I have only been using iNat since June of 2020. I have noticed that there are a lot of unidentified observations. I have also noticed that there are a lot of people who try to ID entries because are bothered that there are so many “unknown” entries. I admit that I have caught that bug a little bit. …

Have you tried using the Identify tab instead of the Explore tab? You can sort by unknowns and easily suggest an ID without opening another tab.

Yes. But, the Suggestions given are…uh…kind of crazy. The suggestions I get from the right-click method I described in the original post give me very good suggestions. Example: When I click on an observation on that page from the Identify page, a new window pops up with that individual observation…

I think you need to change your settings. When you use Identify on the iNaturalist website and go into the suggestions tab, there’s a filter called “Source” near the top and you have to change that from “observation” (which gives you all the organisms seen in that area) to “visually similar” (which …

Thanks. Using “Visually Similar” did help. But, it is still significantly slower than the original method I described. I should add that I am using a public library computer that has relatively fast Internet. And, not a lot of people are in the library right now using the computers. I do appreciate…

Ah, I’m glad changing the settings worked :) I’ve found that the Computer Vision on Identity is a little slow, but it’s about the same as using Computer Vision on the mobile app for me so not much different there. It takes a while to load up all the observations on one page - from there opening up …

Add a Suggestion ID Field in the Explore Grid View

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thomaseverest September 16, 2020, 3:06pm 5

Yep that was brought up here. Not sure if there’s a corresponding feature request.

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Add a Suggestion ID Field in the Explore Grid View

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