I’ve gotten everything I could minus fungi since there aren’t really any annotations to apply. After taking so long to go through them, I’d say the most annoying aspect of annotating is the annotations moving when you select one and causing you to mis click. It can be a tedious process, but it also helped me take the time to add any behaviors I captured in the observation fields and overall made me take a closer look at my observations for things I missed. Each observation also had a good memory attached to it, and I’d recommend to anyone to just go back through and see what you might have missed.
These downy woodpeckers are a good example of a behavior I never noted in the observation field:
I’d say the most annoying aspect of annotating is the annotations moving when you select one and causing you to mis click. It can be a tedious process,
Too late to benefit you, but for anyone else: if you go through the identify page, there are keyboard shortcuts for adding annotations that let you do it much faster. For instance typing “a a e o l a s f” marks alive, organism, adult, female.
Very cool exercise! I wonder if it will help you get more IDs.
I went through all my 3,000+ observations last year and added notes and annotations to all of my non-RG observations. I made an attempt to ID each non-RG organism and made notes as to my identification process and what resources I used. I learned a ton.
Well done! I am really bad with annotations, but try to improve. Since quite a while I am annotating any of my own observations that gets an ID… but sometimes I do not find the time to even do that. … and I rather spend my time here IDing then annotating. But I really do appreciate anyone annotating my stuft as well.
I can’t claim to have annotated all my observations, but I do have it as part of my submission workflow. After submitting a group of observations (which I do on the website, not the mobile app), I go back through that group and add annotations. That way it’s not burdensome, and gives me a chance to review (read “admire”) what I added that day. :-)
Cool! Recently I asked the devs to put the annotations on the upload screen as optional. I think it would be a good way to encourage and help to get more statistics from observations, instead of having to go back and fill 1 by 1 later.
Hell yeah! I’m in the process of doing this myself. I originally used the app, where you can’t add annotations, and was horrified to see all the fields left blank when I logged in on the browser version, lol.
