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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
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.
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I don't have multiple notebooks and folder for one book. I keep a fairly large number of stories and story ideas in various stages of development, and they do cross multiple folders, and at the moment, notebooks, though that certainly isn't necessary, just how it happened. I could easily move the stories into a single notebook.
You can export to Word, and after looking at it just now, it looks you can even consolidate an entire notebook into one word document (and pdf, mht or xps). I don't know if OneNote (or Word) has a very flush command line repertoire, but if it did, I have the skills to script a nightly automated count. Might be a little more difficult to grab the outputted count and log it (perhaps the pdf format might useful there -- there are tons of odd pdf tools...oh,
found one), but still I hadn't thought of that angle. Reps for the notion. Honestly, I don't mind doing a little work up front (eventually) if a set-it-and-forget-it setup is possible.
I do appreciate you guys tossing some suggestions my way. I'll look at scrivener as well, but again, my OneNote addiction is pretty hopeless.