One thing that can greatly improve the quality of data on iNaturalist is in the annotation section of an observation. This is where you can enter an organisms sex or life stage. However, it is simply not very efficient to have to click on the annotations tab and then select it every observation you …

TAB + :arrow_right: + :arrow_right: to get to the Annotations tab, then ? to bring up the keyboard shortcuts menu to see what key combinations add the different annotations. Usually I separate annotation from identification and just stay in the Annotations tab when I’m doing that.

Not quite as simple as I would like, but thanks for the tip! Good solution for the time being.

Yes, I would say I usually do annotating only when I annotate, and try to make it as simple as possible, eg only going through a certain taxon, like Lepidoptera. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-identify-to-annotate-observations/1417

Add keyboard shortcuts for annotations in Identify mode.

Feature Requests

pisum September 4, 2019, 12:10am 4

if making system changes is on the table, i think this is the best way to approach this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-identification-tool/5029/11.

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Add keyboard shortcuts for annotations in Identify mode.

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