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Occura for Obsidian

Find and highlight all occurrences of selected text in notes, similar to Notepad++ or IDEs.

Best For

writerseditorsresearchersstudentsacademics

Key Use Cases

  • Reviewing repeated terms in a document
  • Identifying all occurrences of a keyword for consistency checks
  • Editorial work on long notes where multiple instances of a phrase need to be updated

Pros

  • Simple and intuitive operation
  • Mimics familiar functionality from text editors and IDEs
  • Lightweight and fast

Limitations

  • Limited to exact text selection; no regex or pattern matching
  • May not work across multiple notes or vaults

Tags

findhighlightoccurrencessearchtext-searchselection

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