Evernote’s current clients cannot create tag clouds, i.e. a visual representation of your data. Here are three simple steps to generate a tag cloud:
- Select all notes in Evernote for which you want to generate a tag cloud and export the data via
File|Export|Export as a file in ENEX format
to a folder on your hard drive, sayc:\temp\Evernote.enex
. Depending on your number of notes that file may be huge. - Convert the exported file to something that only contains the tags.
- Convert the file with a command line utility from Microsoft (or any other XSL processor). Download
msxsl.exe
and save it toc:\temp
. - Download the XSL file which sets the conversion format and save it to
c:\temp
. - Open a command window, go to
c:\temp
and use
msxsl.exe Evernote.enex tagcloud-xsl.txt > tagcloud.txt
- Convert the file with a command line utility from Microsoft (or any other XSL processor). Download
- Upload or copy/paste
tagcloud.txt
to a service that generates tag clouds. - Your’re done.
In a future post I will explain how to analyze your tag and possibly other meta data with Excel.