Hi probably silly question and easy solution, but well, here we go: A few days ago I saw in my dashboard that someone had tagged me in a post, but I did not have the time to go into that. In wanted to have a look into that now, but I am not sure how I can find that post easily without having to go …

If it was in a comment (as opposed to in a description or in the body of an ID, etc.), then you can find it by doing a search in comments: https://www.inaturalist.org/comments?utf8=✓&q=%40ajott&commit=Search If it wasn’t in a comment, finding it is more difficult. You can use your browser’s “find …

[image] jwidness: as opposed to in a description or in the body of an ID :grimacing: going to start using exclusively stand-alone comments now, thanks for this tip!

Actually, I just remembered you can search on the description pretty easily too. Here’s a search to find observations where tiwane’s username appears in the description (just as an example): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?search_on=description&q=tiwane It’s maybe not super helpful since …

Thanks, found the comment in question with that. But I am surprised that there is no easily comprehensible way to find when somebody mentioned you. Especially as the side is already good enough to register as soon somebody mentions you on the dashboard. But the search function will do for now… a go…

Hopefully the notifications revamp will improve the ways we can interact with mentions, for example, maybe we’ll get a keep unread feature. There’s also a well-supported feature request for better identification search, including search of ID body comments.

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How to find when someone tagged me?

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