When I go through local observations I will annotate what I can eg organism, alive, green leaves, flowers etc. The basic very obvious things that you don’t need much knowledge for. But I do ask, does anyone use these? Is there any benefit to me bothering to do so apart from reminding myself I have a…

[image] phma: a caterpillar or a sawfly so long as we follow our notifications. If it goes to ‘someone is wrong on the internet’ we withdraw. Obs is at least seen by a taxon specialist and the ID moves. [image] trscavo: not practical to add IDs and annotations In Identify I go thru a …

I put links in a journal post in my home project to make it easier to find the adult moths/butterflies, caterpillars, and galls in my project. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/appelbaum-property-survey/journal/97727-urls-for-annotations

I didn’t even realize you could see annotations on the app… :sweat_smile:

For bees, I like to annotate sex wherever possible. When I was first starting to look at bees, the different appearances of males and females was sometimes confusing. I hope that by marking it for other users as I’m doing the ID’s, they’ll get a clearer picture of what they are looking at. (Espec…

so P R for fruit, P L for flower. What about for buds or no flowers/fruit?

[image] tiwane: When you’re on the Identify modal and go to the Annotations tab, click on the keyboard shortcuts icon in the lower left-hand corner. You’ll see the annotations keyboard shortcuts. See more at Using Identify to Annotate Observations [image]

It’s not practical to add IDs and annotations at the same time. Navigating back-and-forth between tabs for each observation is too cumbersome. I think that’s probably a user-specific decision. I find that pressing “Shift + → + →” takes me less than a second to navigate from Info to Annotations (a…

Agreed, I will add male and juvenile annotation when appropriate. Egg sac notation is also helpful with spider ID. In addition, I am now using Observation Fields to group similar photos. With that I can map a group of undescribed or unnamed spiders with a common appearance by using a key word s…

Yep. It helps when filtering through organisms’ observations to not see dead animals, see if your species is a match (if the larva and adult forms are very different, as in butterflies), etc. I honestly wish more people took the time to fill out annotations. They’re pretty useful!!

Yep I’ve always used them for larvae and nymphs but I have been promising myself to go back and annotate everything which will be a pretty big job.

Adding annotations - does anyone use them?

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