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Hey there Evernote Folks - 

 

I would like to re-work how I organize notes in Evernote - is there any way to reset all of my tags and Notebooks, while still keeping all of my existing notes? In an ideal world, the notes would just get grouped tagless into the 'Uncategorized' folder.  Is this possible?

 

Cheers for the help,

 

Nate

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First thing: back up your Evernote data, in whatever way you do it now.

 

Going from the Windows client, I'd do something like this:

 

Make a new "Uncategorized" notebook, select all of your notes and drag them into that notebook (or select them all and change the notebook in the multi-select panel). Sync. Once that's complete, then delete all of your old empty notebooks. Sync. Select all of your notes, and use Note / Tag... or Ctrl+Alt+T to bring up the "Assign Tags" dialog. Click the "Clear All" button, then OK. Sync.

 

If you have a large number of notes, I'd do it in smaller batches, verifying as I went along.

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For future readers of this thread, in addition to what Jeff describes I would consider adding a tag to each note representing the name of the current notebook of the note.  That way if I got confused in the notebook/tag renaming process I would at least have bearings based upon the original notebook for the note.  Then delete those "notebook" tags at the end.  Not a big deal for a few notes, but could be a problem with many notes.  FWIW.

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