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  We count more things than we realize. Reps at the gym, people walking through a door, cars passing on a road, stitches in a knitting row, laps in a pool, drinks at an event. For most of these we still reach for a scrap of paper, a note on our phone, or those little mechanical clickers you see at concert entrances. All of them work, sort of, until the paper gets lost or your thumb loses track. A browser-based counter fixes most of that, and you probably already have everything you need to use one. Here is how they work and when they actually beat the old methods. What an online counter really is At its simplest, an online counter is a big number on a screen with a button to add one and a button to take one away. You open a page, you tap, the number goes up. No app to install, no account to create, nothing to sync. The good ones do a few things that make them worth using instead of the Notes app: They remember your count. Close the tab, come back an hour later, and the number is s...