Hi! I’m brand new to the website (and the hobby!), only having joined yesterday. One thing i’ve noticed is that it seems like most observations that are identified don’t get annotated as well? I feel like it would help researchers a lot to do the annotations of at least alive/dead. Ex. I live in…

I don’t think it’s selfish or lazy! Everyone is going to use iNat in a different way or value different aspects of it, and that’s ok. Welcome to iNat @BrythonLexi ! I’m also from the Philly area. As far as annotations go, my own opinion/experience is that the alive/dead annotation probably isn’t th…

I like to move the Unknown mountain, so add only limited annotations. But I have learnt to annotate my own observations. Especially 1 Dead, hoping that can be filtered / blurred one day. 2 Fruiting, because I use that to filter for useful ish photos. 3 Caterpillars - I know that is useful. 4 F…

Look, just develop a fungi obsession and then you won’t have to worry about annotations

I usually make annotations where I can determine the sex of the animal, I have made lots of those. I also usually annotate a dead animal. Occasionally I annotate juvenile animals. I don’t annotate regular adult animals without sex determinations.

nearly 9 million observations :see_no_evil:

since it’s already been declared “not lazy” to be one of those people who observe via the mobile app and therefore can’t add annotations at upload, and I am one of those people – I’d go a step further and suggest that I view adding annotations more as the task of identifiers or anyone who gives obse…

I feel annotations are important so in theory I add them to all my observations – in theory. Actually, I am at least a few thousand observations behind right now. Maybe I’ll catch up in the winter. (Maybe not.)

[image] BrythonLexi: One thing i’ve noticed is that it seems like most observations that are identified don’t get annotated as well? Several people have mentioned why observations may not be annotated these days but it might also be worth pointing out that iNaturalist didn’t always offer the …

Thanks for a link. I did 10… that makes a big difference, right? :D

It would be great if they could add the annotations in the app (iOS and Android), sometimes I forget to go on my desktop and add these. I don’t think it is lazy at all, we just can’t do it on the apps. I wonder if they will add it to any updates they do (do the programmers read these?)

Great idea @bccricket and welcome to the iNaturalist forum!

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