Suggestions and thoughts about 2022 status bar

Operating System WIndows

Papyrus Author Version 11.05a

I’ve been using 2022 for a day now and I miss a few things that seem to have disappeared since v10.

  • I liked the ability to see how many words I had in the current session inside the status bar progress bar. I liked seeing the +/- number in the status bar. I can hover over the progress var and see how many words I’ve written, but I liked seeing that I still have 500 words to go or had surpassed my target by 1200 already today.
  • The same for the +/- for the document target. I liked seeing that I had 37000 words to go, not just that I have 67000 done. And I’d like to see it on the status bar
  • There is a lot of room on the status bar for extra elements. I’d prefer that the total and session progress bars were unstacked and larger. And had +/- text in them.
  • It would be nice if we could choose multiple things to be shown on the status bar. Total word count AND total characters.
  • It’s difficult to find where to set session targets/goals. It’s convenient enough to hover over the progress bars and then click on the expand arrow, but maybe there needs to be a menu item or a button on the first hover display that says “Target” or “Goals” instead of the hidden expansion.

I love the program. But I miss these elements of the status bar.

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I am going to bring this up again for Papyrus 12 as suggestions for the Status Bar. We had some of this in Papyrus 10. The other items would still be nice, too.