 3 very broad tags: work, non-work, and productivity. I classified everything into those 3, and had rules saying I had to do so many hours work a day, and less than so much non-work. By removing tags RescueTime has lost me one year’s worth of classifications and I’ve kind of lost interest in learning how to make the categories work for me this way.

]]> By: Phil Willis http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1385 Phil Willis Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:49:02 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1385 So if I previously had nine apps tagged as "art" (photoshop, flash, maya, premiere pro and certain reference websites like www.flickr.com) how do I add up all the time I spent on "art" under the new system? And does it now mean that all "Internet Explorer" activity is considered as one category? Why not just track "Phil is using his computer now" and make one big category? I don't get it. So if I previously had nine apps tagged as “art” (photoshop, flash, maya, premiere pro and certain reference websites like http://www.flickr.com) how do I add up all the time I spent on “art” under the new system?

And does it now mean that all “Internet Explorer” activity is considered as one category?

Why not just track “Phil is using his computer now” and make one big category?

I don’t get it.

]]> By: Ian http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1374 Ian Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:08:09 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1374 Love the new rescue time interface. simple - tells me what i need. Love the new rescue time interface. simple – tells me what i need.

]]> By: Major Release: Time to Put out some Fires! « RescueTime Blog http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1372 Major Release: Time to Put out some Fires! « RescueTime Blog Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:11:53 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1372 [...] are officially gone. We broke down our reasoning here if you’re [...] [...] are officially gone. We broke down our reasoning here if you’re [...]

]]> By: Sergio R. Téllez http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1370 Sergio R. Téllez Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:13:14 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1370 Is there going to be the possibility to embed a top categories chart to my web site when tags are gone? It´s the only reason for me to use tags right now. thanks. Is there going to be the possibility to embed a top categories chart to my web site when tags are gone?
It´s the only reason for me to use tags right now.

thanks.

]]> By: Landon http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1369 Landon Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:03:40 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1369 I'm a little curious as to the reasoning behind your crazy new url structure. (You know that no one but the nerds that appreciate mod_rewrite are going to utilize it...) Why not do something like /browse/scores/by_day/for_week/2009-05-17/? Seems a bit overkill to have article-adjectives in a url, but that's just me ;) Anyway, keep up the good work. I, like the masses, agree that a one-to-many (or :has_and_belongs_to_many) categorization structure doesn't need both tags and categories. Way to fight the web 2.0 mantra; tagging != life. :P Thanks, Landon I’m a little curious as to the reasoning behind your crazy new url structure. (You know that no one but the nerds that appreciate mod_rewrite are going to utilize it…)

Why not do something like /browse/scores/by_day/for_week/2009-05-17/? Seems a bit overkill to have article-adjectives in a url, but that’s just me ;)

Anyway, keep up the good work. I, like the masses, agree that a one-to-many (or :has_and_belongs_to_many) categorization structure doesn’t need both tags and categories. Way to fight the web 2.0 mantra; tagging != life. :P

Thanks,
Landon

]]> By: Brian Smith http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/06/29/death-of-a-feature-the-impending-demise-of-tags/#comment-1368 Brian Smith Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:54:38 +0000 http://blog.rescuetime.com/?p=217#comment-1368 Do us Solo Pro users get to experience the new drop down menus? Or is this reserved for the world of Pulse and Empower users...? Do us Solo Pro users get to experience the new drop down menus? Or is this reserved for the world of Pulse and Empower users…?

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