Organizing My Favorited Observations

General
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Is there a good way to organize the observations I’ve favorited? There are a few that I need to reference occasionally while identifying, ones I would like to come back to later to ID once I learn more about the species, and ones that I have favorited just because I liked the photo.

My problem is scrolling through 6 pages of favorited observations to find one where I and another identifier had a discussion or shared something important is kind of a pain. I thought about creating something like an excel sheet for my favorited observations so I can find certain things but that just feels like a lot of work for me right now.

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A traditional project, with only you as a member. Then you can search by taxon / location / etc ?

Or observation field with your chosen text ?

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I also have the same issue, there are observations that I want to refer to, unknowns that I want to get back to or other interesting taxa. I have the iNaturalist Enhancement Suite chrome extension which is a good base, I then just use one of the AI model to modify it and add custom pages for me, I have filters and searches for my observations, but not yet my favorites since I don’t have that many. So now I can search and filter through all my ID’s. I found it surprisingly fast and simple to create custom functionality for my needs.

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Can you say a bit more about this please? I use that extension, too, and as far as I am aware it doesn’t offer any AI model or allows modifying it.

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With 47 pages of favorites, i pretty much have given up even trying, and barely use my favorites pages anymore. I now use traditional projects to organize things and have like 140 projects.

This does mean users who don’t allow adding observations to projects they aren’t in, affects how much attention I give to their Chironomidae observations. I used to care more about that, but don’t as much now. It’s their loss and their right to use that setting.

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I have set up a bunch of traditional projects to collect this observations. Eg you could join and use this one for your references: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/01-reference-observations

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The code for the extension is on Github, you can download it and modify it. But it does require some coding expertise, not much though. Then I just create a filter and search for my observations page, it looks like this https://i.postimg.cc/JzvwQwcq/Screenshot-2026-07-10-at-00-14-03.png. Maybe the author will add that functionality.

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It’s still a good bit of work, but you could make some journal entries like “Faved observations I use for ID” and then paste in a list of links.

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Ah, thanks for clarifying.

I’m wary of feature bloat, but a better way to access IDs does look useful.

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You might want to consider voting for this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-search-feature-in-favorites/2502

It would be nice even if we could use a URL modification to view our favourites in explore view! At the moment, the favourites function is not very useful.