Writing Streak

Tools > Streak (or the remappable shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+S by default) opens a Streak dock tab that tracks whether you’re keeping up with a self-set weekly writing schedule. Everything about it — including whether it’s on at all — is configured per project, right inside the tab itself, not in the global Settings dialog: different projects can reasonably want different paces (or none at all).

The tab itself has two inner tabs, Streak and Configure, switchable freely at any time. Opening the tab picks a sensible starting one for you — Streak if the project already has tracking on, Configure if it doesn’t (e.g. a project you’ve never set this up for) — but that’s just the default; nothing snaps you back to it afterward.

• Configure: an enable checkbox (“Track a writing streak for this project”), a word target for each day of the week (0 for a day off), how a week counts as “met,” and how many consecutive missed weeks turn the light red (default 2). All shown regardless of the enable flag, so you can set everything up before switching it on.
• Streak: once enabled, shows Last completed week — a traffic-light badge (green/yellow/red, or gray until there’s a full week of history) judged only from fully completed Monday–Sunday weeks. It never reacts to today or the still-in-progress current week, so it can’t turn red on a Monday morning before you’ve had a chance to write anything — and Progress this week, a live, purely informational progress bar for the current week’s actual words vs. target that never changes the badge’s color above it. If the project doesn’t have tracking on yet, this tab instead shows a short message and a button that jumps to Configure.
• Two ways to judge whether a week was “met” (set in Configure): Cumulative weekly total (the week’s total words meets the sum of that week’s targets — a big Saturday can cover a missed Tuesday) or Every day individually (each day with a nonzero target must be met on its own).
• A compact traffic-light dot plus a live percentage (e.g. ● 45%) mirrors both readings in the status bar (once enabled for the open project); clicking either opens the Streak tab.

Streak counts the exact same words as the Word Count panel’s Track scope — by default, Manuscript folders only. Words written in a folder outside your Manuscript folder(s) (Research, a Characters note, a loose file at the project root, etc.) won’t count toward your streak at all, even though they’re saved to disk — easy to miss the first time you test it. Switch Track to Everything except Trash in the Word Count panel if you want every document to count toward the streak too.