If the prompt pops up and I don’t have anything to write down I know I’m getting off track. I created hourly prompts to log the things I’ve accomplished during the day. It’s then really easy to see at a glance what I’ve accomplished in the past two weeks! - Marielle Bryck I have intelligent prompts that remind me to enter Highlights in RescueTime, and I enter specific tasks that I’ve finished since the last prompt. Sometimes it’s hard to remember an item after it’s been crossed off my task list, because I’m already so preoccupied with the next task or project, and looking back at RescueTime reports doesn’t give me the specificity I need to report to my boss. My boss likes to specifically know what I’ve accomplished in the past two weeks when we meet for our one-on-one meetings. Without it, I might go days at a time putting out fires and miss some significant billing opportunities. The highlights are a great tool to make quick reference notes about what I’ve been doing for the previous time blocks.
It also helps me track which elements of my role tend to take most time at which point in the month, which lets me plan workflow better. I record major or notable daily tasks completed so that when it comes to writing monthly activity reports for my supervisor, I can see easily at a glance what I accomplished. Reporting to supervisors and better planning At the end of the week, I take these highlights to compile a report for my client.
Though out my day I record highlights of what I have done. I use the Daily Highlights to keep track of how I spend my non-billable time, as I’m not very consistent with using my time tracking app for non-billable things. Since we introduced this feature, our users have found lots of different benefits in using daily highlights. How are RescueTime users using Highlights? Adding in a way to log notes about each day seemed like an obvious way to fix that. That’s a situation that comes up pretty frequently for me, and it was frustrating. RescueTime is great for understanding broad patterns in my time use but not so great for looking back at a specific day and remember the meaningful things I did. When our highlights feature was first released, here’s what now-CEO Robby Macdonell said about its inception: To make them easy to remember, you can set up alerts to automatically prompt you to enter highlights as you progress through your work day. You can enter Highlights manually on the website, or automatically with an API integration (see examples below).
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