It took me a while to think of this method so I thought I should share to help others. When IDing other people’s observations using the Identify module I don’t usually add annotations to other people’s observations because it slows me down. But I would like to add annotations to my own observations…

This is the URL I’ve bookmarked for this purpose: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=true&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&user_id=tiwane Replace “tiwane” with your own username after user_id= to see your own reviewed observations.

Thank you for this. After Anne Katrine Rose (sorry sp?) pointed out that most flowering obs are not annotated as such - I need to go thru almost all my own obs! Your workaround makes that easy.

[image] lappelbaum: After all these settings I could easily go through all my observations uploaded today. Add my annotations, then right arrow key, and repeat. Don’t forget to use the keyboard shortcuts!

There are keyboard shortcuts for annotations? Please share

A lot of plants are annotated incorrectly as well. The other day I was looking at the St John’s Wort genus (Hypericum) for observations marked as “fruiting” and most of them were actually flowering, not fruiting.

There can be flowers, buds, and fruit all at once on the same plant and not every photo in the observation may show all the stages annotated. So you may see a photo of a flower annotated as “fruit”. I found this frustrating when trying to find photos of fruit.

Another thing I found that really helped me go through my observations and others was to use AutoHotkey to somewhat automate it. Because some of the keys for the keyboard shortcuts are far apart (eg L>A for life stage adult), I set one key to press L then A, one for L then N, etc. It makes going thr…

There can be, but if you look at the observations you see that is not the case for many, if not the majority, of them.

That - is why I keep whining for - annotations on each photo. Not going to happen in a hurry. Meanwhile iNat photos and annotations are not so useful.

I’d like to know the shortcut for lifestage, if anyone knows it.

Method for adding annotations to my own observations

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Method for adding annotations to my own observations

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