What gets measured gets managed

Posted on January 19th, 2008 by Sacha Chua

I spent the afternoon working on a progress meter for my writing. I like measuring things, and I think this will help keep me motivated. Besides, I wanted an excuse to hack. ;)

I initially wrote this in PHP, but then I converted it to Emacs Lisp just for kicks. I like my Emacs code better. =)

Here’s where I am right now:

7: Managing Your Notes

3655 of 16000 words

Wicked Cool Emacs

I still have to tweak the code a bit before I feel comfortable putting it out there, but if this works, then cool!

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