Here is some code to add shortcuts to iNat

General
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Hello! I’ve made a small developmental Chrome Extension to add a few keyboard shortcuts to the interface.

Any suggestions of new shortcuts are very welcome! Currently we have:

  • F to fuse observations.
  • D to duplicate an observation.
  • R to remove an observation.
  • C to toggle the Captive/Cultivated checkbox.

It is currently only installable in dev mode (but not that hard, really)

You can get it from here:
https://github.com/lubianat/inat_shortcuts

If some real developer wants to make it into something more robust and general, please steal the code/idea!

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We have keyboard shortcuts in Identify.
For me
R is reviewed
X is cultivated
and C is comment
?

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just to clarify, i think these shortcuts are meant to be used in the context of the Upload page.

since this is a thing that you have to install in dev mode anyway, you can modify the main context.js file to use whatever shortcut keys you like.

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Very cool! Not to hijack this thread but…
Is there anyway to make a shortcut for adding an observation to a specific (traditional) project? Being able to automate that process is on the want list of many many iNat users…

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working from Identify - January 2024
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/new-functionality-added-to-identify-and-upload-pages/48448

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Thanks everyone, sorry for the lack of clarity.
Yes, these are Upload shortcuts so far! Nice that there are a few others in Identify.

@dlnarango That sounds doable, though it might need some extra configuration on the user. Can you describe exactly how you would like it to be?

E.g. on Upload, press “shift+1” to select project A for the obs, “shift+2” for project B, where project A and B would be in some configuration file/setting?

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How do you find a list of these shortcuts?

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The new ones are listed in the first post.

In Identify - there is a keyboard icon to click - bottom left.

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Shameless plug, but I’ve also created a chrome extension that adds some shortcuts to the identify modal, principally “v” to mark an observation the community taxon cannot be improved: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/new-chrome-extension-to-select-that-the-community-taxon-cannot-be-improved/47239/14

Anybody is also welcome to also reuse my code to include in their project.

There are also another other chrome extensions created by @sessilefielder : https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-enhancement-suite-chrome-extension-v0-7-0-identifier-stats/44002

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https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/i-built-a-browser-extension-to-enter-observation-fields-with-one-click-in-the-identify-window-would-other-groups-use-it/44171

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I was in the first bunch to use sessilefielder’s enhancement. Now it feels like an integral part of my iNat.
674 users today.

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In my case, I want to annotate other observers’ records to add them to my project (in the Identify mode), not during the upload process

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In Identify - click to Annotations.
Keyboard icon bottom left has a long list of shortcuts.

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I spent some time working on this with Claude this morning and wasn’t able to make much progress. I got a quote from a developer to work on it for $150/hour which was a little steep lol. At the moment it is broken :(

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are you just trying to incorporate functionality from tiagolubiana’s code into your code? if so, it looks like that code has a permissive MIT license. so unless you’re trying to add additional features, you could almost just copypasta it into your thing, i think.

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Oh no I was just talking about the extension I wrote last year, I didn’t even scroll up to look at OP. Will check it out