Here is a link to a screen recording of the issue I am having: https://youtu.be/XSQJt-sUU_M I was hoping to find observations with “No Live Leaves” and “Fruits or Seeds”, but when I choose the second annotation (Fruits or Seeds), it clears the first (No Live Leaves). Is there a way to search observ…

Thank you for the quick reply and those links! So, searching for observations with more than one annotation does exist, but only through URLs is how I understand it. I love iNat, but this doesn’t seem user friendly. I fully understand the sentiment of keeping the user interface from containing an o…

i suspect the choice to leave advanced filters to URL manipulation only is more an issue of maintenance than it is UI design. there are ways to logically organize advanced filtering, but it’s likely easier to add obscure new filters only on the back end and API than to also add them to the filter UI…

Annotation Filtering Issue?

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pisum March 15, 2025, 8:56pm 2

see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2/18792#heading--annotations.

this may also be relevant in more complicated situations: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filter-by-multiple-annotations-at-a-time/59288.

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