Ignore specific applications and websites

Ignoring or deleting unwanted activities

Sometimes you’ll see apps or websites in your reports that you don’t want to track—or that add unwanted noise to your reports. RescueTime makes it easy to ignore or delete these entries.

Common examples of things you might want to ignore:

Full-screen video players (like Shockwave or Silverlight): These often show up without context, especially when watching videos in full-screen mode. For more accurate tracking, windowed mode is more reliable.

Virtual machines: If you're running RescueTime on both your main OS and a virtual machine, time can be double-counted. We recommend ignoring the VM instance to prevent inflated data. Learn more about tracking with virtual machines.

Noisy or irrelevant entries: Things like installer files, software updaters, or random websites that don't add value to your reports.

Go to Reports > Apps & Websites.

Find the app or website you want to remove. (It needs to have logged time, even just a few seconds.)

Hover over the entry and click the edit icon.

Choose to either:

Delete the time logged, or

Ignore forever to erase all history and stop future tracking.

How to un-ignore an activity

If you’ve previously ignored an activity but want to start tracking it again:

• Go to Account Settings > Data & Privacy.
• Click Manage ignored activities.
• Find the activity you want to restore and click the trash can icon next to it.
• Once removed from your ignore list, RescueTime will begin tracking it again.