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Novlr Team
Sep 11, 2024

At the moment, if a character or location name changes, it is time-consuming to go through the whole project manually to change those things. Search and replace would make this much easier.

Related to this is wiki-style tagging, so you could tag characters, locations, objects, etc., with notes, which would automatically change the name if the note name was changed and the item tagged.

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Bill
Apr 17, 2025

Novlr, is there any update on the search and replace function? I really enjoyed using Novlr for my first novel (to be published November 2025 through UWA publishing, Australia), but the lack of this function caused me issues. I had to convert to Word and then finish the draft of there as I had a lot of name changes. Now I want to start on my second novel but without this function, I may have to use other software. And if this is the case, I will have to stop my novlr subscription. Please, this is letting Novlr down and will lead to subscribers leaving. Thanks.

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Pamela Koehne-Drube
Apr 18, 2025

Bill no concrete date yet, but this is something we're actively thinking about. We are working on some fundamental changes to our app, and search and replace is always on our minds.

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Stjepan
Jan 27, 2025

The lack of this feature is the most important reason why I don't use Novrl. Every day, I write two short texts that I later use for other works. And it is very important to me that I can find where I have written something.

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Kathleen
Jan 15, 2025

Everything I need to say has been said. However, as an author there are times when you realize you must change a name, or spelling of a word, and they are throughout your 80,000 word opus. To have to search with my eyes is not only tedious, but I miss some of them. Please, do whatever it takes to please add this capability to Novlr. PLEASE.

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Stuart
Nov 29, 2024

Absolutely! We need a global search facility, and tags per chapter and up. I rely on Tags to help me identify which chapters are at which stage. Global search and replace would save a lot of time sorting. Novlr already has half of this in place for this road map.

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Paula
Nov 4, 2024

Hi, to me this is a basic that should already be in place. I am nearing the end of my novel and I want to change my protagonist name.... Also it be useful to search for particular terms or phrases, as I want to check if I have used something too much...

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Linden
Oct 29, 2024

Brand new user… kinda shocked this isn’t a feature already.

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Lael
Oct 11, 2024

Please! Search amd replace would be very very helpful!!!

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Hannah
Oct 7, 2024

This feature would be so helpful! If I can’t remember which chapter a certain thing took place or was said I have to either scroll through chapters until I maybe find it or download it to word and then search, which is frustrating.

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Jack
Oct 13, 2024

Hannah Agreed - a global search would be so helpful, even without the replace function. (My character tells someone she has no siblings, which I now need to change, but I can't remember who she told, or when!)

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Brendan
Oct 2, 2024

Not having this is the main blocker preventing me from making Novlr my primary tool

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Leah
Oct 2, 2024

Whole document search would literally change my life in Novlr. One thing that may make this easier is a full-manuscript or revision/editing mode, where you switch into a view where you're looking at the document as a whole (this is another high upvote feature in the list people are talking about, I see...it seems related).

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Amanda
Oct 2, 2024

Yes, yes, yes!

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Michael
Sep 29, 2024

Full document search and search/replace would be a game changer on this, especially when you have A LOT of chapters.

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Pamela Koehne-Drube
Sep 13, 2024
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