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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Although OneNote has a word count powertoy, 1) it only counts words on the page in front of it 2) no logging. This makes figuring how many words I added across multiple notebooks and folders so impractical as to be completely not worth it.
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David, two things strike me here: 1) I'm not a OneNote user since I'm now on a Mac, but I was impressed with it when I had a Windows machine, but I'm surprised that you have "multiple notebooks and folders" for one book. I would have thought that at least you could limit it to one notebook, although the multiple folders is understandable.
2) If you do limit yourself to one notebook, is there some way in OneNote to dump the whole lot to, say, Word and do your word count there? It's a sloppy workaround, but it might help.
Something else that might help: When I was still using Open Office for writing (I now use Scrivener) I had a spreadsheet on which I had figures for each chapter and a sum for the total. I assume that, in your book Notebook, one folder will be a chapter. When I'm writing the first draft, I keep to one chapter at a time, and I assume you do to, so it wouldn't be too hard to finish your chapter by doing a word count and posting the result to your spreadsheet, then open the next document/chapter and so on. This would give you a rough and ready figure.
And one final point: from the point of view of a writer, Scrivener is very like OneNote. It's now available for Windows (they call it a beta but my wife's copy feels very stable) and you can try it free (I think) until the first release is made. Why not give that a run? If you're not on Windows, it will apparently run in Wine on Linux, too.