TrustRadius Insights for RescueTime are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
RescueTime has helped users to improve their productivity by making them aware of where their time is being spent, helping them to cut down on time-wasting activities and increase focus. It provides users with insights into their daily work activities, helping them to understand patterns in their workday and identify areas for improvement.
For managers, RescueTime provides a way to track employee productivity and identify areas where productivity can be improved. For freelancers and entrepreneurs, it helps them to manage their time more efficiently by tracking billable hours and creating detailed logs of daily work activities. Furthermore, RescueTime has been useful for remote workers who need to control their own time and manage their schedules effectively. With RescueTime, users are able to stay on task, reduce distractions, stay focused, chunk tasks better, measure productivity efficiently and self-motivate themselves towards better productivity outcomes.
Some individuals in the company used RescueTime to track time spent on tasks other than work. We also use it to recognize things we shouldn't spend so much time dealing with. Despite being just an icon on my taskbar, RescueTime silently maps everything I'm doing, and at the end of the day, it gives me a report indicating how productive I've been.
Pros
Understand how I'm spending work time.
Maps everything that I do.
Easy to deploy and use.
Cons
User experience could improve.
Price.
Need to edit/categorize some activities manually.
Likelihood to Recommend
To understand where you are wasting too much time, and what you have to cut out in order to stop losing attention to what really matters in a day's work. It's a good app to categorize your day-to-day work and report your productivity level, and also how focused you are on what really matters from 9 to 5.
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Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)