How to Categorize Your Apps and Websites

Keep your data accurate by customizing how RescueTime categorizes your activities.

There are several ways to update categories and productivity scores: from a dedicated Activities page or directly from your reports.

From the Activities page

Select Activities from the top navigation bar. This page shows your activities from the past week, listed in order of time spent.

Use the arrows that appear next to each activity to update its category and productivity ranking.

Sort uncategorized activities

Click Sort uncategorized to filter the list to only activities that haven't been assigned a category yet. This makes it easy to work through any gaps in your data.

Manage categories

Click Manage categories to change the productivity ranking assigned to any category, or to create custom sub-categories that better reflect how you work.

From the Apps & Websites report

You can edit categories and productivity scores directly from the Apps & Websites Report, the Categories Report, or the Productivity Report, with no need to navigate away from your data.

Edit multiple activities at once

Use the Edit multiple link in the upper right of any report to select several activities at once. From there, you can recategorize, update productivity scores, delete, or ignore them all in a single action.