Gauges and cards

The numbers that matter, at a glance, at the top of the Statistics overview.

Four gauges

• Book: the manuscript’s words against its target.
• Today: today’s words against your daily goal, including what you haven’t saved yet. A day spent cutting says how many words were cut.
• This Week: the last seven days against seven days of your goal.
• Velocity: the book’s length divided by its age in days. Its dial runs to twice your daily goal, so the goal sits at the top: past it, you’re ahead of pace.

Each turns green when it reaches its goal.

The cards

• Streak: days in a row with writing.
• Average: words a day over the last fourteen days.
• Best day, and when it was.
• Projected finish: the date you’ll reach your target at your average, and whether that’s in time.
• Due, when you’ve set a due date: the date, and the words a day it needs.
• In a series, Series: the words in every book.

The figures come from the book’s own history in Versions, so there’s nothing to log. The Stash isn’t counted.