You learn pretty quickly, or at least I did, to substitute notes on sight. I can play the B on the E string fret 7, a string fret 2, or b in another octave d string fret 9.
I think to do what you want you would need to make your own tab.
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Guitar Pro gives you full ability to edit. A similar freeware option is TuxGuitar.
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Somgsterr will let you edit tabs for yourself at least on the paid version.
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Others have already answered but I will agree that the reason you would play a fretted note vs the open string (or vice-versa) depends on the notes that precede and follow it! Honestly it makes no difference outside of timbre, which you’d probably never notice in the mix anyway. Do whatever lets you play the piece in the most comfortable manner!
What?! I have the paid version. I’m going to have to figure this out!
Even better is MuseScore, as you can select all notes of a certain type (ie E5) or all notes on a string (ie G) and move them around as a batch.
It’s much more convenient than having to select and move notes individually.
MuseScore is not without challenges, but it’s free and very good for this job.
By the way: I utterly hate the open G! Playing that almost always goes wrong for me, so I move it to D5 in most cases.
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