Track your writing progress  

If you want to get serious about writing, the first commitment you must make is to write every day. Sounds easy ? More than often, it's not. You will come up with excuses like "why do I need to write if I haven't got ideas ? And it's not NaNoWriMo... Why bother ?"
Soon you'll learn that procrastination is a very bad thing for your (writing) health. (But that's another story)

Tracking your writing progress is a great way to ensure you're doing your daily duty. Here are four tools which can help you, both online and offline.

Excel : numbers, cells, formulas. Do I need to introduce it ?

• Pros : you can track everything. What is your writing pace ? How many words left ? And what about a cool graph to sum up everything ?
  
• Cons : seeing all these numbers can make you focus on quantity rather than regularity.
  

Joe's Goals : a website where you can track the achievement of mini-goals throughout the weeks.

• Pros : much more minimalistic than Excel. You only have to check a little box to validate your writing day. So you focus more on your regularity.
  
• Cons : since it's a webpage with login and everything, you may forget to update it.
  

A regular calendar : get a monthly view (or yearly view) calendar and color your writing days.

• Pros : everyone can see if you're writing regularly and blame you when you "break the chain". No computer needed.
• Cons : no difference is made between days where you wrote 3 words and the ones where you wrote 3,000.

A regular logbook : buy a notebook/agenda and write down your daily wordcount.

• Pros : there's also room for comments about how you felt about your writing (or to-do lists, plot flashes... you get the idea).
  
• Cons : hard to get an overview of your monthly/yearly progress.
  

I tested these four methods (and many combinations, too) and for the moment, I'm using the regular calendar + the logbook. But what about you ? Which tools do you use to track your progress, your wordcount or your regularity ?