Zettelkasten Statistics

Will

Curious minds want to know. So I created a statistical dashboard for my zettelkasten with Keyboard Maestro.

You can see I'm a bit of a beginner.

It is a little bit of a work in progress as I am still working on a legitimate way to report on the number of words added yesterday and so far today. I think I've come up with a way but we'll see.

If you apply this macro, consider sharing a screenshot of your dashboard. This isn't golf, the lowest score doesn't win.

This is a screenshot.

Here is the Keyboard Maestro Macro.
The usual caveats - change directory of zettelkasten, change "Hot Key", good luck, and let me know if you have questions or suggestions.

Link to Stats Macro

AayushPriyank

I see this dashboard is from five years ago (wow, that's a long time) - was curious whether you've made any changes in the dashboard since then or is it still the same?

AayushPriyank

@Will I was trying to set up the macro, but in the final step it says to change the characters based on my path, and that I can check the number by going to Preferences -> Variable -> NoteNames, but over there I am not seeing any value.

This functionality you have built will be very useful for me (whatever we track grows) so can you please help me implement it and point out where I'm doing it wrong?

Will

This is from a long time ago. This was before I learned Python. Now I do all this in Python and feed it back to Keyboard Maestro. I've changes the naming convention since also do the regex will not work for me. I put the title first and the UID second.

When I run the macro, I see a file in the variable %noteNames%. What do you see in %zettelkastenFiles%? You should see a file list count of your zettelkasten directory specified in an early script action.