I’ll be (hopefully) starting a research project in a few months for my undergrad. I’m not completely familiarized with which species occur in the region and their diagnostic features so I was thinking that I could go through papers and compile this info into a dataset/database (?).
First I though about just using Word but then someone shared in Twitter about scratchpads.org they were using it to share their supplementary data. Looks really interesting. Is somebody familiar with the platform? I’m planning to (if I can) add the taxonomy of some groups, sections were you should be able to see which animals occur in certain place with basic descriptions, some pictures.
Any tool that stores data in table form rows X columns will do at first, even a simple spreadsheet. I would recommend you to concentrate initially on the type of data that you want to collect, rather than the tool.
At a first glance, Scratchpads site seems rather inactive in recent times – not a good sign.
Why not wikipedia? Whenever I learn something new on iNaturalist, I try to document it in wikipedia (assuming I can find a reliable source to go along with it). In this way, I not only keep track of items that would otherwise be lost, but the rest of the world can benefit as well. Win-win.
