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Universal Search-and-Replace

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Equal Pigeon

A search-and-REPLACE option in Codex so we can change the names of characters / objects / locations universally across multiple entries with one click. It would save a lot of time instead of manually updating each separate Codex entry.

November 17, 2023

Revolutionary Swordtail

Plus one! What would also be cool would be a feature that could rename a Codex entry wherever it appeared (but I’d want find/replace as a separate function as well). That would let us change the name of a character easily, but also easily find every instance of “like a physical blow” and deal with them appropriately.

spaceemotion

Merged in a post:

GLOBAL WORD SWAP, per book.

Zephyr Caribou

Would be AWESOME and actually logical to have a full book word-replace. For instance, if the name of a character needs to be changed, having the ability to change that spelling of that word for the entire book. Word Swap. As we are developing worlds, sometimes we decide to change the name of items or characters. It's a massive time consuming task to go through a book to find all instances to be changed.

September 1, 2025

Blizzard blue Halibut

I would like the feature to be automatic. If you change the name of an Codex entry it would auto update all entries to match the change (also Aliases/nicknames). As an example I have 1,000 uses of the name of character and now I want to change the spelling. Simply changing it in the codex would change all entires of that name.

Jolly Otter

Up vote, have to change the name of the main character. Manually doing this will be annoying without this feature.

Teal Firefly

Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease add Search-and-Replace asap!! I am not too proud to beg!! :)

Extra Swan

Very much looking forward to this! So happy to see it is in progress! I'm finishing up the editing phase and the only thing left to do is replace all the names for characters and other entities...any chance this feature is released in the next month or so? Trying to decide if I should just suck it up and manually go through replacing names, or hold out for a search-and-replace feature!

Love the app, keep up the great work!

Smooth Pigeon

I vote yes for the search-and-replace, it is definitely a necessity.

Courageous Gazelle

It is a basic necessity, when writing, to change elements by grouped replacements. It absolutely needs to be added to the application.

Eggplant Stoat

Yes please. Add regex or at the very least a way to catch newlines

Xanadu Quail

Not having this feature is a MASSIVE oversight. Please do make this happen!

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