RescueTime
ProductivityPull RescueTime focus data into workflows. Agents fetch analytic reports, daily summaries, and alerts, and post highlights, turning attention data into standups, reviews, and productivity nudges.
What This Integration Enables
RescueTime records where attention actually went, automatically, which makes it the rare productivity dataset that is not self-reported. Timesheets say what people intended; this says what happened, and the gap between the two is usually the most interesting number in the review. This connector lets FlowRunner agents put that record to work: pulling the fully parameterized analytic report, reading daily summaries and alert status, and writing highlights back when work completes elsewhere, so the accomplishment journal builds itself one finished task at a time. - Feed productivity pulse and focus and distraction percentages into dashboards and standup reports - Query the core report by activity, category, productivity, efficiency, or document over any logged date range - React in a flow when a configured alert has recently fired - Log accomplishments as highlights automatically when work closes in another system - Export the highlights journal into spreadsheets and channels the owner chooses The analytic report's parameterization is what makes it a building block rather than a dashboard export: Rank perspective answers "what took the most time," Interval answers "how did the week distribute," and the report kinds slice by category, activity, productivity, efficiency, or document, down to 5-minute resolution. Most productivity tooling shows you a chart; this hands the underlying table to an agent that can act on it. Attention data is personal by nature, and what makes this connector safe to orchestrate is FlowRunner's [human-in-the-loop](/concepts/human-in-the-loop) discipline about where that data is allowed to travel.
Without FlowRunner
With FlowRunner
Use Case Scenarios
The productivity trend sheet that fills itself in
Every morning the agent calls Get Daily Summary, takes yesterday's entry, and appends the pulse, productive and distracting percentages, and total hours to a trends sheet in [Google Sheets](/integrations/google-sheets). Once a month, Get Analytic Data runs a category-level report for the trailing 30 days and writes the breakdown to a second tab. The long-term picture of where time goes accumulates without a single manual export, and because it accumulates in a plain sheet, it composes with everything else there: revenue weeks against focus weeks, shipping cadence against meeting load.
The journal that writes itself from finished work
When a timer stops in [Toggl](/integrations/toggl-track) or a task closes in the project tracker, the agent composes a one-line note and calls Post Highlight with the date and a source label. Friday's review pulls Get Highlights and the week's accomplishments are already written, grouped by source, in the order they happened. The 255-character limit turns out to be a feature: the journal stays a journal, not a report.
The distraction alert that actually intervenes
The user configures an alert in RescueTime for excessive distracting time. On a short cycle, the agent checks Get Alerts with operation Status. When the alert has recently fired, the flow acts: a private nudge via [Slack](/integrations/slack) direct message, a focus block dropped onto the calendar, or simply a log entry to correlate later. The alert stops being a notification badge and becomes the first step of a response, and the response is whatever the user chose in advance, not whatever the tool vendor imagined.
Human-in-Loop Highlight
Get Daily Summary and Get Analytic Data return something unusual for a workflow payload: a minute-resolution record of how a person spent their attention, down to the document and window title. The costly operation in this connector is not a delete, it is distribution. Once an agent posts an individual's focus percentages or activity breakdown into a shared channel or a manager's report, that disclosure cannot be recalled, and it changes how the tool gets used from that day forward. So FlowRunner flows built on this connector default private: data flows freely into the owner's own sheets and summaries, and any step that would carry it to a wider audience pauses for the data's owner to approve the exact content being shared. The agent assembles the review; the person decides who reads it.
Agent Capabilities
5 actionsAnalytic Data
1- Get Analytic Data Queries the core time-tracking report as a tabular result shaped by perspective (Rank or Interval), report kind (Overview, Category, Activity, Productivity, Efficiency, Document), date range, and resolution from 5-minute buckets to months, with optional activity, document, device, and schedule filters. The workhorse read behind every custom report.
Reports
2- Get Daily Summary Retrieves the daily summary feed for roughly the past two weeks: productivity pulse from 0 to 100, productive, distracting, and neutral percentages, per-category breakdowns, and total time. The dashboard feed that needs no query building.
- Get Alerts Retrieves the alerts feed: operation Status for recently fired alerts with their firing time, List for the configured alert definitions, optionally filtered to one alert ID. The hook that lets flows react to attention thresholds.
Highlights
2- Get Highlights Retrieves the highlights feed of short daily accomplishment notes with description, date, and creation time. The source for standups, reviews, and activity journals.
- Post Highlight Posts a new highlight for a given date, up to 255 characters, with an optional source label for grouping. The write that lets finished work in other systems record itself in the journal.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can FlowRunner do with RescueTime?
FlowRunner agents can run Get Analytic Data, Get Daily Summary, and Get Alerts in RescueTime, plus 2 more actions.
Does connecting RescueTime to FlowRunner require OAuth?
No. RescueTime connects to FlowRunner with an API key, no OAuth flow required.
Can RescueTime trigger a FlowRunner workflow automatically?
RescueTime doesn't currently expose triggers in FlowRunner. It connects as an action step inside workflows started by another trigger.
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