# Linking Scrivener **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [January 6, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398 "2015-01-06T18:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ollyrichards](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/ollyrichards/32/162_2.png) [@ollyrichards](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/ollyrichards)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/1 "2015-01-06T18:51:30Z")
Are there any plans to link Scrivener to Beeminder? If not, is there any workaround, because I really the software. I’ve been using Draft with great success, but the organisational tools of Scrivener are really handy. ---
**Author:** ![bradleydeanwoods](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/bradleydeanwoods/32/141_2.png) [@bradleydeanwoods](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/bradleydeanwoods)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/2 "2015-01-07T21:01:32Z")
You could store your scrivener on dropbox and when your done working backup to dropbox. Then you make a zap that will update your goal everytime that file is updated. ---
**Author:** ![bigmusic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@bigmusic](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/bigmusic)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/3 "2015-01-11T20:01:01Z")
I’ve been using the twitter notification widget inside of Scrivener. Project | Show Project Targets | and click the little blue twitter bird. That tweet should populate with # of words as the first word (as configured in the project utility). I select all extraneous info and put a project tag into the tweet. So the tweet looks something like this 300 #Novel Then IFTTT picks up the tweet. > **[Scrivener to Beeminder](https://ifttt.com/applets/238927p-scrivener-to-beeminder)** > > Scrivener word count to beeminder, done via the project panel in Scrivener. > > Project | Show Project Targets | and click the little blue twitter bird. That tweet should populate with # of words as the first word (as configured in the project utility).... It doesn’t run immediately, but it works. I’ve been looking for a way to automate it more but Scrivener doesn’t make it easy to get the word count out in a scriptable way. ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/4 "2015-01-22T11:20:22Z")
If you happen to be using [Tinderbox](http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) alongside Scrivener, you could have an agent [run a command](http://www.acrobatfaq.com/atbref5/index/ActionsRules/Operators/FullOperatorList/runCommandcommandLineinp.html), such as [lydgate’s bmndr](https://github.com/lydgate/bmndr) script, to update a Beeminder goal. ---
**Author:** ![ndanda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/ndanda/32/110_2.png) [@ndanda](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/ndanda)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/5 "2015-01-24T02:52:27Z")
Great idea about twitter. Will try. ---
**Author:** ![tyelmene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/tyelmene/32/861_2.png) [@tyelmene](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/tyelmene)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/6 "2016-02-26T12:17:08Z")
I’ve been able to get the added benefit of sharing work with reviewers/editors by syncing my Scrivener project files in Dropbox, so this may be a useful work around for me, but I strongly second the originating Scrivener integration request (specifically around a contributed words written/time frame) as (IMHO) Scrivener is the very best (and most important) writer’s/content creator’s work platform both available in the market and to monitor writing work rate from (it has an extensive built in stat function)! ---
**Author:** ![tyelmene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/tyelmene/32/861_2.png) [@tyelmene](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/tyelmene)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/7 "2016-02-26T12:18:40Z")
Thanks! I 'll try this. ---
**Author:** ![fidel\_namisi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fidel\_namisi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/fidel_namisi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/linking-scrivener/398/8 "2024-07-23T07:43:33Z")
I’m hoping this will come soon via Integrating this app: > **[WordCounter for macOS](https://wordcounterapp.com/)** > > Mac WordCounter app automatically tracks how many words you write to increase your productivity