How to start over with Tagging?

DEVONthink
#1

I’ve got five years of random and in retrospect, mindless tagging. I sometimes feel like I have more tags than notes!?!?!

I’ve sat down and used MindNode to construct a meaningful tagging scheme, any advice on how to wipe out all my tagging history and start from scratch?

Thanks in advance
Larry

#2

You might want to reverse that order
Your existing tagging can exist while working on your new paradigm

It’s so easy to delete existing tags
Using the Tags group; select and delete

retrospect, mindless tagging

My tagging process is controlled using an applescript
The first tag is a note type; for example !Type-Receipt
This drives additional tags, for example !Vendor and !Budget

I reflect hierarchy in my tag names; for example !Budget, !Budget-Housing, !Budget-HousingRent
I avoid “orphan” tags

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#3

As @DTLow mentioned, you can merely delete unwanted tags in the Tags group for any database. Then empty the database’s Trash and they’re gone.