Live Word Count - Running Total

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Hi All,

I can’t see any discussion of this so hope someone can help: I’d like to see a simple, running total of the word count of my Draft folder (aka my compile list), but can’t find a setting anywhere.

Ideally I want this on the bottom toolbar of my outliner view, as in this screenshot, where it says ‘22 items’. I have selected ‘Draft’ to be displayed, and just want Scrivener to add up the total words in each of these folders and display it as I work. I don’t want to bring up the Statistics window, but the result of that window is what I want to see as I type.

With many thanks,
D

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If you choose the draft/manuscript folder and highlight and choose scrivenings view will see a word count for that folder and all its contents. I assume would have to stay in scrivenening view to maintain it.
When I was doing my first draft of my first book just done (132000) words, I was more concerned with the daily production and when click that will also see total words in the draft folder at same time and put target icon on the toolbar and one click see that data (keyboard shortcut is CTRL+SHIFT+T)

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Thanks for the reply: yes, I know that Scrivening mode has this, but the whole point of the outliner is to see an overview of what’s happening with all the sub-documents, to see the individual wordcount by section, and how they add up to the total. Given there are so many different column options, it just seems odd there is no way to view the actual total word count of the entire draft. Unless there is? Anyone have a suggestion?

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One way:

  1. Hover the cursor over the Quick Search bar
  2. The first figure is the total count of the draft folder
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Add the Total words column to the Outliner and check the number next to the Draft folder.

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How do you get the Draft folder to appear in the Outliner? I only see its children (sub-folders, parts, chapters, scenes), not the draft folder itself.

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I made a fake folder above manuscript in the binder and clicked on that and manuscript then outline view and looks like this.

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@GoalieDad 's solution works. I was going to say: move your scenes in a scenes-folder inside your Draft folder, but @GoalieDad 's solution is simpler. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, @GoalieDad and @AntoniDol.

All understood. Would be nice if ‘Draft’ could be included without these workarounds.

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Thanks all: it does seem bizarre to have to create such a workaround, for such a basic and essential function!

I actually can’t make my whole draft move into an upper-level folder, for some reason which I can’t understand. There are so many options on Scrivener that I’m not going to start fiddling with settings at this point as I"m very near the end of this draft with a deadline approaching…

Arguably Scrivener has become a bit too over-complex over the years of adding features, and it could do with a redesign to simplify and strip-down to make it a bit more intuitive again… (puts on tin hat).

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