Think you work hard? Think again.

That's as complicated as it needs to be (but I have a pretty simple job).

1) It's hard to install without someone knowing. 2) You can pause the data collector at any time. 3) If you're clever enough you can edit your data before it leaves your machine.

In short, we're making it EASY TO CHEAT. Hell, I'll publish a GUIDE to cheating at RescueTime.

We're also going to make it against ToS to use as an individual scrutiny tool. We think this level of individual scrutiny is a crappy way to manage people-- we refuse to be a part of that.

...and you should probably get a sixth to track how much time you spend flipping between stopwatches and work.

work vs. not work.

I've done the time management exercise (the manual log) and found it to be incredibly useful. Just the act of paying attention made me more productive. But (like 99.9% of the people who try) I stopped keeping a log-- it was just too much damn work. :-)

So I guess we're trying to take the work out of it.

I disagree. I think most people know how much they're getting done. I think tools like this and over-complicated productivity "systems" are actually just another form of time waster. Simply set deadlines that don't allow for wasted time and then meet them.