RescueTime Blog

Hi Folks,

We’re psyched to represent at IO this year with a new Android client. To celebrate, we’re going to welcome all new Android users who signup between May 10 and May 11 with a bonus year of Pro service. You’ve all given great support through the continuing development and improvement of RescueTime through years, and it’s payback time.

Existing Android customers: if you feel left out, just ping us by the end of the week!

This deal applies to Solo accounts.

Ok, here goes!

We’re often asked if there was an easy way to share your RescueTime scores with others, just like you can do with fitness apps or runkeeping apps. What we’re working on is our first stab at just that. We’ve added what we’re calling the Heads Up Display bar at the bottom of the page. Here’s what it has (so far!) and what’s coming next:

Please remember that these are still very much beta features with some glaring bugs sometimes and some missing parts other times. I really wanted to put it out now though so we can get a lot of feedback from our loyal users to make sure we keep heading in the right direction. With that in mind, please post discussion, feedback, requests, etc. over on our Suggestions board. I’ve set up a topic for the beta features here.

Oh! I almost forgot! To enable these features you’ll need to go into your settings page and check the box under Product Settings. Thanks, and good luck!

We are happy to announce that RescueTime now supports the current Beta versions of Google Chrome 6. You can download the update to RescueTime for Windows or Mac OS X

The main reason that RescueTime was not working with Google Chrome 6 is the removal of the “http://” protocol from the URL location bar. There is a lot of controversy around Google’s decision and it certainly caused us some headaches.

Regardless, we’ve found a way to work around it and all of you bleeding edge browser users should be back up and running!

By popular request, I’m proud to announce that we’ve released a RescueTime package aimed at families with school-aged children. You can check out the tour here. Spoiler alert: it’s really just a version of RescueTime for Teams that we’ve tweaked toward the household environment instead of the office.

Now you can have the power of RescueTime Team Edition in your home. We hope we can help families stay ahead of the game in the escalating war against distractions and internet information overload. You can set goals for spending time on the computer and keep an eye on what sites your kids spend the most time on. We had a rule in our house growing up (hi mom!) about spending an hour doing homework after dinner each school night. Now that so much of homework these days is online or uses the computer, you can use RescueTime to facilitate good work habits or at least make sure those pesky Neopets or Gaia Online games aren’t turning As into Bs or Cs.

So let us know what you think! And then spread the word – we’re offering a 20% back to school discount to start out.