How Riikee counts words
The count beside the editor follows the practice you are currently viewing and updates as you write. For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text, each character counts as one word. A word written with Latin letters counts as one, as does a continuous number. Punctuation and spaces do not count.
A practice’s current count and its contribution to a day’s writing history are related, but they are not always the same number.
Article length and daily writing are different
The editor count is the current length of the open practice. Daily progress measures retained words you add during Writing Sessions on that local day. The practice can be from today, an earlier date, or any Project.
Writing across several practices or sessions is combined. If a session crosses midnight, its activity is split between the two local dates. You can review your time zone in Settings → General.
What counts as writing
New text you keep counts, including text written while revising an older passage. Text inserted and then undone or deleted in the same session does not count. Deleting existing text does not subtract from today’s written words.
Formatting, moving existing text, system recovery, and text inserted by AI do not count as your daily writing. A session’s net change can therefore differ from its words-written total.
History, deletion, and Catch Up
Past daily activity stays attached to when the writing happened. Later edits count on the later editing day, not the practice’s original date. Deleting a practice does not erase writing activity already recorded from its sessions.
Catch Up writing also counts on the day you actually write it. Meeting the Catch Up requirement can credit the missed date for its goal or streak, but it does not duplicate those words in daily or lifetime totals. Session-based history begins when this counting method becomes available; older writing activity cannot be reconstructed reliably from article timestamps.