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Books Without Tags

1NQTB
Août 5, 2020, 12:37 pm

Is there a way to search for books that haven't been tagged in my collection? My daughter scanned a bunch of books for me last year and didn't tag them and I can't figure out how to figure out which books in my library are untagged. Is there a way to search for tagless entries?

2MarthaJeanne
Modifié : Août 5, 2020, 12:47 pm

An easy way is to open Your Books with All Collections. Use a style that includes a column for Tags. Now click on the Tags column header. The column will probably show your no tag books at the top. If not, and the tags start with A or B or a number, then all your books have tags. If the tags start with W, Y or Z, then click on the tag header again.

3mart1n
Modifié : Août 5, 2020, 12:48 pm

In Your books you can sort by tags - that will bring up tagless books first.

ETA - too slow! And how did it take MarthaJeanne less time to type more words?

4Foretopman
Août 5, 2020, 12:47 pm

>1 NQTB: I believe that if you make "Tags" one of the columns in your catalog, and then sort on that column, the books with no tags will all sort to the top (or bottom, depending on whether you're sorting ascending or descending).

5MarthaJeanne
Août 5, 2020, 12:51 pm

Or, you can click on the 'Tags' tab. the final entry in the list is (no tag).

6gilroy
Août 5, 2020, 1:10 pm

If you have the module "Your Tags" on your home page, on the bottom left is a link that says "Show all {number} tags". Clicking on this will open your entire tag list. The last item will be (no tags)

7reading_fox
Août 6, 2020, 4:46 am

And you can then use Power Edit mode (lightning icon) to add the same tag to all the books in one go (upto 100 at a time). Very useful to add 'needs more checking' or some somesuch.