Calendar Event Hashtags

Using calendar hashtags with RescueTime

If you’ve connected your Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar to RescueTime, you can use special hashtags in your event titles or descriptions to control how RescueTime handles them.
Just make sure the event is created in your calendar—not the RescueTime calendar.

You can use hashtags to:

• Schedule a Focus Session
• Mark an event as a Meeting
• Mark an event as not a Meeting

Note: RescueTime automatically identifies events as Meetings based on the number of invitees. If you want to override this, use a hashtag to tell RescueTime exactly how to categorize it.

Hashtags to schedule automatic Focus Sessions

Add any of these hashtags to your calendar event’s title or description to trigger a Focus Session automatically:
#focustime, #focus, #focussession, #worksession, #work

When an event with one of these hashtags starts:

• RescueTime begins a Focus Session and reports all your activities.
• Websites and apps tagged as Personal Activities are blocked during the session.

If the event is outside your normal work hours:

• RescueTime will still track your activities and treat this as work time.
• The Assistant will switch to work mode and update your “available to work” time accordingly.

About blocking levels:

Your calendar-triggered Focus Session will use the same blocking settings you chose in your last manual session:

• If you last chose Block distracting sites and apps → only distracting sites and apps will be blocked.
• If you last chose Block distracting + communication apps and sites → both distracting and communication apps/sites will be blocked.
• If you last chose No blocking → calendar-triggered sessions will default to block distracting sites and apps.

#meeting

This hashtag allows a single-invitee event (just you) to be recognized and reported as a meeting.

#notameeting

This hashtag allows you to tag a multi-invitee event as not a meeting so RescueTime does NOT report it as a scheduled meeting.