How To Find Untagged Items In Evernote

How To Find Untagged Items In Evernote

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If you use tags to organize your information in Evernote, it can be handy to periodically go through and find the notes that aren’t tagged. That way, you can make sure that you have tagged everything.

By the way, this tip came from Don McAllister in the Evernote episode of ScreencastsOnline. I definitely recommend checking out his service. I learn something from every single episode.

To find all untagged notes, go to the search box in the top-right corner of the Evernote window and make sure you have selected All Notebooks[1].

Quick tip: if you want to quickly do this from anywhere on your computer, hit Ctrl-Cmd-F on your Mac or Win-Shift-F on Windows. It will automatically jump to the Evernote application, select All Notebooks, and go to the search bar.

To find all untagged notes, type the following in the search bar:

-tag:*

As you can hopefully see here, the search has brought back all my Evernote notes without tags. I can then go through and selectively tag the ones that I want. .

Evernote untagged notes

Give it a try and see what you find.

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  1. Assuming, of course, you want to search all notebooks. Otherwise, just select the one that you want to search.

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Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless. He's been an accountant, a software developer, a manager in a very large corporation, and has run DocumentSnap since 2008. You can find Brooks on Twitter at @documentsnap or @brooksduncan. Thanks for stopping by.

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DocumentSnap Time Machine | Tips To Learn How To Go Paperless | DocumentSnap Paperless Blog - June 3, 2012 Reply

[…] How To Find Untagged Items In Evernote Sometimes you want to find your notes that have not been tagged. […]

@davejorr - January 16, 2012 Reply

You could go one step further and save the search…

File: New Saved Search…

    Brooks Duncan - January 16, 2012 Reply

    Good point, thanks!

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