When I’m using Identify, I find myself frequently typing the same species name over and over and over. This begs the question: is there a menu of frequently identified species available? I might have run into it accidentally, but don’t know how I did it. 2-3 times suddenly this list of about 3 sp…

can you provide specific examples of what your Identify settings / url would be, and what species?

[image] Changes to the Agree button/functionality and addition of Markdown in comments and ID Remarks just as an example, this time of the year, i’ll often look at observations that have been identified as Rudbeckia amplexicaulis, and i’ll end up invariably doing one of 3 sets of actions in 95% o…

The thing I suspect you’re referring to is a known bug: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/spurious-dropdown-menu-appears-in-identify-mode/10114

Sometimes, I set up keyboard shortcuts for creating oft-used bits of text such as you describe. I don’t know that you need an iNat feature, if you can find such a function on the platform(s) you prefer. (Not that a keyboard shortcut as above would handle your annotations .) [image] Changes to the…

what you’re describing seems like it more directly addresses what dan_johnson was asking for. my suggestion that was quoted from another post would be to combine multiple actions into a single keystroke. for example, pressing “1” would add an ID and add a comment and add an annotation. whereas with …

Yes, you are right and the shortcut text I described would not handle the accompanying annotations. Perhaps someone with the right kind of expertise can describe if writing a macro of some kind would address such a need.

[image] teellbee: Perhaps someone with the right kind of expertise can describe if writing a macro of some kind would address such a need. yes, back in the day, i had thought about making a whole page that would serve as a prototype for what i was describing, but it’s a lot of work with that …

Menu of frequently identified species in Identify?

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arboretum_amy July 19, 2020, 7:29pm 5

There is a thing which might be at least sort of related. It’s not what you frequently identify, but what people frequently observe nearby

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Menu of frequently identified species in Identify?

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