Oh wow, that will be great for Bioblitzes, we can do one city or province at a time if we want. Thanks!
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If you keep making the app better I might never go back :o
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Unfortunately the app has now become very buggy. Series of observations Iāve already given IDs will reappear, Iām logged out every few minutes, and sometimes I canāt swipe at all because every tap just skips to another ob :(
On filter for New Jersey.
Thank you for the report. I have tried to analyze it, but I do not run into the same errors. Could you post your exact settings for all filters?
Next time it happens, I will :)
Just within the last few hours, I hit 2 different unusual spots:
-working through Malaysia, it hits a point where it spins instead of giving the next set, and canāt proceed, giving the āsorryā message
-working through Hong Kong, it hits a point where I get a strange āflickeryā kickout to the main screen (hard to describe but it looks like itās trying to do something during that process and not succeeding)
I saw each happen at those same points 2 times before moving on to something else. My workflow is such that I may be able to approach these specific points slowly by other means and narrow in on the records where it happens. Iāll followup if I find them. It could be that a couple of obs are glitched in some way and are just confusing the app.
Settings each time: used search to set up the locations; oldest first; 1 photo; captive false
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I found the source of this one- I reached the end of the queue in that mode! :)
Edit: A few hours later in Hong Kong, I appear to have gone past the earlier point without issue. It may have been a transient thing at the site?
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Now that you can āzero inā on different localities, itās doable to find a interesting place that doesnāt have so many āmessy lead inā records before you get to identifiable stuff. :)
(Example: I have trouble with āsea lifeā so choosing somewhere landlocked can help me avoid those.)
Update: Hot tip for a place to zero in on this month: Hong Kong, since an inter-school? bioblitz challenge is in progress there.
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Iām loving the new updates.
Since a few days ago, images will no longer load. I can still get the āall doneā error / message.
Edit: actually, this only happens when I set the āone or moreā filter to āanyā
Thanks!
I think the app will probably stay like it is now for a while. For my purposes it is good enough.
I donāt have the same problem that images are not showing at the moment. If you can post your entire swiper settings I can investigate. (Maybe I should add some buttons to send problem/bug/crash reports to a central depot).
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Iāve been testing out the app and itās a game changer! Many of the changes I would have suggested at first turned out to be ones you had already fixed, like the option to swipe down to skip. Thanks for making this a reality!
Since the app is finished, these suggestions are only if you decide to further tinker with it in the future.
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Iād second the ability to set different levels of taxon. Thisād be great for much-ignored areas like fungi, where we can at least maybe separate them down further into different levels. While thereāll be a natural limitation of three directions (or four, if thatās enabled), that does have the advantage of being easy to remember. However this may run into a curveball of locations being general continents; while I could sort things in North America into dicots and monocots, other areas would be hard. So, this may be opening a new can of worms in terms of fixes and bugs.
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Second suggestion, and the most out-there one that may not even be possible: a mode for annotations. I try to set them for plants if theyāre flowering, fruiting, etc, but something like this for annotations would be great! ā¦ Just, I can see a few cons with this:
- Is there even a way for iNat to know if something has annotations or not in a way the app could check?
- How would the app be able to know when to go to the next one?
- While plants may be easier to deal with (ie, limit to plantae), how would we handle states like āalive/deadā and life stages that are specific to different branches, like mammals versus insects, in a swipe format?
- Would we limit it by locations as well?
What ever happened with this app? Was it ever released? Can more people try it out?
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Itās iNat Toolkit and it should be somewhere for Android.
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Hello @zygy ,
the app is still invite only at the moment. There has not been a lot of interest, so I havenāt published it for everyone to find in the App stores. Let me know if you are interested in testing it out.
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