Local Text Tools Plugin for Obsidian

Text Manipulation Tools Plugin for Obsidian with simple commands that run locally in your vault.

An Obsidian plugin that provides ~80 text manipulation commands accessible from the Command Palette with the prefix Local Text Tools:.

Commands Overview

Category	Representative Commands
Case / Format	Upper case, Lower case, camelCase, PascalCase, CONSTANT_CASE, dash-case, snake_case, dot.case, Title Case, sPoNgE cAsE, Swap case, Slugify, Latinize
Line Operations	Sort (6 modes), Shuffle, Remove/keep duplicates, Trim, Prefix/Suffix/Wrap lines, Split/Join lines, Pad start/end, Count occurrences
Filter Lines	Keep or remove lines matching a string or regex — in-place or into a new note (8 commands)
Encoding	URL encode/decode, HTML entity encode/decode, Base64 encode/decode, JSON escape/unescape, Decimal ↔ Hex
Numbers	Increase/decrease all integers by 1 or a custom step
Generate	4 GUID formats, random int/float/hex, Lorem ipsum, 7 sequences (letters, NATO, months, days), 3 timestamp formats
Advanced	Format as table, Extract with regex (capture groups), Duplicate selection
Text Slots	5 persistent named clipboard entries (set / paste)
Line Numbers	Sequential (1, 2, 3…) or real file line numbers

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Installation

1. Open Obsidian Settings → Community Plugins → Browse.
2. Search for "Local Text Tools" and click Install.
3. Enable the plugin under Settings → Community Plugins.
4. Optionally configure plugin parameters via Settings → Local Text Tools.

Manual install: Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release and copy them into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/text-tools/.

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Usage

1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl/Cmd + P).
2. Type Local Text Tools: followed by the command name (e.g. Local Text Tools: Upper case).
3. The command is applied to each active selection. If nothing is selected, you will be prompted to select text first.

Some commands open a small modal to collect additional input (e.g. the delimiter for Split lines, or the range for Insert random integer).

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Features

Case / Format

Command	Description
Upper case	Convert selected text to UPPERCASE
Lower case	Convert selected text to lowercase
camelCase	Convert to camelCase
PascalCase	Convert to PascalCase
CONSTANT_CASE	Convert to CONSTANT_CASE
Dash case (kebab-case)	Convert to dash-case
Snake case	Convert to snake_case
Dot case	Convert to dot.case
Title case	Convert to Title Case
sPoNgE cAsE	Convert to alternating sPoNgE cAsE
Swap case	Swap the case of each character
Separate words with spaces	Remove separators, join with spaces
Separate words with slashes	Remove separators, join with /
Separate words with backslashes	Remove separators, join with \
Reverse characters on each line	Reverse the character order per line
Slugify	Convert to URL-friendly slug
Latinize (remove diacritics)	Strip accents and diacritical marks

Line Operations

Command	Description
Sort lines (case sensitive / insensitive, A→Z / Z→A)	4 alphabetical sort variants
Sort lines by length (shortest / longest first)	2 length sort variants
Sort lines by word count (fewest / most first)	2 word-count sort variants
Shuffle lines	Randomise line order
Remove duplicate lines	Keep only the first occurrence of each line
Remove adjacent duplicate lines	Deduplicate consecutive identical lines
Keep only duplicate lines	Keep only lines that appear more than once
Remove blank lines	Remove lines that contain only whitespace
Remove empty lines	Remove completely empty lines
Remove surplus blank lines	Collapse multiple blank lines to one
Trim leading and trailing whitespace	Trim both ends of each line
Trim leading whitespace	Trim the start of each line
Trim trailing whitespace	Trim the end of each line
Remove all whitespace characters	Strip every whitespace character
Replace newlines with a space	Join lines with a space
Collapse whitespace to single space	Reduce all runs of whitespace to one space
Count line occurrences	Prefix each unique line with its count
Prefix lines	Add a string before every line
Suffix lines	Add a string after every line
Wrap lines	Add a prefix and suffix to every line
Split lines by delimiter	Split each line at a delimiter into multiple lines
Join all lines with a glue string	Join all lines using a glue string
Join every N lines	Group lines into blocks of N and join each block
Pad lines at start	Left-pad each line to a target length
Pad lines at end	Right-pad each line to a target length

Filter Lines

Command	Description
Filter lines: keep matching string	Keep only lines containing a string
Filter lines: remove matching string	Remove lines containing a string
Filter lines: keep matching regex	Keep only lines matching a regex
Filter lines: remove matching regex	Remove lines matching a regex
Filter lines into new note: keep matching string	Same as above, output to a new note
Filter lines into new note: remove matching string	Same as above, output to a new note
Filter lines into new note: keep matching regex	Same as above, output to a new note
Filter lines into new note: remove matching regex	Same as above, output to a new note

Filter commands remember the last 10 queries used.

Encoding

Command	Description
URL encode	Percent-encode special characters
URL decode	Decode percent-encoded characters
HTML entity encode	Encode <, >, &, ", ' as HTML entities
HTML entity decode	Decode HTML entities
Base64 encode	Encode to Base64
Base64 decode	Decode from Base64
JSON escape (to string)	Escape text as a JSON string literal
JSON unescape	Unescape a JSON string literal
Convert decimal to hex	Convert each decimal integer to hexadecimal
Convert hex to decimal	Convert each hexadecimal value to decimal

Numbers

Command	Description
Increase numbers by 1	Increment every integer in the selection
Decrease numbers by 1	Decrement every integer in the selection
Increase numbers by custom step	Increment by a specified amount
Decrease numbers by custom step	Decrement by a specified amount

Generate / Insert

Command	Description
Insert GUID (with dashes)	Insert a UUID v4 xxxxxxxx-xxxx-…
Insert GUID (no dashes)	Insert a UUID v4 without dashes
Insert GUID (with braces)	Insert a UUID v4 {xxxxxxxx-…}
Insert GUID (C# constructor)	Insert new Guid("…")
Insert random integer from range	Random integer between min and max
Insert random real number from range	Random floating-point number
Insert random hexadecimal number from range	Random hex value
Insert lorem ipsum sentence	Insert a single Lorem Ipsum sentence
Insert lorem ipsum paragraph	Insert a Lorem Ipsum paragraph
Insert sequence: uppercase letters	A, B, C…
Insert sequence: lowercase letters	a, b, c…
Insert sequence: NATO phonetic alphabet	Alpha, Bravo, Charlie…
Insert sequence: long month names	January, February…
Insert sequence: short month names	Jan, Feb…
Insert sequence: long day names	Monday, Tuesday…
Insert sequence: short day names	Mon, Tue…
Insert timestamp (local)	Current date/time in local time
Insert timestamp (UTC / ISO 8601)	Current date/time in UTC
Insert Unix timestamp	Current Unix epoch seconds

Advanced

Command	Description
Format as table	Align columns using a configurable delimiter
Extract with regex	Extract and reformat lines using capture groups
Duplicate selection	Duplicate each selected block

Text Slots

Command	Description
Text slot 1–5: set	Store the current selection in a named slot
Text slot 1–5: paste	Insert the stored slot content at the cursor

Line Numbers

Command	Description
Insert line numbers (sequential)	Prefix lines 1, 2, 3…
Insert line numbers (real)	Prefix lines with their actual file line number

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome and appreciated! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct and the process for submitting pull requests.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.

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Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for a history of changes.

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Acknowledgements

• Inspired by Text Power Tools for Visual Studio Code by Dániel Tar.
• Built with the Obsidian Plugin API.