Platform: Website Description of need: Please prioritise descendant taxa in autocomplete to speed identifier work. If I am identifying Diptera at the level of order and I want to place to Acalyptrate, the autocomplete could be a little more supportive I think. For example, I type in : “Ac” …a…

I’ve thought about this as a solution, but I think that any changes to the way suggestions are sorted will lead to accidental mis-IDs. For instance, if the observation taxon is wrong, an IDer might very well be searching for a species that is in a different taxonomic group. These kinds of misclicks …

This seems like it could be quite helpful. At the very least, it’d be nice to have the option to disable results for common names in other languages - if my account is set to English, it’s pretty unlikely that I’m searching by the Portuguese common name.

Is there a list for the autocomplete that works from a single letter? For me L for Lepidoptera is useful. I toggle between scientific names and common names in English or Afrikaans to find the shortest clicks to autocomplete for the same old same old. (Plant genus Crassula is hidden at the bottom …

[image] natev: I’ve thought about this as a solution, but I think that any changes to the way suggestions are sorted will lead to accidental mis-IDs. I agree. I do see the benefits of @sbushes ’s suggestion, but the flip side is that it would mean that autocomplete would work differently depen…

Perhaps prioritize for each User’s previous IDs? I don’t know how computationally complex that would be.

[image] rupertclayton: an identifier who gets used to a desired taxon corresponding to a particular sequence of letters will now find that different taxa may appear at the top of the list from one observation to the next. That’s a good point. I think there is a balance here in terms of how mu…

[image] sbushes: top 20 most identified taxa for an identifier For a taxon specialist. I want a homonym filter. Yesterday Lessertia - took me a few ID notifications rolling in to notice, planty person had chosen a spider . Plant identifiers all saw what they expected to

I like the IDea, but I agree with @rupertclayton that I think implementing this suggestion might cause issues because ID suggestion behavior would become unstable/unpredictable. I think the most important thing is for users (in this case, IDers specifically) to be certain what they are going to get …

One way to address the original issue that I probably should have suggested earlier is to use some kind of autocomplete app. This allows you to type a brief keystroke sequence and have it automatically expand to a much longer text string. For example, I use TextExpander and have lots of shortcuts s…

[image] rupertclayton: For example, I use TextExpander and have lots of shortcuts set, such as “;dcc”, which expands to “Dipterostemon capitatus capitatus”. There are several other similar apps, and I think some operating systems may offer this functionality built-in. I made a little tutorial …

Prioritise descendant or proximate taxa in autocomplete to speed identifier work

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tiwane February 9, 2024, 6:33pm 11

I made a little tutorial for using these. They’re lifesavers!

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Prioritise descendant or proximate taxa in autocomplete to speed identifier work

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