Platform(s): website URLs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify Description of need: Keyboard shortcuts are used for many routine identification tasks, and make it much easier to perform ID’s (especially when doing many). In every ID session, I use zoom, next/previous photo, prev/next…

On the identification screen, create a shortcut key to play the first sound file for the observation

tiwane December 14, 2022, 11:00pm 5

This has been added. Press space to play the observation’s first sound.

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