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[Bug] Words Count Stat is Incorrect #43
Description
I have a large Markdown document which Obsidian reports as 127,260 words but Zennotes only reports 34,608 words.
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I have a large Markdown document which Obsidian reports as 127,260 words but Zennotes only reports 34,608 words.
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adibhanna commentedon May 12, 2026
Thanks for the report, @rrpolanco — confirmed and fixed in #47.
Root cause: the StatusBar word counter was stripping fenced code blocks and inline code spans before splitting on whitespace. Obsidian counts those tokens, so a code-heavy document like yours lost a huge fraction of its words. The 127,260 → 34,608 ratio you saw (~73% loss) is consistent with a doc containing a lot of code.
Verification: I reproduced it locally with a 76-word test note containing two fenced code blocks and two inline-code spans. The buggy build showed 52 words; with the patch it shows 76 (matching a manual hand-count and Obsidian).
The fix will land in the next release.
fix: count words inside code blocks and inline code (#43) (#47)
adibhanna commentedon May 12, 2026
Merged to main in #47 — will ship in the next release. Thanks again for the report, @rrpolanco!
rrpolanco commentedon May 12, 2026
Thanks for shipping this quickly @adibhanna !
rrpolanco commentedon May 13, 2026
@adibhanna The app is still reporting a different word count compared to Obsidian. Obsidian reports 127,260 words but Zennotes counts 82,448. However, the character count matches with Obsidian with
1,385,437.