My follow up to using WordCounter

Time to check in on WordCounter. As I look at the stats for the last 15 days, I’ve written 28,590 words, with most of those in Scrivener. A fair bit comes from Slack with 5,000+. TaskPaper has around 2,000 and Hemingway Editor gets some play with 1,500. That is a good amount of writing for 15 days. 30k words is well on the way to a decent novel. I believe 50k is the goal for NaNoWriMo. Some interesting data, but where to go from here? I like the idea of tracking my writing across multiple apps. It shows me where I am working, and which apps gets more use than others. That is beneficial when it comes to upgrades or new purchases. There are plenty of tools to “count” words, but they require some sort of copy/paste, which is pointless. WordCounter tracks words across apps as you type. And you can add the apps you use. From that standpoint it […]

Adding WordCounter for Mac to my back of tricks

Yes, I have a lot of writing apps. And now I’m taking WordCounter for a test drive. There is nothing new about counting words, but WordCounter goes a little bit further. It can track the number of words written across multiple apps. For example, you can see how much you write in TaskPaper, Scrivener, Slack, DevonThink Office Pro, Hemingway Editor, Email and Notion. That can be very useful from a statistical point of view. I have Time Sink showing how much time I spend in each app. WordCounter will now show me how much I actually type in each application. How much of my day is actually spent writing something? It’s meant to help writers achieve their daily word count. If have you a 2000 word goal, but use 4 apps, did you hit the mark? This would certainly answer the question. It can show which apps you are most productive with. Are you writing massive outlines, but only a […]