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Thank you!  

I also added one of the things you mentioned, at least what I thought you meant about the daily word count.  Did you have something else in mind for that? It's a setting at the bottom for either Net Change (subtracts on delete) or Add Only.

For the focus / single draft view, it'll have to be in a future update, because I'm still working out how views should work.  But for now, there's a kind of workaround; you can filter by the name of the draft and have only that one show up, if it has a unique name at least.  It's dumb, but it works temporarily.

Hey, I appreciate the kind words and feedback.  I think both of your criticisms are very reasonable and also relatively easy to add.  I already planned on having different editor views, one of them being just a single draft view.  For the word count, I can add the option.  I'm working on Fireplace and Ice Planet themes as well.

The issue for me at the moment is that because there hasn't been a lot of interest yet (which may just be an issue of reach / awareness), it's difficult to justify spending as much time as I'd like.  I wish I could work on it full time and just make the best writing app that exists.  But I can't promise a ton of updates at the moment.

I also want to get your opinion on something.  It seems people like the design and themes, but not really how limited it is and how it's just for rough drafts.  I get the impression that most people don't want to use multiple apps in their process, even if Protowords is better for writing, and will just stick with all-in-1 apps unless Protowords becomes that as well.  What do you think about that? What if it also had worldbuilding tools, rich text (bold/italics), theme customization, etc? Does it lose something in your eyes to be less minimalist?

https://protowords.itch.io/protowords

It's an immersive writing app for rough drafts.  If you're into writing fiction novels, please check it out and let me know what you think. 

-Paul