Hawaii is part of the Oceania continent. I didn’t know that either; it caught me by surprise. So the tool is working correctly.
I updated this 2 tools now:
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i haven’t done a thorough vetting, but these look reasonable and useful and appear to be retrieving data in a relatively efficient way. just for clarity, i would explicitly define in plain language exactly what “first” means in these tools. (it looks like first based on observed date.)
here, my only note would be that i would look at the original post here and see if some of the desired functionality there could be worked into your tool: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/displaying-a-chronologically-sorted-life-list/65042.
i noticed there was some strangeness in the way common names seemed to be not getting retrieved even when they exist. i didn’t look into it, but perhaps there’s something going on with how your tool is deciding to parse languages?
UPDATE: it looks like you’ve added place and taxon as optional filters for your lifelist tool. i’m going to link a few other threads where people have mentioned the desire for this sort of functionality just so that others can more easily find your tool in the future:
- https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-first-observed-sort-option-to-life-list/17715
- https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-my-life-list-taxa-by-week-month-year-or-major-location-e-g-state-country/65463
- https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/display-the-species-i-have-observed-by-date-of-first-observation/52448
- https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/my-personal-first-observations-of-a-species/42408
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Is it possible to have this tool also display branches in which you haven’t observed lower levels of taxonomy?
For instance, in many cases you can only get an ID to the tribe or genus level, or even family, and you haven’t observed a more specific taxa of that taxonomic branch. In such cases, it could be interesting to see the first taxa you observed of such branch
I do like how this app points out my bias.
Its easy to stay up to 3am searching for critters. But getting up to look for critters at 6am…no way. If I am making observations at that time, I probably stayed up. All night is fine, but early mornings shouldnt exist.
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I will take a look if I can add it, maybe have a configuration to show all the taxa? Like the default view should be only species or lower (subspecies, etc…) and have an optional configuration to show higher taxons (tribe, genus, etc…)
This is super cool. I love it!
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I added an option to display all taxa now
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This is awesome.
Perfect, I had been searching for a way to access this information for a long time! Thank you very much, it’s fantastic!
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I’m both early bird (26) and night owl (58). Without checking, I think all my early bird and night owl observations are at or just outside home: a house centipede running down the shower curtain, a millipede of the genus Narceus on the kitchen or bathroom floor, a literal night owl, a chuck-will’s-widow (a nightjar), frogs in the background of one of the bird recordings, a bird I heard when I got up to make breakfast. The last time I left the house in the morning before 7, as far as I remember, was when I had just moved the day before (had lunch at the old house, dinner at the new) and discovered that I had left my rice, millet, and quinoa behind.
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I built another tool 
, hehe. It’s a tool to visualize your profile. It’s similar to the achievements tool but more condensed. No achievements this time, just stats.
https://glauberramos.github.io/inat/profile
If you guys have any feedback or suggestions please let me know.
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How fun!
The chart with the ‘Species by Category’ looks like it should be clickable, but clicking on them doesn’t do anything.
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Maybe if you click should go to inaturalist observations page for that taxon by that user?
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That would make sense.
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This is awesome, neat to see which ones have stayed at a low number of observations and which have been identified a lot more since. Would you be able to expand this to first observer of a species in a country or state or would that require too much processing?
I will check, I think it’s possible yes, and it would be faster because it will be less data than worldwide
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First observer of long tailed duck because of a mounted specimen with date and location of collection!
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wow! impressive