Currently I mainly use iNat from my computer to identify mainly birds, and I check the alerts from the icon in the top right corner where they come up. However I find it slightly irritating if I happen to click off the alerts or close the tab etc, then I lose all those alerts and haven’t been able t…

If you go to your Dashboard, you should be able to see them there. To the right of the notification icon you are looking at, there is an icon for your account. Hover your mouse over that, and the first item is Dashboard.

I agree - I get the same behaviour and it’s quite frustrating as I do like to follow-up on almost all my notifications. So I’ve found two ways to work with this: (i) starting at the bottom (oldest) part of the notification list, I right-click on each item and select “open in a new tab” and work my …

The problem with this is that when we have 150 new notifications and we want to make sure we don’t miss any, it if not clear how many red/new notifications there were when they are all wiped out, and it’s not clear how far down the dashboard list we should go to ensure we get them all. I used to go…

Maybe try this as a workaround?: https://www.inaturalist.org/comments?mine=true @nastos you should be able to disable notifications for ‘agreeing’ IDs in your Account Settings (2nd option down under ‘Notifications’).

Thanks - it’s not that I want to disable them, but that I rarely want to look at them. If I have just 5 notifications for today, I will still review them all, but when I have 150 notifications, I want to be able to skip all the agreements. So I still want those notifications, but it would be nice i…

I find this incredibly annoying as well. It’s not unusual that I might come back from an extended field trip and find that I have 200+ notifications to look through, and my usual strategy is as @nastos detailed above - open them all in a new tab. It’s a bit unweildy but I have no problem doing it …

We have been promised better management of Notifications for 3 years … I work down my dashboard. But that is also weird, the clock ticks back, then I get some from ‘yesterday’ but have learnt to keep scrolling down, to where the clock is still ticking for today! At very least we should have a func…

It is possible to work through most notifications individually using the app. If I get a lot of notifications over night, I first go through them in the app, if they don’t look like a disagreement. The remaining ones, I open in the browser as separate tabs. By this workflow, I am able to pre-filte…

There are many threads on the forum that address this question already and reading through them could be valuable. Here’s an example: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-handle-a-growing-number-of-notifications/34735 which contains a link to a site that allows you to view notifications. You can…

Thanks for the comments - I agree with most, seems that the issues may not be fully resolved yet but will keep trying my best to get to everything :)

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