From 872845dadd82b9734eea713fdca6d2da0092c3d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manuel Ebert <manuel@1450.me>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:22:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Statistics ideas

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 docs/recipes.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/recipes.rst b/docs/recipes.rst
index 253392b9..5d40660c 100644
--- a/docs/recipes.rst
+++ b/docs/recipes.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,19 @@ You can do things like ::
 
 To get a short summary of the 10 most recent, favourited entries before January 1, 2013 that are tagged with ``@fixed``.
 
+Statistics
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+How much did I write last year? ::
+
+    jrnl -from "jan 1 2013" -until "dec 31 2013" | wc -w
+
+Will give you the number of words you wrote in 2013. How long is my average entry? ::
+
+    expr $(jrnl --export text | wc -w) / $(jrnl --short | wc -l)
+
+This will first get the total number of words in the journal and divide it by the number of entries (this works because ``jrnl --short`` will print exactly one line per entry).
+
 External editors
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