You don’t have to be able to ID the organism which is a major advantage. Tracks and Scat are annotations that a lot of people forget to use probably due to using the phone app. They often make a comment in notes so sometimes they tell you what you are looking at. Similarly if you don’t mind looking…

I’ve given it a bit of a go: [Capture] Aiming for a quarter of a million. And then a million, I suppose. Annotating Lepidoptera life stages is my equivalent of a fidget toy. Using the keyboard commands of course. It is very soothing. I also try to add annotations to anything I identify, but that…

That’s a lot of annotations! Nice work!

For my own observations, if possible, I always use the annotations. However, I think the ‘‘life stage’’ annotations for birds, with the only three options currently being ‘‘adult’’, ‘‘egg’’ and ‘‘juvenile’’, are too limited to be useful. We at least need the option ‘‘immature’’ added for birds to pr…

An “unknown” annotation would probably also help for out of focus/very far away plants or other cases where the whole plant is not completly visible

I’m working through Monarchs world-wide because I had a theory that their migratory nature might cause a dissonance where people think habitat is plentiful because they see adult monarchs, when in reality they’re actually only laying eggs in a few places. It doesn’t look like it’s true so far, but I…

I enjoy annotating. Some tricks I use to speed it up are: Concentrate on one type of annotation at a time: e.g. annotating “Flowers and Fruits”, rather than annotating everything for a particular observation. This makes things much faster if you’re using the shortcuts. Use the filters on the I…

[image] clightowler: I focus on observations in a particular location I also do specific projects, especially traditional or members only ones

I do try to add what I can to annotations with every ID I do.

I really wish you could annotate from the ID page. Then I could just type “apl” to RG a flowering plant observation or “avg” to RG some green leaves.

Ever thought about giving annotating a go?

General

dendroleon January 24, 2026, 3:12pm 9

wow! thank you for your major contribution to inaturalist

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Ever thought about giving annotating a go?

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