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To make sure I've indexed what I should I want to footnote every indexed item in a draft of my document. The MNWE that follows is what I've tried. The renewed \index command properly creates an index entry, but doesn't generate the footnote. \marginpar instead of \footnote fails too. So does \marginnote.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{marginnote}
\usepackage{imakeidx}   % needed in the real document
\usepackage{refcount}   % needed in the real document

\let\oldindex\index
\renewcommand{\index}[1]{%
%\footnote{INDEXING #1}
\marginnote{#1}
\oldindex{#1}
}

\makeindex[intoc] % needs imakeidx

\begin{document}
Here is an entry\index{entry} to index\index{index}.
Check that margin notes work\marginnote{This is a margin note}
Check that footnotes work\footnote{This is a footnote}

\printindex
\end{document}
Ethan Bolker
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    Index can be used in places where float constructions like footnote and marginpar cannot be used. You might want to use marginnote (package of the same name). Also try to search ctan, fairly certain there is a package for this – daleif Sep 13 '15 at 15:37
  • You will be struck by the thunderbolts of egreg because you misused index an his package. Please consider, that \index has an optional argument here, which is forgotten with \let here –  Sep 13 '15 at 15:45
  • @ChristianHupfer egreg's thunderbolts are to be avoided at all costs. Will update my MNWE, – Ethan Bolker Sep 13 '15 at 15:53

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You have to delay \renewcommand{\index} at begin document:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{imakeidx}   % needed in the real document
\usepackage{refcount}   % needed in the real document


\AtBeginDocument{%
  \NewCommandCopy{\oldindex}{\index}%
  \renewcommand{\index}[1]{%
    \footnote{INDEXING #1}%
    \marginpar{#1}%
    \oldindex{#1}%
  }%
}


\makeindex[intoc] % needs imakeidx


\begin{document}
Here is an entry\index{entry} to index\index{index}.


\printindex
\end{document}

The original answer used \LetLtxMacro for reasons explained at When to use \LetLtxMacro? but nowadays \NewCommandCopy is to be preferred.

Not that it's really needed here, but it's better practice any time a command has (or appears to have) an optional argument.

If you also want to support the optional argument to \index, then you can use xparse that makes things easier.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{imakeidx}   % needed in the real document
\usepackage{refcount}   % needed in the real document


\AtBeginDocument{%
  \NewCommandCopy{\oldindex}{\index}%
  \RenewDocumentCommand{\index}{om}{%
    \footnote{INDEXING #2}%
    \marginpar{#2}%
    \IfNoValueTF{#1}{\oldindex{#2}}{\oldindex[#1]{#2}}%
  }%
}


\makeindex[intoc] % needs imakeidx


\begin{document}
Here is an entry\index{entry} to index\index{index}.


\printindex
\end{document}

(I used \marginpar throughout, because \marginnote results in overlapped entries if on the same line).

egreg
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Here is what I use for exactly the same purpose. leaves \index untouched:

\newcommand{\indx}1{\colorbox{yellow}{\footnotesize #1}\index{#1}}%checking

%\newcommand{\indx}1{\index{#1}} %standard \index

\item to toggle perspective view \indx{perspective view},
\item store and select camera positions (snapshots). Only the camera and the view angle (zoom) are stored, not the result type.
\item Legend and status bar can be moved freely on the \indx{Legend!move} screen with the left mouse button pressed.

How it looks

Jetrock
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