TimeRescue for detailed statistics about your computer usage - and about you

RescueTime seems like the ultimate tool for geeky time-savers and lifehackers. It provides you with the statistics of your time on-line, and you can observe or set up almost anything. You can also create goals for yourself, e.g. no more than 1 hour of YouTube a day etc.

You need to register and then download the application (there is Download link at the bottom of the page).

Join RescueTime

What RescueTime does:

• monitor every application you run
• monitor webpages you open (not their content, just the URL)
• provides Google-Analytics-like interactive graphs and statistics of virtually anything you could think of when talking about internet and computer usage
• shows how different tasks you were engaged in were productive or unproductive (community assesment + your assesment)
• all statistics are available on-line, but just for you (password-protected)
• for personal use it is free, there are some sophisticated ways how to use this in companies, too
• gives you overview of what you should improve
• you can add categories to different webpages or apps: work, fun, education etc...
• evaluates your "efficiency" and compares it to other users (in percentiles)
• you can create custom views, custom overviews, categories, almost anything

I can't think of any other easy way how to get these data. Of course, it is up to you what you will change based on what you find. But TimeRescue really grew over the year I've been using it, and I think you might find it fascinating, and perhaps very useful, too.