Another comment on project targets. I normally write during the daytime hours on my iMac. I carefully watch the progress bar in my project targets window, because I love that kind of stuff. I leave the project open on the iMac. In the evening, I often have flashes of brilliant insight on my writing and want to capture them quickly. So I use my iPad to capture my thoughts.

In the morning, when I go back to my iMac, I sync the project. But along with the sync, comes the project word count session target synced from my iPad. That number is the total from the previous day, plus what I wrote the night before, and overrides the automatic reset of the target that I have set for 1am.

I know I can manually reset on both iOS and iMac, and I do, but I don't often remember and it would be nice if it just worked. Also, because, as I mentioned in another post, the targets window gets closed on the iMac when the sync occurs, it is easy to miss the replication of the previous day's session because I don't immediately re-open the targets window.

Another interesting feature. Because of the fact that I often end up with incorrect session numbers, I started keeping a log of my writing using Numbers. Each morning I make an entry for the previous day's total project word count from Scrivener and then subtract from the day before to give me a column with the daily word count (the session count in Scrivener's terms). If I compare my session counts with Scrivener's writing history, the match is inconsistent at best. I have often recompiled in Scrivener, to be sure that the counts are accurate (that I am counting the proper documents). For the month of April, for example, the counts that I have recorded match with Scrivener's daily draft counts in the history window on less than half the entries. The Scrivener counts are less than my counts. For example, on a few days where I wrote 1500-2000 words, Scrivener's history reports 5-50 words on those days. In the past few days, Scrivener has reported 0 in the history, while I have written 5000. it is possible that the Scrivener history is somehow tied into whether I have compiled because it has been a few days since compile. Also, my Numbers worksheet total word count entries all came from Scrivener and yet it I add up the total daily history counts in Scrivener, they are way short of the total word count changes during the history time.

Something seems amiss in the history. I'll try to keep closer tabs and see if I can figure out why I sometimes get such a mismatch in these numbers.

I know it may not be trivial to fix this, but the current method reduces the utility of the session target and writing history features, features that warm my numerological heart. It's also not a really big deal, but sometimes these little things are important.

Thanks,

Terry Brown