Description
Evernote has a built-in way to hide unused tags, but here’s a quick way to permanently remove unused Tags.
This script scans every tag in your Evernote account, looking for tags which have no notes associated with them. If you have a large number of tags, it will take several minutes to process the list. When it finds an “empty tag”, it copies the tag name to a list — and deletes the tag for you. When the script has finished, it creates a new note in Evernote with an alphabetically-sorted list of the tags that it deleted.
If you’d like to test the script first without deleting the tags, just comment out the “delete tag (name of theTag)” line. You can then review the list in Evernote to confirm that the script is working properly!
The Code
(*
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Evernote -- Empty Tag Remover
Version 1.0
December 22, 2010
Project Status, Latest Updates, and Comments Collected at:
http://veritrope.com/code/evernote-empty-tag-remover
*)
property unusedTags : {}
set unusedTags to {}
tell application "Evernote"
try
set theTags to every tag
repeat with theTag in theTags
set theNotes to {}
set theName to "\"" & name of theTag & "\""
set theNotes to (find notes "tag:" & theName)
if theNotes is {} then
copy theName to the end of unusedTags
delete tag (name of theTag)
end if
end repeat
end try
set sortedTags to my simple_sort(unusedTags)
set oldDelim to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set sortedList to sortedTags as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelim
set n to create note with text sortedList title "Deleted Tags"
end tell
--SORT SUBROUTINE
on simple_sort(my_list)
set the index_list to {}
set the sorted_list to {}
repeat (the number of items in my_list) times
set the low_item to ""
repeat with i from 1 to (number of items in my_list)
if i is not in the index_list then
set this_item to item i of my_list as text
if the low_item is "" then
set the low_item to this_item
set the low_item_index to i
else if this_item comes before the low_item then
set the low_item to this_item
set the low_item_index to i
end if
end if
end repeat
set the end of sorted_list to the low_item
set the end of the index_list to the low_item_index
end repeat
return the sorted_list
end simple_sort
http://veritrope.com
Evernote -- Empty Tag Remover
Version 1.0
December 22, 2010
Project Status, Latest Updates, and Comments Collected at:
http://veritrope.com/code/evernote-empty-tag-remover
*)
property unusedTags : {}
set unusedTags to {}
tell application "Evernote"
try
set theTags to every tag
repeat with theTag in theTags
set theNotes to {}
set theName to "\"" & name of theTag & "\""
set theNotes to (find notes "tag:" & theName)
if theNotes is {} then
copy theName to the end of unusedTags
delete tag (name of theTag)
end if
end repeat
end try
set sortedTags to my simple_sort(unusedTags)
set oldDelim to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set sortedList to sortedTags as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelim
set n to create note with text sortedList title "Deleted Tags"
end tell
--SORT SUBROUTINE
on simple_sort(my_list)
set the index_list to {}
set the sorted_list to {}
repeat (the number of items in my_list) times
set the low_item to ""
repeat with i from 1 to (number of items in my_list)
if i is not in the index_list then
set this_item to item i of my_list as text
if the low_item is "" then
set the low_item to this_item
set the low_item_index to i
else if this_item comes before the low_item then
set the low_item to this_item
set the low_item_index to i
end if
end if
end repeat
set the end of sorted_list to the low_item
set the end of the index_list to the low_item_index
end repeat
return the sorted_list
end simple_sort
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2 Responses to “Evernote Empty Tag Remover”
worked perfectly
works fine.. very useful..