Writing goals
Words per day, streaks, a daily and a session goal, and targets for the project and for single chapters.
Open Stats from the ribbon, or run "Open writing stats and goals" from the command palette.
What is counted
There are two counts, and they measure different things.
The project's words per day. Each time a note is saved, Plotra compares its word count with the one before and adds the difference to that day. This is counted for the whole project, so if you write with someone else, their words are in the total too. It drives Today, the chart and the streak.
Your session. The words you typed in this browser tab since you opened the project. It is counted in your browser, only while your cursor is in the note being changed, so it is yours alone. A reload keeps it; a new tab starts a new one. Start over resets it.
A few things follow from counting this way:
- Pasting text, or restoring an earlier version, changes the count like typing does.
- Words you delete are counted separately as "cut". The chart shows words added, so a day spent trimming still shows the new words you wrote.
- Canvases, timelines and dialogue trees are not counted. Only text documents are.
- Days end at midnight in your own time zone.
Goals
Set these at the bottom of the Stats view. Clear a field to remove the goal.
| Goal | Whose | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Daily goal | Yours, in every project | Today shows a bar towards it, the chart draws a line at it, and the streak counts days that reached it |
| Session goal | Yours | The status bar shows your session's words against it, and a tick once you get there |
| Project target | The project's, set by anyone who can edit | Project shows the total word count against it |
Without a daily goal, the streak counts days with any writing at all.
A streak is not broken by today until today is over: if you wrote yesterday and haven't yet today, it still stands.
Targets for chapters
A chapter has a Target words property. Open the chapter, go to Properties in the inspector, and enter a number. The Stats view then lists it under Notes with a target, with a bar. A chapter's count includes the scenes inside it.
To give another kind of note a target, add a number property called "Target words" to that kind in the same panel.
The chart
The chart shows words added per day for the last 30 or 90 days. Point at a bar for the day's number. Table shows the same numbers as a table, which is also the version a screen reader can read day by day.