Duplicate & Conflicted-Copy Note Finder

This tool does that without a plugin. Drop your notes folder in and it groups notes by identical content, near-identical content, shared filename, and conflicted-copy naming, so you can see everything worth deleting in one pass.

Point this tool at your vault folder. It reads every .md file locally in your browser, hashes and compares content, and lists every group of notes that are identical, near-identical, or share a filename, without installing a plugin.

This usually happens when a sync service like iCloud, Dropbox, or OneDrive resolves a conflict by keeping both versions instead of merging them, or when a note gets copied into a new folder and the original is never deleted. This tool groups same-name notes across folders so you can compare and remove the stale one.

A conflicted copy is a file your sync service created because it saw two different edits to the same note at once, for example Note (conflicted copy).md or a numbered Note 1.md. This tool detects those filename patterns, pairs each conflicted copy with its base note, and shows a diff so you can merge the changes and delete the copy.

Once your folder includes file modification times, expand any conflict group in this tool and it labels which file was modified more recently, so you are not guessing from filenames alone.

Yes. It compares notes using shingled text similarity, not just exact matches, and flags a pair as a near-duplicate when 85% or more of their text overlaps, which catches lightly edited copies that an exact-match check would miss.

No. The tool only reads your files to build a report; it never writes to or deletes them. You review each group and decide what to keep, merge, or remove yourself.