# Beemind Writing With Multiple Text Files

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-writing-with-multiple-text-files/5281>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [May 2, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-writing-with-multiple-text-files/5281 "2019-05-02T10:33:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-writing-with-multiple-text-files/5281/1 "2019-05-02T10:33:13Z")

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My particular use case is a LaTeX document which is separated into multiple chapters having their own .tex file each.  
I could put all that on some http accessible storage and use URLMinder to count the number of words in the .tex files except that it obviously can’t mind [http://example.com/files/\*.tex](http://example.com/files/*.tex) but only one URL.

Are there any ready solutions for this or do I have to cobble something up myself?

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**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-writing-with-multiple-text-files/5281/2 "2019-05-02T14:54:47Z")

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Does it make more sense to compile it into a single doc anyway, rather than look at the markup’s word count?

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**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-writing-with-multiple-text-files/5281/3 "2019-05-02T15:11:53Z")

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Technically yes but I’ll take a good (enough) approximation with 0 effort over a correct solution with \> 0 effort in this particular case.

I shall see if the build process of my LaTeX editor leaves behind a file that is a single doc (even with markup). There are ways to convert LaTeX code to txt but that’s already \> 0 and I don’t mind if it is 450 words of English or 450 words of Markup that I write. Everything is better than 0 😃

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**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-writing-with-multiple-text-files/5281/4 "2019-05-03T21:14:36Z")

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@adamwolf Well this is embarrassing 🤦‍♂️

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/a/af61a5162a147d4bf32876e64c89c601ec2242c2.png)

Turns out it can in fact count words from multiple URLs. Did not expect that. At all. I did so much not expect that that I didn’t even bother to try 😕  
It still can’t do \*.tex (for obvious™ reasons) but it’s way better than what I gave it credit. Whoops.