wordgoal

wordgoal is a command line tool for graphing your word count toward a goal.

Installation

wordgoal requires Python 3.8 or later.

pip install wordgoal

Configuration

wordgoal reads configuration from a YAML file named wordgoal.yml inside each directory.

For an example, see the wordgoal.yml file for this project.

Describing your word count goals

In order of precedence, a document's word count goal can be described by:

1. A Markdown document's goal can be described in its front matter:

   ---
   goal:
     words: 400
   ---
   # My 400-word short story
   
   It was the best of times…

2. Any file's goal can be described in its directory's wordgoal.yml:

   files:
     short-story.txt:
       goal: 2000
     long-story.txt:
       goal: 80000

3. To apply the same goal to all the files in a directory, set the default in that directory's wordgoal.yml:

   default:
     goal: 2000

4. If neither a goal nor a default has been described for a file, a goal of 1,000 words will be assumed.

Ignoring files and directories

wordgoal tracks the following files in each directory and subdirectory:

• *.markdown
• *.md
• *.text
• *.txt

To ignore a specific file or subdirectory, add its name to that directory's wordgoal.yml:

ignore:
  - LICENCE.txt  # file
  - drafts       # subdirectory

Styling the output

Styling options can be set in each directory's wordgoal.yml:

style:
  fractions: true    # <current word count> / <goal>
  percentages: true

Related packages

wordgoal uses:

• cariad/boringmd to extract plain text and front matter from Markdown files.
• cariad/progrow to render progress bars.

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