I don't know when it started, but at some point Evernote started tagging my clips automatically based on the text in the content being clipped. I searched the forums and found how to turn this "feature" off so it wont' do it anymore, but now I'm stuck with HUNDREDS of one-word tags cluttering my tags list and would like to get rid of them. To solve the problem,
I click on the icon for TAGS in the left sidebar, which brought up the whole list of tags.
I then did a CTRL-A (on a PC) to select all of the tags
I held down the CTRL key and clicked to de-select any tags I wanted to keep. I had to scroll to the right several times to get through the list because there were so many tags.
It was pretty easy to quickly see which ones were auto-generated without reading all the tags because the auto-generated tags usually had a (1) or (2) next to them indicating how many times the tag is being used. The tags I created myself were used more than once.
Once I had selected the tags I wanted to delete, I clicked the Delete key on my keyword. You could also right-click and select Delete from the context menu
Hope this helps someone else who finds they have accumulated a lot of unwanted tags.
How to Delete Tags in Bulk All At Once
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I don't know when it started, but at some point Evernote started tagging my clips automatically based on the text in the content being clipped. I searched the forums and found how to turn this "feature" off so it wont' do it anymore, but now I'm stuck with HUNDREDS of one-word tags cluttering my tags list and would like to get rid of them. To solve the problem,
Hope this helps someone else who finds they have accumulated a lot of unwanted tags.