Can I count how many documents have a specific status

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I use document status to tell me how close to completion a document is - notes, draft, completed, revise etc. I must have about 250 documents in my project, nested in folders and sub-folders. Is there some way to count them accurately? and some way to count how many of them have each status - completed, draft etc?

Ideally, what I’d like is a one-click report, showing how many cards in the draft have each status.

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Hi.

If you click on a document in the binder, and then Ctrl-A, this will select them all.
Then, set the editor to display as Outliner view.
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You can then sort your document by statuses.
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(The screenshot above shows how to reveal the column ; sort by clicking on the column’s header.)

Then, if you select in the Outliner view all the documents of a specific status (click the topmost one, shift-click the last one), at the bottom you’ll see “X of Y items”.
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In this case it would mean that out of 8 items (the document count in your project, since you’ve preselected them all in the binder), 3 are currently selected (thus of the target status).

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Thanks, that works :+1:

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