KB:
The philosophy with which Scrivener is developed now is exactly the philosophy used when it was created. I set out to write the perfect app for me . As it came to be used by others, I added and refined things based on user suggestions to make it more generally useful where I thought the additions and refinements fitted in with my vision for the program. Occasionally I have added features that I later wish I hadn’t, but I have never, ever added features in the hope of making Scrivener into some sort of catch-all that will appeal to absolutely everybody, because that way madness lies (and you end up with software that appeals to nobody).
We simply cannot add every feature that every single user requests, and nor would we want to. I do understand that some users love tracking what they write every day and keeping graphs and such, but it’s something that has never appealed to me and therefore not something I would implement well given that it’s the sort of thing I see more as a distraction from writing (even though I’m sure some users find it helps motivate them). It’s the sort of thing best kept as part of a separate, dedicated program, I think. Of course, if another writing package offers what you want, then you should most definitely use that software instead of Scrivener if, on balance, that software fits your workflow better.
All the best,
I get that, and I guess that’s a good philosophy.
So I take it there is no chance we will ever get an overview of words written per session? Would it be a lot of work to have Scrivener dump the word count of the last session into a CSV-style text file upon closing the program like: SESSION_DATE,WORD_COUNT
That would already be a really kick-ass feature, I think.