Dabble has a special feature just for NaNoWriMo.

If you choose to participate in NaNoWriMo, Dabble will:

You need to create an account with NaNoWriMo before you can begin connecting Dabble with NaNoWriMo.

After you have an account at NaNoWriMo, go to Dabble and log in.

When you log into Dabble, you will be invited to participate in NaNoWriMo up to a month before the big event. You first need to "Authenticate with NaNoWriMo”.

Clicking the Authenticate with NaNoWriMo with open up a pop up:

Use your NaNoWriMo credentials and log into your account. You will see the screen change to reflect your authentication:

To finish connecting your account you need to click the blue join button. It may say "Join Challenge", "Extend your Trial", or "Start your trail" or any of those variations. You must do this to extend your trial and link your account to automatically sync your word counts to NaNoWriMo from Dabble as you type.

If you decline with “No thanks” Dabble will not ask you anymore about participating this year. If you change your mind, you can open this invite back up by clicking on your account menu (top-right) and choosing the “NaNoWriMo/Challenge” menu item.

After you accept the invitation, Dabble will ask you to enter some information in order to track your NaNoWriMo goals and automatically submit you word count. You will need to:

If you do not see a project listed in #2 you need to set up your project correct at NaNoWriMo.
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Your project at NaNoWriMo must be linked to the current NaNoWriMo Event. You can do this by clicking on the appropriate button on the NaNoWriMo Dashboard.

Or by going to My NaNoWriMo → Projects
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Click Create a New Project Button:
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In order to connect your account to Dabble you must HAVE the checkmark that says "Associate with a NaNoWriMo event (optional) checked and choose the correct event.
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Dabble only syncs with officially sanctioned NaNoWriMo events, it will not sync with any other project.

Your NaNoWriMo project should look like this with the Event and an official NaNoWriMo event icon above the progress bar.

Once you are all setup, continue to the goal settings.

Dabble calculates your target daily word count during the month of NaNoWriMo. To do this accurately, Dabble needs to know your target word count (by default this is 50,000) and how many working days you have left.

If you know you will not be able to write on a given day or two, you can mark those days off. In the NaNoWriMo Goals dialog, click on days during the month to toggle them on or off. This will affect your daily word count to be more accurate.

You can also enter your own custom word count goal here.

Once you are all set up, you will see Dabble’s NaNoWriMo tracker in the right-hand column of your project when your NaNoWriMo project is selected. You will not see the NaNoWriMo branding in your other projects.

The tracker will show you today’s goal and how many words you have written today in the top section. Below the line you will see how many days are left, total words written, and total remaining.

Below the stats is a simple bar-chart for visualizing your words written during the month, highlighting today in blue. Mouse over the bars to see a tooltip with historical word count.

To readjust goals or update settings, you can open the dialog under the account menu (top-right) and select NaNoWriMo. See:

If you want to have a more aggressive goal at the beginning of the month to account for unplanned slow days later, you can mark some days off at the end of the month in NaNoWriMo Goals (e.g. take the whole last week off) and then unmark them when it gets closer.

The NaNoWriMo sidebar, menu item, and settings will automatically be removed 15 days after NaNoWriMo is finished. It is only available during/around the event and will not bother you all year long.

Every project can have a set goal!

You can continue writing offline and the word count will be updated once you are online. I you spent the day writing offline and didn't get online until the next day (or week), and if you want to ensure the days are correct for your NaNoWriMo submission, you may have to fix it manually. You can see exactly how many words were written each day by hovering over the bars in the graph in the right sidebar. We are unable to backdate the word submission to the correct day at this time because the NaNoWriMo connection does not allow us, even though we accurately track which day the words were written.

Dabble tracks your words by session and by day. It will split your words accurately at the midnight boundary in your stats, but it can only update the "current word count" when sending it over to NaNoWriMo. If you want it perfectly distributed on NaNoWriMo's website, you will need to update it manually.

Go to NaNoWriMo.org and after signing in (if you aren't already), go to your project page by clicking on the link in the My NaNoWriMo menu.

If you are creating a new project, at the top of the Project's screen click Announce New Project and fill out the details. Be sure you have the checkbox clicked and event selected for NaNoWriMo 2019.

If you are trying to get an existing project associated with November's event, click on that project's title to go to its page. Click on the "Goals" tab, choose Create New Goal, then check the box at the top to associate it with the event and select the current NaNoWriMo event. If you don't see this year's event listed, it is because another project is associated with the event. You will have to delete that project or it's goal.