Find tags not assigned to any notes

[John Zeman 29]

Hi all,

For the most part this Evernote newbie is adapting just fine to this neat program but I haven't been able to find a way to search for tags that have not been assigned to any notes.  Am I missing something? 

 

Windows client with the latest version of EN.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

[jefito 5,589]

No way that I know of with the Windows client; Evernote search tools are generally for finding notes, not tags. I don't see any way to do it in the Tags panel either (what you get when you click on the Tags header in the left panel). Nor in the web client, for that matter.

[jbenson2 2,147]

Every so often I will do some tag "house-cleaning" and look for tags with no associated notes.

I just run down the Left Panel under Tags.

 

As you can see in this example, I have no notes associated with Company.  There is no number in parenthesis after the tag name.

 

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/b8091de2-53dc-44de-8d01-7d650b1a27bf/03f9b6beaa9faa50e1b509bab3b5b1ee

[gazumped 11,643]

Every so often I will do some tag "house-cleaning" and look for tags with no associated notes.

I just run down the Left Panel under Tags.

 

As you can see in this example, I have no notes associated with Company.  There is no number in parenthesis after the tag name.

 

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/b8091de2-53dc-44de-8d01-7d650b1a27bf/03f9b6beaa9faa50e1b509bab3b5b1ee

 

...but "Company" in that example seems to be a Stack name with 'child' notebooks assigned to it.  Wouldn't deleting the tag lead to unwanted banging of heads on desks?

[jbenson2 2,147]

 

Every so often I will do some tag "house-cleaning" and look for tags with no associated notes.

I just run down the Left Panel under Tags.

 

As you can see in this example, I have no notes associated with Company.  There is no number in parenthesis after the tag name.

 

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/b8091de2-53dc-44de-8d01-7d650b1a27bf/03f9b6beaa9faa50e1b509bab3b5b1ee

 

...but "Company" in that example seems to be a Stack name with 'child' notebooks assigned to it.  Wouldn't deleting the tag lead to unwanted banging of heads on desks?

 

 

No, it is not a Stack. It is a tag. Due the large number of tags, for organizational reasons I prefer to use two levels of tags (a parent level tag and a child level tag). The parent level tag has no notes associated with it. 

 

But to address your comment - here is another view. I created a standard tag named 9999 and it has no notes. 

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/5d56d379-3342-4d87-9da7-400cc2a91fa4/6f5f9e4b9c1c1c6809d0775248a5062b

 

edit: I never, ever delete a Parent level tag. But just in case, I always make a nightly backup of my Evernote database.

[John Zeman 29]

Thanks guys, orphan tags aren't really a problem for me, I just wondered if I was missing something obvious.

[jefito 5,589]

Thanks guys, orphan tags aren't really a problem for me, I just wondered if I was missing something obvious.

Nope, unfortunately not.

[jbenson2 2,147]

Thanks guys, orphan tags aren't really a problem for me, I just wondered if I was missing something obvious.

 

Even if you do have some orphans, they don't take up much overhead in the Evernote program.