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Two numbers, one chip

"12 pp." sat on the card and said nothing about whether that scene had actually been written yet, or was only planned. Same three letters, different meaning depending which screen you were looking at.

The fix is a glyph, not more words: blank for a plan, dog-eared once a line of it exists, and the number itself only reads 4 / 6.5 when paper and plan actually disagree. Paper leads the moment there's any of it.

The nicer discovery underneath: one function, pagesSentence, now builds the screen-reader text, the tooltip, the export line, and the AI's own budget prompt. A scene reading "pages 12-15" in the sidebar and "6.5 pages" in the export were never two different facts. Just two tenses of the same one, finally coming from the same sentence instead of four screens each guessing.