I’ll be starting hardcore thesis writing in a month or so. For measurement and motivation reasons, I’ve been advised to keep track of progress (e.g. word count added per day). Therefore, I have open sourced a “thesis-o-meter” tool, which I hope will help me.

https://github.com/Wheest/thesis-o-meter

There are a few other metrics and analysis tools that I’ll add to it as time goes on, however if anyone else wants to use or improve it, feel free.

The README has a roadmap, as well as system critique.