For those of you who may not know, the “suggest an ID” bar accepts partial names, by producing a list of “closest matches”. Thus, eup mac becomes Euphorbia maculata, mall becomes Anas platyrhynchos (ie Mallard), and so on. I started a spreadsheet of shortcuts! Specifically, short ones, one to three…

I am happy with the pair of 3 letter words - poked by adding a 4th letter if I need to. But I am not focused on a narrow repetitive slice, so not the target audience.

I think it should be a feature of iNaturalist. It is suboptimal to try to do it “from the outside”. The need is to have the most efficient shortcuts when identifying. In relation this discussion, I propose this feature request: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-for-taxa/17642/5

[image] astra_the_dragon: Thus, eup mac becomes Euphorbia maculata… There are some weird surprises in there mh = Euphorbia maculata too heh (2nd rank)

yaasss! hey @nathantaylor and @janeyair !

there are some weird ones in there! for most of the bird ones, it’s because of the standard four-letter banding codes (more info here ). for example, “bn” brings up Himantopus mexicanus, Black-necked Stilt, because its banding code is BNST. in this way, pretty much every bird has its own four-letter …

The list now has about 900 entries and counting! I’ve included the 50 most common species and am working on finding the best shortcuts for many common taxa at various ranks. If you have a taxon you identify frequently and want me to work it out for you, add your taxon to the “reverse” tab and I’ll …

I just submitted a feature request and realize that this cheat sheet may be standing in the way of its adoption. Or at the least will be needed to be worked around. Do people really use these? Being specialized in Fungi and Amoebozoa there don’t seem to be any useful short cuts. Perhaps this is why …

Hi, welcome to the Forum! I think there may be a misunderstanding. I’m compiling data on an existing iNat feature that allows partial matches to auto-complete when entering the name (scientific or common) of a taxon. It’s not a definitive list, and certainly isn’t affecting the existing functionali…

Thanks for the quick reply! What I would suggest is that all the shortcut options shouldn’t be available to the identifier if the identifier is identifying something already identified to a kingdom/class/genus already. That the work that has been done already by the AI or by the poster, or any other…

For example with something super common already identified to Agaricomycotina which would encompass it and all lookalikes: [Untitled] I have to type four letters to get near where I would like to be (past the shortcuts?) It seems like it is a lot of unnecessary work for the identifier. [Untitled1]

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raymie November 2, 2020, 3:49pm 31

All North American birds have a four letter banding code that can be used as a shortcut.

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