Word Counter

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Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 26, 2015 at 11:39 AM

Inspired by somebody’s mention of Christian Tietze’s Zettelkasten website, I went and had a mosey round, and promptly discovered the app Word Counter, written by Tietze himself (for MacOS, by the by).

This apparently modest little word-counting number is an unexpectedly amazing piece of software!

It can keep track of all the words you type in any application. You can add as many (or as few) apps as you like—browser, e-mail, Word, Pages, Ulysses, you name it.

But it does much more than that. It keeps a running tally of the wordcount per app – but also breaks down input per hour, so you can see exactly how much of your time during a given hour you spend working with specific apps. For somebody like me, who is cr*p at keeping track of time despite the fact that a lot of my work is charged on a time basis, this is absolutely the bees’ knees!

And it does even more than that! It keeps a history of past work, using a simple calendar model. You click on a given date, and you promptly get the breakdown of which apps you were using to enter how many words during which hours of the day. With a little graph thingy attached!

The only manual thing you have to do is add your favourite apps.

The future roadmap includes monitoring the wordcounts of documents in specific user-selected folders.

In short, it’s much, much more than a mere wordcounting app.

Sorry, Paul. That may mean another expense… ;-)

Posted by Hugh
Apr 27, 2015 at 08:07 AM

I’ve been using the application for a few months, and I agree with all of Bill’s assessment.

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