# Add annotations when creating observations

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-annotations-when-creating-observations/1513>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** web, mobile-app\
**Created:** [March 26, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-annotations-when-creating-observations/1513 "2019-03-26T14:15:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-annotations-when-creating-observations/1513/13 "2020-09-23T14:07:19Z")

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Even cooler would using computer vision systems to recognize that it is flowering (or budding, fruiting, etc) based on the image, and modify suggestions with regards to regional phenology without requiring manual input of an annotation first. (See [related feature request and staff response](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-computer-vision-to-annotate-observations/3331/37)).

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