Untagged filter in Readwise Reader

Planted October 25, 2024

Readwise Reader is my default ‘read later’ app now. The issue I’ve always had with read it later apps, is that I’ll save a bunch of things to them, and then never get back around to reading anything I’ve saved. I haven’t improved on that since using Readwise Reader. Since I’ve started using it I have just over 1,000 articles split between the Inbox and Later tabs.

In an attempt to start organising and getting rid of articles I don’t need, I’ve started making using of document tags to categorise what I have saved.

There’s just one small problem…

A lot of these articles I’ve saved in the past have no tags on them 🙃

So I realised I needed to be able to search and find all the items I had with no tags on them. It wasn’t super straight forward but it turns out that there’s a guide on creating new views with filters. Using this guide I ended up creating a new view ‘Untagged’.

Even with the guide it was still a bit tricky, so here’s how I created that view within the web app 👇🏽

1. Click ‘Manage Views’ in the left menu bar
2. Click ‘Add filtered view’ in the top right of the page
3. Enter has__not:tags as the query to find all items without a document tag
4. Click ‘Save View’
5. Type in a name for the view and hit enter

Your newly created view should now appear in the left side menu bar 🎉

Using the guide and these steps you can now create filtered views to view items in your app with easy. Hope that helps (because part of me wished I found a guide like this earlier).