Tag Management
Hi all - just switching to Zotero and so far I've managed to get just about everything out of Mendeley and into Zotero... very happy with one outstanding issue: Tag management!
In short, I have a LOT of tags. There are tags that have crept in from all over the place it seems - random numbers, urls, sentences of confusing text, all sorts... and, of course, my own tags. There's hundreds altogether.
I want to know what the best way is to be able to batch delete some of these (aside of just right clicking the tag and doing 'delete tag' because the interface is a bit slow doing this and I have hundreds to do).
If there is anything like:
- an add-on
- a way to do it in sqlite directly
- a setting I've missed
I'd love to know - again, any help or advice appreciated!
B
In short, I have a LOT of tags. There are tags that have crept in from all over the place it seems - random numbers, urls, sentences of confusing text, all sorts... and, of course, my own tags. There's hundreds altogether.
I want to know what the best way is to be able to batch delete some of these (aside of just right clicking the tag and doing 'delete tag' because the interface is a bit slow doing this and I have hundreds to do).
If there is anything like:
- an add-on
- a way to do it in sqlite directly
- a setting I've missed
I'd love to know - again, any help or advice appreciated!
B
I am using standalone on Linux and have decided to use a SQLite browser and do some commands based on:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4051/remove-all-tags
1. Take a full backup of your Zotero data folder.
2. Play around with SQL until you have achieved the desired state
3. Scrub the online Zotero library (since it won't show the changes made via SQL)
4. Re-sync (from local to online)
The appropriate workflow is via the javascript API.
I would really like to be able to use tags, but the way they work now it's just impossible. They seem like a potentially very powerful tool. I'm wondering if there are any plans to make the genuinely useful.
It may help you to disable automatically imported tags in the general tab of the Zotero preferences (and it may help to hide them, which is an option in the tag selector).
Beyond that, yes, better batch operations, including for tags, are planned.
Such as: Search on tags in Advanced Search; select items to change; batch edit tags for items; delete unused tags.
Using current standalone Zotero on Mac OS.
The "No automatic tag" checkbox in the option menu simply does not work for me.
What do you mean by an example URL?
If this is too hard to fix via a tag managment feature, then how about a DELTE ALL option, then an re-import of your exported tags.
If there is a plugin that does this then could you post a step by step to run it?