Lately it seems like every day the large pile is getting a little smaller, by an amount that would take the help of multiple people per day. Thanks everyone! The large pile by my current reference: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&per_page=100&iconic_taxa=unknown&orde…

Question: Is there a way not to be notified (in my home page) of IDs improving my IDs on other people observations? Use case: when I ID hundreds of “Unknown” observations with high rank IDs (Plantae, Fungi, …), I don’t need to know which species they are. Feature request? Be able to choose the ran…

There is no way to do this at the moment. It may or may not be part of the upcoming notifications revamp . Your specific question came up in that thread ( here ) but I don’t know if staff addressed it.

[image] benkendrick: Easy to make dumb mistakes and called a snake a plant every now and again and its good to be ready to be called out on it lol. Just this week I labeled a Canada Goose as a Canada Gooseberry!

Haha I love that! At least that is an easy one to pick up. I’ve been called out on a few and I have no idea why I’ve typed something so obviously incorrect. It’s like my brain was thinking one thing but my fingers were just automatically tapping out something else.

It is possible to reply to multiple posts simultaneously, while also providing readers easier access to context, by using the “quote” function. If you highlight a portion of text in a post, you will have the option to “quote” which will insert the quotation into your draft response. You can include…

I can’t seem to do that on my phone - I’ll have to have a play on the computer. I’ve always wondered how to do it! Thanks :)

[image] astra_the_dragon: If you highlight a portion of text in a post, you will have the option to “quote” which will insert the quotation into your draft response I’ve done it!!! This old dog has learned a new trick haha

I’m a Mac user, but the application you developed seems to add several functions that could really improve the efficiency of processing unknown observations. In particular the ability to run through multiple rounds of identification each with a pre-set identification taxon could be very useful. That…

Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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lisa_bennett December 7, 2020, 9:55am 400

This is amazing - I have no idea on how to even begin doing this, but I have been imagining something like it as I go through the observations slowly. I might have to teach myself :)
Do you know of any good tutorials online?

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Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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