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\title{The Fitbit of Research Writing~~~~}


\author[ ]{Josh Nicholson}

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At Authorea we're constantly thinking about how to make research writing
easier, faster, and more robust from initial idea all the way through
publication. Beyond stressing over making Authorea an impeccable
experience and tool for researchers, we also like to think outside of
the box for new innovative features that may not be on our immediate
radar but are things we'd like to focus on at some point in the near
future. Authorea X, if you like.

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Today, we'd like to ask for your feedback on one of the new ideas we're
working on. We actively sought your feedback when we redesigned our new
editor and would like to continue to involve researchers in the
development of Authorea as much as possible. After all, we're building a
great experience for you!

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In our latest brainstorming session, we discussed how we could help
researchers improve their writing beyond what we're currently doing.
~Specifically, how could we make the writing process one informed by
data? ~We identified a few key things we thought were important to the
researcher based on requests as well as on our own observations and came
up with what we're tentatively calling: ``the Authorea Fitbit of
research writing.'' ~

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\subsection*{The Authorea Fitbit of
research}\label{the-authorea-fitbit-of-research}

While there are numerous metrics aimed at measuring the output of a
researcher and the impact of their work~\cite{Abbott_2010}, there is no
easy way to track how a researcher is writing. ~Some researchers have
started manually keeping track of their writing progress on Twitter like
the online
\href{https://twitter.com/search?q=\%23AcWrimo\&src=typd}{\#acwrimo}~community
or the
\href{https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g4oo_kiqmJIlpoC2szfsoI7hj-QpjJQrPk9aiAIoAoo/pubhtml}{``thesis-writing
tracker''} by Achintya Rao of CERN but this is somewhat laborious and
really just added work. ~We think we can do better than a daily tally.
~We can automatically track your writing patterns and share with you in
a useful dashboard your typical behavior as well as your progress over a
certain period of time. With such a system we would hope to be able to
provide answers to the following:

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  What time do I write most frequently at? ~
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  What are the most common words that I use? ~
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  How frequently do I write?
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  How many words am I writing per day, per week, and per year?
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These are the things that we think researchers may like to know and thus
we started quickly mocking up what this could look like on Authorea.
~Our mocks are just initial sketches, heavily inspired by Github, and we
hope, with your feedback, that they could become something very useful
to researchers. ~What would you track about your writing if you could?
Tweet at us~\href{https://twitter.com/authorea}{@authorea} or leave a
comment on Facebook or this article!~

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