Alternative use of Inaturalist (and an apology)

That’s very respectable you to own up to to a situation where you acted out. In my experience, an apology can go a long way, and people can be more forgiving than you might think (though usually don’t forget, which is understandable).

I’m not sure that I fully understand what you’d like in terms of your own classification, but you may be able to use tags and search URLs as a workaround. By using search URLs, you can filter to only see observations that contain certain text within a tag.

For instance, this link that I use shows a list of all of the observations that I’ve submitted to my local heritage program using the tag “submitted to NHESP” (%20 is used in place of spaces in the URL)

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=natemarchessault&verifiable=any&search_on=tags&q=submitted%20to%20NHESP

For your purposes the link might look something like
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=chris3334&verifiable=any&search_on=tags&q=1A
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=chris3334&verifiable=any&search_on=tags&q=2B
etc., replacing the text after “q=” to whatever your classification is

More info can be found here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2/18792#heading--search--terms

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