How to Use Rescue Time to Increase Productivity
- 1. Allan T. Aguirre’s Tutorial on
- 3. It keeps eye on the target while…
- 5. Let’s start – open your browser
- 7. Click Sign Up to register
- 8. Choose Lite or Premium
- 9. For free, choose Lite
- 10. Click Sign Up Now
- 11. Enter your email address
- 13. Re-enter your password for confirmation
- 14. Choose the Lite plan
- 15. Click Sign Up!
- 17. Go back to Rescue Time
- 18. Click desktop app to install Rescue Time
- 20. Click Next on the pop- out window
- 21. Then click Next to create shortcut
- 22. Check box to start during boot up
- 23. Otherwise, leave it untick, then click Next.
- 24. Click Install
- 25. Click Finish to end the installation
- 26. Enter your email address for activation
- 28. Confirmation window for successful activation
- 29. Click Close
- 30. The next step is to customize
- 31. Choose your three most productive activities
- 33. There are several selections for productive activities
- 34. There are several selections for productive activities
- 35. There are several selections for productive activities
- 36. Choose your three most distracting activities
- 37. There are several selections for distractive activities
- 38. There are several selections for distractive activities
- 39. There are several selections for distractive activities
- 40. Check if time zone is correct
- 42. You can adjust your privacy options
- 43. Click Finish up to end the customization
- 44. Your account has been configured
- 45. Your statistics will show after 10 minutes
- 46. Weekly summary report sending via email
- 47. Example of email report
- 48. Example of email report
- 49. Now let’s see first your goals
- 50. Default goals is set for you
- 51. To edit, click goal section page
- 53. These are your productivity goals
- 54. To see day’s progress, click today
- 56. Progress for the day - business goal
- 57. Click Open daily timer for daily time logged
- 59. Daily time logged box will appear
- 60. Below are websites and applications used
- 61. Click this week for weekly progress
- 63. The weekly view
- 64. Click this month for monthly progress
- 66. The monthly view
- 67. Click Set new goal to adjust goals
- 68. You can adjust your productive time
- 69. Or adjust your daily distracting time
- 70. Click VIEW ALL GOALS for all goals
- 73. Click More details about this goal for details
- 75. Details of the goal will be shown
- 76. If you click Goal settings
- 77. “Goals & Alerts” page will show
- 78. Now let’s see your Dashboard
- 79. Dashboard shows how you spend your time
- 80. Point to categories to see websites and applications
- 81. Click more details to see hour spent
- 83. Hours spent will be shown
- 84. Export, share or print the report
- 85. Options for Twitter, email and printing
- 87. Alert is only on Premium account
- 88. Example of alert notice on a desktop
- 89. Set a new goal for the given category
- 90. Graphical representation for each category
- 91. Summary of your goals at the bottom
- 92. You can view different reports
- 93. View reports on websites and applications
- 94. Graphical representation of websites and applications
- 95. Below are activities ranked according to time
- 96. View your activities by the hour
- 97. View the day timer
- 98. The Day timer
- 99. Export and/or share the report
- 101. Review your categories and revise if necessary
- 102. Adjust the category of every activity
- 103. Adjust the score of every activity
- 104. Or delete an activity
- 105. Manage as well the categories you set
- 106. Change the score of your category
- 107. Click options for rules on adding categories
- 109. The rules for adding categories
- 111. Click to add new sub- category
- 113. You can choose which top-level category but…
- 114. …preferably use the Miscellaneous category
- 115. Enter your category name
- 116. Put the default score
- 117. Activity not categorized is under Uncategorized
- 118. You can also view reports by Categories
- 120. Below is the ranking of categories
- 121. Graphical representation of sub- categories
- 122. Graphical representation according to hour
- 123. Again, you can view Day timer
- 124. The Day timer
- 126. You can also edit the categories
- 129. Click ? for meaning of productivity pulse
- 133. Graphical representation of productivity by the hour
- 134. Below is the time spent per productivity
- 135. You can still view your Day timer
- 136. Report could be exported and/or shared
- 137. You can adjust the categories of the activities
- 138. View reports by Your Goals
- 139. Summary of all your goals by the day
- 140. View details of your goal
- 142. Open a daily timer
- 144. Create a new goal
- 145. And that’s it, you can log out!
- 146. “The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.” - Peter Drucker