Jørgen Carling 2 Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 I want to export a list of my tags. Why does it have to be so hard? Tags are essential to using Evernote efficiently, so I care about my tags. Some of them I also use in other applications, and it would be useful to be able to export or copy a list of all my tags. There is no way of doing it in the current version of Evernote, and I would like to see this feature added to future versions.
Level 5* gazumped 12,217 Posted November 24, 2016 Level 5* Posted November 24, 2016 Hi. There's a not specially difficult workaround - Go to All Notes, List View Ctrl-A to select all lines Ctrl-V to copy Paste to Excel (or other spreadsheet) Delete columns not required Sort remaining, following procedure to eliminate duplicates e.g. Remove duplicate values - Select the range of cells, or make sure that the active cell is in a table. On the Data tab, in the Data Tools group, click Remove Duplicates. Do one or more of the following: Under Columns, select one or more columns. ... Click OK. ... Click OK. - If you use multiple tags you may have to further process the remaining list to give you one complete list, and this doesn't handle a child tag structure at all: but it does give you the complete set, which could be stored in a note and kept up to date alongside the in-app tag structure. On the other hand, given the ability to 'stack' tags into a hierarchy, it may be easier to manage the list within Evernote. I do agree with you that it would be very useful to have a more complete tag management process, including the ability to export/ print. There is a third party option - I've posted before about Evernote Batch - https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/97218-consolidating-multiple-accounts/?do=findComment&comment=412594 - it's a paid-for add-in which adds some useful features to note layout as well as some utilities like exporting and importing tag lists and Outlook notes. Written by someone who seems to be a OneNote app designer... http://www.onenotegem.com/evernote-batch.htmlhttp://evernote.onenotegem.com/document Beware that last I looked this add-in requires you to downdate Evernote to a previous version to install, then re-update to the present. Don't know why, but it requires extra work to install...
Level 5* CalS 5,311 Posted November 29, 2016 Level 5* Posted November 29, 2016 Workaround, there is a utility called SysExporter by Nirsoft that can help get the list. SysExporter lets you grab data from a standard Windows list. So if you have the Assign Tags dialog open you can grab that data and drop it into Excel. You Ctrl-A the list and use the File menu to export the list. A little bit of cleanup using sort and the Trim function and you have a list of tags.
Level 5* DTLow 5,749 Posted November 29, 2016 Level 5* Posted November 29, 2016 On 2016-11-22 at 1:07 PM, Jørgen Carling said: I want to export a list of my tags. Why does it have to be so hard? We have it easier on the Mac side with built in scripting to quickly generate the list. I could also use database tools to export the tag table to a csv file I would also include the hierarchy in the export Still not clear what I would do with the list. Another user posted he wanted to use Excel to organize the tags
Level 5* gazumped 12,217 Posted November 29, 2016 Level 5* Posted November 29, 2016 Yikes! Good find Cal!
Level 5* CalS 5,311 Posted November 29, 2016 Level 5* Posted November 29, 2016 1 minute ago, gazumped said: Yikes! Good find Cal! Yeah, necessity being the mother .... Used the tool for something else, so I checked and it works in this use case as well. Sometimes doesn't work, but the tool has come in handy. Another hammer in the toolkit.
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