(Archived) How do I find notes without tags?

[mkayi 5]

I guess I have a blockhead phase right now, but how exactly do I find all the notes I haven't assigned any tags to at all?

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Select all notebooks. Check the tags column in the list view. (Assuming you are looking for notes w/o tags as stated in the OP, rather than the opposite, which is your subject line.)

[mkayi 5]

Jesus Christ, it must have gotten quite too late for me here tonight!

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, the title was wrong, I was looking for notes without tags. I edited it, thanks. And thanks a lot for the working answer!

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

You're welcome.

[cjhabs 0]

Or search -tag:

[mkayi 5]

this last reply reminds me of something else I wanted to ask: where do I find a list of these search terms? I couldn't find them in the manual... somehow.

[cjhabs 0]

It is in the Evernote API overview PDF document - I don't have the url to hand.

[jbenson2 2,149]

You can find them at this site:

http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/evernote-api.htm

But it is not user-friendly, so I have been piecing together tips from this forum and storing them in my Evernote notes.

I have 4 major ones right now. Every search I do gets stored in one of them.

My search examples for Evernote - people

My search examples for Evernote - places

My search examples for Evernote - things

My search examples for Evernote - dates

I also have a note for Evernote Keyboard Shortcuts

[mkayi 5]

thank you!

*creates a new note...

^^

[efforting 0]

I am using the most recent mac version of Evernote.

As far as I can tell, I do not have a "tags" view in the column list options and when I search for -tags or "-tags" nothing happens, just shows all my notes.

What am I missing?

[crane 40]

try searching for -tag:*

"tag" is one of the keywords for search.

"tag:abc" would find all notes tagged with abc.

"tag:*" would find all notes tagged with anything

"-tag:*" finds all notes that are NOT tagged with anything.

-tags will just find notes that don't have the word -tags in them somewhere

Hope this helps.

[iratau 0]

I'm having trouble mixing the tag: and the -tag: options

The problem occurs when I want to search on any tag in list A that does not have a tag from list B

For example:

I want to find all notes that are tagged "do-next" or "do-soon" but are NOT tagged with "done"

If I search as follows tag:do-next tag:do-soon -tag:done then I get all notes.

[crane 40]

EN doesn't support combining terms that way. If you search for tag:do-next tag:do-soon -tag:done, then you're searching for all notes that have do-next AND done but NOT done. If you search for "any: tag:do-next tag:do-soon -tag:done", then you're searching for all notes that either EITHER do-next OR done OR don't have done, which would result in a lot of notes.

You *might* be able to do something with a saved search, i.e., a two-step filter process, e.g., create a saved search that searches for "any: tag:do-next tag:do-soon". Select that saved search. Then, now that your notes are filtered, do a search in the search box for -tag:done. That should work in Windows 3.1, but I don't think it will work in Windows 3.5 (I recall reading a forum post about this type of operation no longer working.)