Do you cover a lot of ground with iNaturalist? Here’s a fun way to review your past adventures and exercise your biodiversity brain, while you take a break from all that identifying. On the iNat website, use the dropdown menu under your account icon to choose “Calendar.” Click on some date that h…

Sometimes, I have to play this in reverse when my system of recording locations on a day of cycling and finding plants breaks down: “Damn, I don’t have a phone photo for that. But Strava says I stopped for 8 minutes just this side of the creek…”

[image] janetwright: …then try to guess the location based on what you oberved. That wouldn’t work well for me. I have a photographic memory in the literal sense of the word. If I see any of the about 100,000 images in my archive (going back about 25 years), I can remember the location where …

I relate to this too well. I remember iNat stuff too well and then boom, studies :face_with_bags_under_eyes:

I use the calendar all the time and sometimes related to memory. I will often use it to see if I have already shared a particular individual photo or those from a particular dated folder in my computer. I do this to keep from duplicating entries. I’m not sure if it is a poor memory thing or that I j…

Guess your location - an iNaturalist memory game

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lizch December 21, 2025, 6:35pm 2

I play that memory game. Thanks for the tip! Sometimes I’ll make observations on my phone periodically & extrapolate locations from there.

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Guess your location - an iNaturalist memory game

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