This is a wordcount tracker that mimics the word-counting mechanism and statistics shown by NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a nonprofit-run event where you attempt to write a novel of 50 000 words during the month of November.
No code of theirs were used and this little program is not in any way related or endorsed by the NaNoWriMo organization. I just thought their display was nice and encouraging and would like to have it for other times of the year too:
Period: 2014-11-01 - 2014-11-30
Your average per day: 1951
Words written today: 1164
Target word count: 50000
Target average word
count per day: 1667
Total words written: 25372
Words remaining: 24628
Current day: 13
Days remaining: 18
At this rate you
will finish on: 2014-11-26
Words per day to
finish on time: 1369
You need GIT and Python 2.7 (not tested with Python 3+). For plotting you need matplotlib (but you can still print all the statistics without it).
With Python and GIT installed, open your terminal window or command
line. Use the cd command to place yourself where you want the program folder
to end up and do
git clone https://github.com/Griatch/wordtrack.git
This will create a new folder wordtrack at that location.
Wordtrack is run from the installation folder, in a terminal/command line window.
python wordtrack [start [days [wordgoal]] | plot | <wordcount>]
arguments:
start - start a new period, starting from today
days - number of days in period (default 30)
wordgoal - target # of words (default 50 000)
plot - plot your progress (requires matplotlib)
<wordcount> - store a new wordcount
Use without arguments to show current statistics.
Start a tracking like this:
python wordtrack.py start
A new file wordtrack.txt will appear in the same directory. This is
the ascii data file storing the word counts. It's easily
human-readable and you can also edit past word-counts by editing this
file if you should want to. Wordtrack defaults to a time period of 30
days and a word-count goal of 50000 words (NaNoWriMo's default). The
period always starts from the current day.
You can specify other periods and word-goals. To set a period of 20 days and a word-goal of 30 000 words, do:
python wordtrack.py start 20 30000
You can only have one period running at a time (if you run start
again, you will start over).
To start updating your word count, check your text editor for your current word count and give it as a number:
python wordtrack.py <wordcount>
This registers your current word count and displays the current statistics. You can update as many times as you want in a day, only the latest will be stored.
To plot (requires matplotlib), use
python wordtrac.py plot
You can view the statistics for the current period by calling Wordtrack without arguments.