How to navigate observations when filters are applied

I use iNat filters all the time. For example a particular genus in a particular location. When I have applied the filter, I want to be able to see the full-page view of each observation, and would like to easily be able to navigate from one full-page obs to the next. Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see a way to do this. What I have to do is click on the first filtered observation to view the full page for it, then go back to the page of gridded filtered results, then click on the next observation to see its full page detail. If I click on the left/right arrows at the top right, that just navigates to that person’s next obs, which isn’t what I want to see.

It would be really nice to be able to to through each of the filtered observations without having each time to back up the grid view. Is there a way to do this? I really hope that I am just missing something obvious.

I just open the watch in a new tab.

I click for the popup - and go to full page only for a few difficult ones.
Depending on what you are doing, you can set the popup to run on the annotations and projects, instead of the IDs.

If you are in Identify there are lots of useful keyboard shortcuts (for the popup view) That is intended to be the fast and efficient way.

It sounds like you are using Explore to look at observations?

If you click on the tab in the top menu labelled “Identify” it will take you to a different interface where you can open up a full view of the observation (it is organized a bit differently than on the observation page) and navigate through your search results using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

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Just to add to this - this is probably your best bet but make sure you check the filters - by default only “needs id” observations will be shown and observations you have marked as “reviewed” will not be shown.

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It would be helpful if you could share one of your search URLs.

I usually open observations in a new tab. For example, every morning when I search for an observation of the day I go to and scroll though faved observations. For ones of interest I right click them and open them in new tabs. Once I’ve got a bunch of observations opened in new tabs, I look through them and can start evaluating them.

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