Alerts in the Assistant Feed

• How alerts work in RescueTime

  RescueTime alerts help you stay on track with your work habits, offering tips and reminders so you can focus more on what matters most. Alerts appear as notifications on your Mac or Windows desktop and can also be viewed later in your RescueTime Assistant feed or as pinned alerts.

  Note: To see alerts on your Mac, go to System Preferences > Notifications > RescueTime and toggle Allow Notifications on.

  Feed alerts

  Feed alerts show up in your RescueTime Assistant feed and as desktop notifications. Each alert appears for a limited time before it expires.

  • The Morning Briefing alert appears at the start of your workday. It gives you a quick summary of your schedule, including:
    • Your meetings and Focus Sessions (for Premium users with a connected calendar)
    • Your best times to focus (Focus Zones)
    • Whether you’re on track to meet your Focus Work goal, based on your available time today

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• The Focus Work Goal Alert lets you know when you've met your Focus Work goal for the day. You can learn more about the Focus Work goal here. 

• The Distraction Alert appears when you have shifted too frequently to Personal Activities or Communication (i.e. 12 or more shifts to Communication and Personal Activities). A shift is when you switch from a productive activity to an unproductive activity.

• The Goal Alert displays when you reach one of your custom goals.
• The Balance Alert displays when you work outside of the work hours shown in your work schedule. This can appear during breaks or after work hours.

• The End of Day Report Alert gives you a brief rundown of your activities that day, including how much time you spent on Focus Work, how often you shifted to Personal Activities and Communication, and your top activities in Focus Work and Personal/Distracting Activities.

• The Weekly Review displays your total work for the week with a breakdown of your total work logged, the best time to focus, Focus Work, distractions, and meetings. 

Pinned Alerts

Pinned Alerts appear in the RescueTime Assistant as a yellow box beneath the Focus Work goal and above the Alert feed.

• The Focus Zone Alert appears as a pinned Alert when you have one or more hours of available work time without meetings. It's an ideal time to do Focus Work. You can click "Start a Focus Session" to block distractions.

• The Join Meeting Alert appears as a pinned Alert when you have a scheduled meeting in your connected calendar. If you have a Zoom or Google Meet link in your calendar event, use the "Join meeting" button to directly join your meeting.