Can I import my old word-count history into Authorlytica?

Yes. Authorlytica imports a CSV of your past sessions. Export your history from a spreadsheet or your old tracker as CSV, upload it, map the columns, and your sessions come in. Authorlytica creates any projects named in the file.

What do I need in the CSV?

At minimum a date and a word count per row. A project name column lets the import sort sessions into the right projects; a unit column (words, pages, or lines) is useful if you track in more than one. Anything extra is ignored, so an export from another tool usually works with light cleanup.

Can I move my data from Pacemaker, TrackBear, or a spreadsheet?

Yes, as long as you can get a CSV out of it. Spreadsheets export CSV directly. Trackers that offer a CSV export, such as TrackBear, can be imported the same way. For tools without an export, you can often rebuild a simple date-and-words CSV by hand for the history you care about.

Does my actual writing get imported?

No, and that is by design. Authorlytica stores counts, dates, and goals, not your manuscript. The import brings in the numbers about your writing, never the prose itself.

Will my streaks and achievements reflect the imported history?

Imported sessions become part of your record, so your totals and charts include them. Some streak and achievement logic is based on real-time daily activity, so a back-dated import fills in your history without necessarily reconstructing a live streak from years ago.

How to Import Your Writing History into Authorlytica

The short version

Get your old history out as a CSV, upload it into Authorlytica, map a couple of columns, and your sessions are in. Authorlytica creates any projects named in the file. The rest of this is just the detail.

Export a CSV

From a spreadsheet or your old tracker, export your history as a CSV file.

Check the columns

Make sure each row has at least a date and a word count. A project column is a useful bonus.

Upload and map

Open import in your settings, pick the file, match the columns, and confirm. Authorlytica creates any projects named in the file.

Step 1: Export a CSV from wherever your data lives

Almost everything can produce a CSV:

A spreadsheet. Excel and Google Sheets both export CSV directly from the File menu. If you have tracked word counts in a sheet, you are most of the way there already.
Another tracker. Tools that offer a CSV export, such as TrackBear, hand you a file you can use straight away. Check the tool's settings or data page for an export option.
A tracker without export. Some tools, including older or closed apps, do not export cleanly. In that case, rebuild a simple sheet by hand with the history that actually matters to you. You rarely need every session from years ago.

Step 2: Make sure the columns make sense

The import needs a row per writing session and, at minimum, two things in each row:

A date. When the session happened.
A word count. How much you wrote that session.

Two optional columns make the result better. A project column lets the import sort sessions into the right books, and any project it names is created automatically. A unit column (words, pages, or lines) keeps things correct if you track in more than one. Extra columns you do not need are simply ignored, so an export from another tool usually only needs light tidying.

Step 3: Upload and map

Open import in settings, pick your file, match the columns. Date and words are required; project and unit are optional. Confirm once and the sessions come in. If a project in the file does not exist yet, Authorlytica creates it.

What transfers, and what does not

Transfers: your sessions, their dates, the word counts, and the projects they belong to. Your totals and charts include them right away.
Does not transfer: your actual prose. Authorlytica stores counts and goals, never your manuscript, so there is no text to bring across. Authorlytica never touches your writing, only the counts, which is also why export is unrestricted.
Back-dated imports fill in your history, but live streak logic keys off real-time activity, so a multi-year streak does not reconstruct itself.

And you can leave just as easily

The reason import matters is the same reason export does: your history should be yours to move. Authorlytica lets you export everything at any time, on every plan, with no email request and no waiting, including a full backup and a CSV of all your sessions. You can come in from a spreadsheet and, if you ever want to, walk back out to one. No lock-in is the point.

Coming from a spreadsheet for good?

If this import is you finally retiring a tracking spreadsheet, two reads will help: how to track your writing without spreadsheets and Authorlytica vs Excel. Both cover what you gain once the formulas are someone else's problem.

Bring your writing history with you.