Overview cards
The cards at the top of Word Counter cover all your projects:
- Total Words Written: every word you've logged, across all projects. Words cut with negative sessions are subtracted.
- Today's Words: words logged with today's date.
- Current Streak: how many days in a row you've logged a session. If you haven't logged anything today yet, your streak still counts until the day is over.
- Active Projects: projects that aren't marked complete.
- Most Active Day, Most Active Month and Most Active Year: your best day, month and year by words logged, with the date underneath.
Starting Word Count isn't included in any of these. To choose which cards you see, click Customize cards.
Cumulative Word Count chart
The chart shows your running word total over time, with a point for each day you logged a session.
- Choose All Projects to see the combined total of every project.
- Choose a single project to compare your progress against your plan. A dashed Goal pace line shows where you'd be if you'd written your daily goal every day since the Start Date.
If your solid Actual line is above the dashed line, you're ahead of schedule. If it's below, you're behind.
A few things to know:
- The chart appears once you've logged a session, and draws a line once you have sessions on at least two different days. Until then you'll see "Log at least two sessions to see a trend."
- The Goal pace line only appears for a project with a daily goal. Otherwise you'll see "Set a daily goal on this project to see the planned pace line."
- The chart shows words logged in Word Counter. It leaves out your Starting Word Count, and the goal line is reduced to match.
- With more than 14 points, scroll the chart sideways to see your full history.