Amin, minor deity of the legume realmJun 1, 2025

Since #NaNoWriMo's website just went down, I think it's a good time for me to start up a second round of development towards #WritingMonth, my free and open source alternative goal tracking/sharing site.

To help me prioritize my work, what features would y'all like to see the most? Here are a few commonly-requested features I have on my list:

Any of those that stand out?

Allow progress update with direct delta

People should be able to set "words added" instead of "total words", for example.

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Show threadfbievan (powered by REAL polymaths)Jun 1, 2025
@amin idk
Show threadAmin, minor deity of the legume realmJun 1, 2025

@fbievan

thank you for your valuable feedback

Show threadfbievan (powered by REAL polymaths)Jun 1, 2025

@amin

Idk man words is an important asset...

So with that out of the way...

I'd like to see more ways to track projects other than just words...

Like percentage done (or)

Plot written

Idk I'm not much of a writer

Show threadAmin, minor deity of the legume realmJun 1, 2025

@fbievan

Percentage could be useful, I guess, though only if someone already has some other way to mark their progress, in which case they could just use that.

I already support these goal types:

  • words
  • pages
  • scenes
  • chapters
  • stories
  • poems
  • lines
  • blog posts
  • entries
Show threadAuthor HelpJun 1, 2025
@amin @fbievan I'd like to have hours on that list, especially if it could accept a floating point number (one decimal point would be enough for me).
Show threadAmin, minor deity of the legume realmJun 1, 2025

@office @fbievan

Yeah, that's been brought up… https://codeberg.org/Freedom-to-Write/writing-month/issues/72

Floats would be… interesting to implement, technically-speaking. Minutes (as integers) could definitely be done with almost no effort, but adding support for floats when almost every other goal type is based on integers would need some refactoring, and probably won't be first-priority.

Feature request: time-based goals

Could we please have goals based on time (ie minutes or hours spent). I might use Writing Month to push myself to do more research, but none of the existing goal types really fit. One based on time would make much more sense.

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Show threadAuthor HelpJun 1, 2025
@amin @fbievan minutes would also work 🙂
Show threadAmin, minor deity of the legume realmJun 1, 2025

@office @fbievan

Awesome, that one I can do in five minutes. XD

Show threadAmin, minor deity of the legume realmJun 1, 2025

@office @fbievan

Done! "minutes spent" is now an option.

Show threadHelen in WalesJun 1, 2025
@amin @office @fbievan Thank you for adding "minutes". Logging time spent is really useful at the editing stage. That's how I measure progress when revising a draft.
Show threadAmin, minor deity of the legume realm

@Dewines @office @fbievan

Good, glad that works well!

Jun 1, 2025 at 1:50pmWeb