Hi Just as the title suggests, I think it would be highly beneficial to have a function which enables users to compare individual observations within their own lists A situation that would call for such a functionality is the following: I have multiple observations of specimens of a single plant …

Did you mean to put this in Feature Requests, or did you put it here for discussion first?

What would the comparison of two observations look like? How would it differ from opening the two observations in different windows and tiling them?

While identifying it often happens to me that I recognize something because I remember observing it. So I end up going on a search of my own observations by whatever coarse taxon is my best guess – multiple windows, a lot of clicking. It would be convenient if this set of filter criteria: [image] …

[image] schoenitz: a link that opens a new window/tab with the regular explore view of all […] observations of the taxon being suggested. Come to think of it, such a link would be useful even with the current set of filters. A list of all observations of a suggestion that has previously been …

Whoops sorry I meant to post this in the Feature Requests section, not sure how it ended up here @tiwane please could you relocate this to the correct section? Many thanks @zabdiel I believe schoenitz put it quite well. Of course there are existing ways to compare one’s own observations such as…

Oh yes! This would be so helpful for me. Often I find a moth that I know I’ve seen before, but it may have been a year or two ago, and the AI is not being helpful, and I have to go trawling through my observations looking for it. Such a feature would help tremendously with these situations. I im…

[image] schoenitz: allow restricting by whether a taxon occurs within my own observations. Another option: allow restricting by whether a taxon occurs within a project. (For instance, I proposed an ID for this observation thanks to this observation in this project ). More generally: allow …

Add a 'compare' function that compares a user's own Observations

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Add a 'compare' function that compares a user's own Observations

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