GoSaveTool Text Counter

Live word, character and reading-time counts for the open note or the selected text, with the character limits of social media posts and SEO fields. Write a post, caption or meta description in Obsidian and see at a glance whether it fits.

The counting rules are the same as the free online GoSaveTool character counter and the @gosavetool/text package.

Features

• Status bar: words, characters and reading time, updated as you type. Click it to open the panel.
• Counter panel: words, characters, characters without spaces, sentences, lines and reading time.
• Selection aware: select text to count only that part.
• Character limits with a progress bar and how many characters are left or over:

• Ignores Markdown syntax (optional): frontmatter, comments, link targets and formatting marks are left out, so the count matches what a reader sees.
• Copy counts command puts a summary of the counts and limits on the clipboard.
• Adjustable reading speed (238 words a minute by default). Works on desktop and mobile, with no network access.

Commands

• Open text counter
• Copy counts of the note or selection

Install

From Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for "GoSaveTool Text Counter".

Manually: copy main.js, manifest.json and styles.css into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/gosavetool-text-counter/, then turn the plugin on in Settings → Community plugins.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test

More free tools

GoSaveTool has free online tools for text, images, subtitles and video downloads, with no sign-up.

License

MIT