I know I can get a bit discouraged sometimes when the first batch of observations I see in Identify are all “picked over”, either because they’re all species that are difficult to identify, or the photos aren’t high quality or sufficient for showing diagnostic characters, or something else. A few tr…

I think it would be really fun to run the algorithm on everything, and post the results… not give them any weight in community ID (or maybe just 0.1 weight or something) but allow them to be searchable. Then i could go through everything the algorithm thinks is Coast Live Oak and verify which ones a…

I often see a genus level ID that occurs often, and if I think I can find literature on it, I go looking. Researching into the factors and features that differentiate species is a great way to learn about them, but can sometimes be challenging from a terminology perspective. I forget a lot fo what I…

It’s not a ‘tip’ as it does not exist, but I would love to see an optional ‘blind’ ID mode, where you can be presented records where the date and location are presented, along with the photos, but any existing ID’s hidden from view. Allow you to enter enter your ID, then check to see if you are in …

there was a blind ID study for a while. Not sure if it still works. I tried it and found it incredibly hard because the comments weren’t included. Many photos had more than one plant and i couldn’t see which one they had ID’ed or described. I had no idea how much i used the original ID and comments …

It might make a fun little “window into iNat” in the same vein as the global recent obs thing and that “badges” thing recently, where you could select an area and/or a top level taxa, and have it throw obs photos at you and see if you can blind ID them to match CID. Not to put IDs, just as a “pract…

I had started making a user script that would hide all IDs on the website, but I never got very far. I think that would be a better way to go about this.

I was thinking something that could track your score etc, and maybe prompt you to practice again a week later on taxa branches that you showed weaker results etc. Really depends on how bling the idea wants to become :)

Links in the About tabs on Taxon pages In order to help with identifications (until such time as there is a journal page on the taxon pages), we have started adding links to comments that deal with identifications (mainly species in a genus, but much more for subspecies within a species (which are…

@bouteloua , thanks for the suggestions! I sometimes do a variation of your “robot mode” by adding species-level IDs to things that are in monotypic genera (or at least monotypic in North America) where the common name is the same as the genus name and therefore observations often get identified only…

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jtklein February 26, 2019, 3:34pm 14

Have announced a small side project of mine that is targeted at making identifications a bit more fun here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/am-looking-for-some-test-users-of-an-identification-app/430

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