How many words do you type in a day? I was asking myself a similar question a few years ago. I would go through a day with 4-5 word processor documents open, while composing a few emails, and entering in rather verbose engineering notes into large tables in Excel. Other days I would spend my time coding in R or Matlab or some similar software. I needed to motivate myself to hit intermediate goals for the day or the week, but I couldn't afford to spend my time constantly tracking word counters in each document and making the records necessary to make the day to day change for all of my projects visible.
I needed a counter that would give me a word count, a crude proxy for the amount of work I was doing, no matter the application I was using. Something that I could easily and quickly use to asses how many words I had typed in a given day regardless of what application I was using.
The only alternative software I could find on the web involved keystroke loggers, which are huge security risks. Software that logs keystrokes can record passwords, usernames, or other important personal information that might
The application I developed here, only looks for separation characters and advances a word counter each time a non-repeated separation character is used. This counter looks to see whether a space " ", a slash "/", a hyphen "-" or a parentheses "()" is recorded from the keyboard. Repeats or alternations between these characters are not counted. Therefore, this algorithm allows a comprehensive word counter without compromising security.
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Now, there is an application that succeeds on both of these fronts. You can try it out here.
Follow this link to download this free software application.
