Feature Request: Countable Blocks

[mayurankv]

Often I want to find the word count of a specific section of a document. i.e. if I'm planning out word restricted questions in obsidian. This plugin really helps as you can highlight the words you want to submit but unfortunately this includes highlighting the whole section every time. Would it be possible to implement some functionality where you could put some markers at the start and end of a section and at the end of that section it would display the word count below the block in the preview section? This could be in the status bar or shown in preview mode. This would allow you to keep track of word count whilst you edit that specific section. Thank you!

[abers]

Came here to make a similar suggestion. Another (/additional) way this could be implemented would be to use header levels and have a word count breakdown as a panel. So, for example, displaying the word count for each header section, and include in brackets the total word count for each header level. Such as:

H1 - 100 (750) H2 - 200 (250) H3 - 50 H2 - 400

[UXPublishing]

I just realized that Better Word Count can display word counts next to the heading for a specific section.

Would it be possible to display character counts or other measures as well?

Edit: I have been testing out the Section word count feature and I was wondering if something else was possible. Could there also be an option to do the following?

• Display the Heading text's word and/or character count next to the Heading.
• Display the Section text's word and/or character count next to the first line of the Section text. For example, display the count next to the first line of the paragraph, line item, or list item. In this scenario, to avoid confusion, it seems like the Headings would then have to be counted in the cumulative counts displaying on the top level Headings.