holy jeez. I’m about 1500 species and that feels like it’s been a slog
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Great! Now I need to watch my iNat “dashboard” so I won’t miss it when I hit 1000 species. Seems a lot like watching the car dashboard, so you won’t miss when the odometer hits 100,000. (Don’t you hate it when it rolls over, but you’re driving on the highway, and can’t stop to snap a photo?)
At least I can watch for iNat milestones from the safety of my sofa.
846 species, and counting…
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I’ve only once rolled over to 100,000 in a car. I happened to be on a very rural road. I pulled off the road to dig out my flip phone then when I got back on the road I just kept hitting the button to take a photo while keeping my eyes on the road. I happened to get one right as it turned over.
PS I’m not speeding, the speed limit on this road is 75 mph.
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Oh the days of 130mph speedometers…
burying the needle on my '67… scary fun. Do not do it!
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The new profile feature showing our number of annotations tells me I need to step up my game: 60,000 IDs but barely over 1,000 annotations:
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I have a lot of IDs and even less annotations - I guess I’m just too lazy to annotate most of the time 
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I make it a habit to annotate my own observations after an upload session, using the Identify page.
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Thank you for bringing this up; I just realized that I only have 43 annotations across 23k IDs 
TIL you can do annotations from the ID page… previously I thought you had to open the observation in the new tab…
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Oh my, another obsession revealed to the world… 
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Better ratio than me!
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I found it enjoyable to create a little more depth in the data I collected, so all my observations are annoted.
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Oha, new feature… love it. Will hopefully motivate me to do better… I started a while back to annotate my own (old) observations that get a new ID from someone, but I rarely annotate besides that
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I don’t usually do annotations as I upload or as I ID. I like to do only annotations when I annotate. I get a rhythm going on the keyboard. I just annotated some of my old insect observations to get my total up to 7000. A whole lot of AA EO LA and a few AA EO LN. However, I’ve mostly been annotating flowering plants this year to help me create a bloom schedule for Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve.
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I annotate for (flowering) phenology graphs - if the target is a reachable volume. Chewing these
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/950711-Knowltonia-tenuifolia
Nearly there - then perhaps I can find one in life!
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I finally wised up this year - inspired by the tireless Tom Norton (@tsn) - and started annotating almost all of the flowering plants I identify. For some time before that, I had been annotating feathers and caterpillars, even if I didn’t know the genus or species (I usually don’t), because I think that helps brings those observations to the attention of specialist identifiers.
So much data, so little time.
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I was mostly working on observations in my area and towards the beginning and end of the peak in observations to get a better idea of when they start and finish blooming. I did do most of this species because there aren’t a whole lot of observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/168267-Sabatia-gentianoides
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Noticed it at 123454 so had to do two more and cap it
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Excellent!
What’s your next goal? 222222? 654321?
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Eventually! But I think maybe 200k next ;)
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