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A friend of mine who uses Time Doctor wrote to me after trying RescueTime for the first time last week, saying, “It counts the time when I visited my bank web site on my break as ‘very productive’, but time in Google Chrome as ‘very distracting’, when I was actually working!” Task and Application Tracking Even if the application tracking in RescueTime is categorized properly – this information is very limited in its use because for the most part you cannot know what someone is really working on just from what application they are using.
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A silent tracking application does have some benefits – it requires little or no user input once installed, but unfortunately there are also major drawbacks. RescueTime requires no effort to use once installed, whereas Time Doctor is interactive by design. Time Tracking RescueTime tracks computer usage silently in the background and can be configured to block websites while Time Doctor encourages users to manage their daily priorities and tracks time spent on particular tasks.
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Both rely on a client side software package installed on a users computer to monitor computer usage coupled to a remote server that can generate reports and tracks ‘personal productivity’ – or more precisely, productive time.īut this is where the similarities begin and end. On the surface, both programs do appear to be similar, but the approach and the practical applications of each product are vastly different.
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A number of visitors to the site have asked how is different compared to, a popular and free productivity/time tracking application.