Looking for writing project tracking app

Please don’t petition for features by complaining about my decisions to other users in other threads - I’ve answered your queries in the dedicated thread you created to ask for tracking features, so please keep all discussion about your suggestion there, and keep this post dedicated to finding other tools that will do the job:

Complaining about me or my decisions to others is not likely to make me come around to your point of view. :slight_smile: It’s also worth remembering that most people (myself included when it comes to other programs) have a tendency to think that their way of working (or planned way of working) is typical, and therefore that their suggestions must be wanted by everybody. And yet to me, for instance, the idea of “some WPM calculations”, or graphs plotting your progress over time, seems a pointless distraction and just another way of procrastinating, avoiding the writing itself - planning to work, checking your progress, rather than actually writing. And this is coming from the king of procrastinators - goodness knows I don’t want any more ways of procrastinating at my disposal!

The current tools in Scrivener already do all most writers could want here (although perhaps minor tweaks could be made to the session target as I mentioned in the other thread): if you need to write 50,000 words in 60 days, for instance, you set a Draft Target of 50,000 and then use the system calculator (no, I don’t think Scrivener needs to do everything) to work 50000/60 = 833.333 words a day, so you could set a session target of 834. Or, let’s say you don’t write weekends and so you only have 52 days to do the actual writing - that’s 962 words a day. After that, all you need to do is use the session target and don’t stop until you’ve got your 962 words for the day. If you don’t restart the program the next day, just hit “Reset” to reset it to 0. If you don’t make your 962 words for the day, well, that’s not Scrivener’s fault and you may have some recalculating to do. :slight_smile: (Now, a feature where you set a deadline to your word count and Scrivener worked out how many words-per-session and adjusted it accordingly if you failed to make your target in a session? That I can see being useful and might consider. But not WPM graphs and suchlike.)

As I say, though, please keep this thread dedicated to other software, and if you wish to debate my decisions - which you’ve already done anyway - please do so in the other thread.

Thanks,
Keith