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Progress & goals
Draft phases, word targets, daily goals and streaks — the parts that tell you where the book is.
The Progress tab #
The first thing you see when you open a project: words written against your target, how much of the first draft is done, chapters completed, and which phase you are in.
Beneath that is a progress bar for the draft and the phase cards themselves.
Draft phases #
A book moves through phases: prewrite, draft and revision. Each is a card you add, name and give its own target, and each is colored — green, blue and red — so the shape of the project is readable without counting.
Phases are a record of how the book was made, not a workflow you have to follow. Add them as they happen, or not at all.
Word targets #
A project has an overall target, set when you create it and changeable afterwards. Acts, chapters and scenes can each carry their own, so a chapter can say what it is supposed to weigh.
Chapter targets default from the book target divided by the chapter count, which is why an empty outline still shows sensible numbers.
Daily goal and streaks #
The bar at the top of the Write tab counts the words you have written today against a daily goal you set in Preferences. The goal can be daily or weekly.
Writing on consecutive days builds a streak. It is kept as a permanent high-water mark, so a bad week lowers the current streak without erasing the best one you have had.
