Typically, if I want to see what new taxa I encountered on a given field effort (e.g. a bioblitz or vacation travels), I go to my Calendar and search day-by-day to see what was new. This can be pretty tedious.
Q: Is there a way to search for newly added taxa (for my Life List) by other criteria, such as a whole week, a range of dates, or by location?
I’m not finding an answer to this in the “How to use iNaturalist’s Search URLs - wiki”.
there was some discussion about displaying a person’s life list in order by first observed date, and @kidlor modified one of his existing tools to do that, although i’m not sure if he has gotten around resolving a bug related to leaf taxa that have subspecies. (the way he did it, he would have to determine first observations based on taxon_id or ancestor taxon_id, rather than by just taxon_id.)
in that same thread, i described how you could create your own list using an alternative method.
Thanks, @pisum, as usual! Your CSV download methodology gets me somewhat down the path to the desired outcome, but seems like an all-or-nothing effort to find my first observations and would necessitate some further Excel manipulation. I understand that within Excel, I can probably do some column/row subsetting, hiding, etc., to view what I’m interested in, but that’s a lot more tedious than having a nice easy “button”, field option, or API trick on iNat. I might put in a feature request for my hoped-for capability.
i wouldn’t be against adding first observed on date to the dynamic life list for each taxon, except that the underlying query already seems relatively slow.
using the method i described on my own observations, once the system gave me a CSV file, it took less than a couple of minutes in Excel to get my list aggregated and sorted using a PivotTable:
