Your Dashboard
The Dashboard is your RescueTime home page.
It shows the time you've recorded, your Productivity Pulse, and where that time went, all for whatever date and period you choose. From here, you can drill into your day's patterns and check your goals. If the terms below are new to you, start with Understanding Your Data.
Three views of your time, side by side
The top of the Dashboard answers three questions at once: how much time you logged, how productive it was, and where it went.
Left: time logged
Your total recorded time for the period, with a "time by hour" graph showing how it was distributed across the day. It also notes how this compares to the period before.
Middle: Productivity Pulse
Your score from 0 to 100, weighted by how much time you spent at each productivity level. The arrow below it shows the change from the period before. For how this is calculated, see Understanding Your Data.
Right: category breakdown
The share of your time spent in your top categories, largest first, each with its own bar. Hover over any section of the Dashboard to reveal additional detail.
💡 All time vs work hours. The toggle beneath the Pulse switches between all your tracked time and just your work hours. Your nights-and-weekends activity can tell a very different story from your workday, so this is a quick way to focus on what matters.
Choosing a date and time period
By default the Dashboard shows the current day. Click Daily next to the "Your ... Dashboard" heading to switch to Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.
Use the arrows at the top right to step between dates, or click the date itself to open a calendar. The date picker has filters for the time you want to see: All time, Work hours, weekends, mornings, or afternoons.
A closer look at your time
Below the top section, Spotlight breaks your time down in four different ways. Switch between them using the tabs on the right.
Work hours
Splits your day into time logged during work hours versus outside them, with the top activities in each. A fast way to see how much work spills into your off-hours.
Top activities
Your most-used apps and websites for the day, grouped by category so you can see what drove each one.
Daily patterns
Your time by category across each hour of the day, so you can see when you tend to do which kind of work.
Trends
The same categories tracked over time, so you can spot whether a habit is changing across recent weeks.
Your goals for the day
Further down, the Dashboard shows your goals for the selected period and how you're tracking against each one. A checkmark means the goal is met for that day.
To create or change goals, see Setting Up Goals and Alerts.
Next steps
The Dashboard is your hub on the RescueTime website. From the Focus menu in the navigation bar, you can open your Personal Reports for a deeper view of your apps, websites, categories, and productivity over any time range.