I know there is a feature request (that looks like going nowhere) but I would like to identify about 1k records of a species reverting back to genus. Doing so manually will take several hours of boring, repetitive work. I should probably add a comment to explain myself too, which would take longer. …

[image] nschwab: Can you link the tool you cited? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/announcing-the-universal-metadata-tool-beta/53182 As for my need, I previously identified over 700 organisms to species and led iNat down a spiral of agreements and now realize they can’t be ID’ed to species fr…

[image] reiner: This can’t be done through the ID page as most of them are RG. You should be able to edit the filters to include only RG instead of the default which is only Needs ID. Is there some other reason I’m missing that you can’t use the identify tool?

[image] carrieseltzer: edit the filters to include only RG instead of the default Yes, of course, I forgot about this recent change.:+1:

As somebody else mentioned, unfortunately while an iNat-based tool doesn’t exist, maybe it shouldn’t exist. I 100% agree that it’s tedious and annoying to explain to hundreds of people why they cannot ID to species from photos, however, if you have a program make blanket IDs, you ignore the possible…

[image] birdsandbugs21: As somebody else mentioned, unfortunately while an iNat-based tool doesn’t exist, maybe it shouldn’t exist. I 100% agree that it’s tedious and annoying to explain to hundreds of people why they cannot ID to species from photos, however, if you have a program make blanket …

I had considered the possibility that some might be identifiable (e.g. due to dissection) but if I’m repetitively going through 1000 observations I will phase out and likely not notice such things anyway. Its likely to only be a handful at most.

[image] reiner: but if I’m repetitively going through 1000 observations I will phase out and likely not notice such things anyway Then do them in small batches so that you do notice such things. So what if it is “just” a handful? Shouldn’t they get reviewed with the same care as everything el…

While this does not directly solve the original question, here’s a time-saving tip: I use a text expander web browser extension (Text Blaze). These tools allow you to create custom shortcuts that automatically expand into longer, frequently used phrases. For example, the shortcut ‘/spe’ could instan…

[image] reiner: Its likely to only be a handful at most that handful is just as important as clearing the decks. More so probably.

[image] reiner: I’m repetitively going through 1000 observations You keep saying I when you just as well could be saying We. All you’d have to do is share the details.

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