Guide/Part Four · Plan & focus

Goals, sprints & calendar

The Productivity panel keeps your momentum with a daily word-count goal, a sprint timer, and a writing calendar.

1. In Draft, open the Productivity panel (Ctrl+Shift+P / ⌘⇧P), or click its edge tab, the alarm clock on the left side of the window.
2. Under Daily Goal, enter a number of words in Goal. The emerald progress bar fills as you write in this document. When you reach the goal, the page flashes green and Goal met appears. A goal counts even if you set it after you’ve started writing: if you’re already past it, the page flashes as soon as you enter it.
3. To keep going, click the plus button beside the goal (Add a stretch goal) and enter a number of words on top of your goal. Add more to stack them, up to ten. Each time you reach one, the page flashes again and the panel shows Stretch goal met, then 2 stretch goals met, and so on. Your goal and stretch goals stay set from one day to the next. Remove a stretch goal with the button at the end of its row, or all of them with Clear stretch goals.
4. Under Sprint Timer, click the time to set the sprint length in minutes (1 to 120; the default is 25), then click Start. Use Pause, Resume, and Reset while it runs. The page flashes amber when the sprint ends. Check Show timer to keep a small timer in the bottom-left corner of the window, so you can see the time left while you work.
5. Check Hemingway mode to disable Backspace and Delete while a sprint is running. They work again as soon as the sprint is paused, ends, or is reset, or when you clear the checkbox.