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Small suggestion for RescueTime

Dear RescueTime,

Only on my second day of Rescuetime [productivity time-tracking tool], but I love it. Here's a suggestion for the stats.

It's 11:00 am, but I've already met 67% of my design goal. But your goals messaging says "Not yet! You're 67% of the way there!" and is a negative red.

Unfortunately, I've also used up half of my distracting goal. You're message says "Keep it up! You're on track to meet this goal." and is a positive green.

I understand the logic here, but it's not smart enough. Shouldn't these be reversed?

Thanks

Response

Hello and thank you for your feedback. We did spend some time evaluating how to present this information. You have some ability to customize it by sending yourself messages with the Alerts feature, but perhaps it makes sense for users to chose the goals messages too. I will bring this up with the developer who works on the UI. Let us know if you have any other suggestions!

Roger
RescueTime support

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