Implement Text Statistics (aka 'word count')

[SR--]

Please select if your request is either something new or an enhancement

• Enhancement of an existing Feature.
• Request of a new feature.

Please select the area your request applies to. (Multiple selections are Possible. You can leave blank if you're not sure.)

• Workspace - VSCode workspace, vaults, Intellisense/autocomplete, Dendron settings
• Lookup - Dendron's Lookup Command
• Views - Dendron Preview, Tree View, Side Panels in the UI
• Schema - Dendron Schemas
• Pod - Data import from / export to Dendron
• Publish - External Site Publish
• Markdown - Markdown features, such as syntax support and features

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

It is often importnant to know the text statistics for planning, publication, work accounting and other reasons. At the moment, there is no convenient way to do it in the Preview.

Describe the solution you'd like

Implement text statistics (needs to be counting in Preview to ignore links, Markdown symbols, note references, etc. as well as in the Markdown editor window). WordCounter - Visual Studio Marketplace is very good but it only works in one (current) note. It also works in the source text of the note while the meaningful count is in the rendered note.

Desired features:

• Word count
• Character count
• Estimated reading speed with customisable reading time
• Differentiate between body text and footnote, count together and separately
• Customisable word targets per note, per heading, limited by anchors (maybe) and words remaining
• Meaningful Word Count For Your Markdown
• Integrate the work count numbers into the Outline (optionally)?
• Integrate the word count numbers into the graph (optionally)?
• Allow cumulative statistics for a selection of notes, for example as defined by a saved query
• Support saving/export of relevant statistics

Examples:

• Roam has {{word-count}} and {{character-count}} features. Upper and lower anchors for counting might be interesting.
• You can also query and sort by word count in Roam.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Existing vscode extentions, but they do not count the rendered HTML.
• You can copy from Preview and paste into MS Word or similar but this is far from ideal.

[Harshita-mindfire]

Thanks @SR-- for the suggestion.

[aleksey-rowan]

This issue is featured in this week's round of CROP.