Hello all! :) I am the founder of two projects which have been running for a while now. However, I rarely use the journal feature. What do you guys use it for? Maybe we can inspire each other!
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Maybe for news or remarkable observations.
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I use mine to post upcoming events like Bioblitzes and other things that local members might be interested in. But our projects are geographically based so that wouldn’t make as much sense for worldwide projects.
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See https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/australasian-fishes/journal for an exemplar project of how to use journal posts
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I use it for bioblitz and competition news and postings.
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Mostly for stats marks, every 5-10 thousand observation I write a post to commit them.
To some blitz or competition information and news.
Sometimes for announce of offline meetings.
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To post the relevant literature.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/orobancheae-of-the-old-world/journal
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Not as a writer, but a reader.
ID blitzes, or helping to tidy up new taxonomy.
Relevant academic research.
Detailed guides to how to ID species A versus B.
It is an easier place for us to find something again, as opposed to a long copypasta comment in … which obs was it again?
This for example is why my IDs are mostly restricted to a very cautious - it’s a bee?
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It certainly depends on the nature of the project - particularly how much of a ‘team’ you want your members to be. For some projects it’s useful to post advice on how to generate observations, or how to use iNat most effectively for the aims of the project and relatively frequent progress updates. For any project it’s worth having occasional updates on the project’s aims just to remind people that it exists (but not so often that it’s annoying!). A just-for-fun type project I’d imagine probably two to four a year might be easily enough.
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I use mine for a wrap up of how the year went or anything news worthy.
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That is a good example but I noticed that they are archived by date, whereas if it is being used, for example, to discuss differences between species A and species B, is it possible to archive by topic? Or can it be searched?
Already seeing lots of wonderful ideas here so far! Thank you everyone for sharing! :)
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Search box - top right
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This project is about journaling. The project journal post is simply an open invitation for people to write journal entries. The entries are posted as comments to the project’s journal entry:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/journey-of-a-thousand-miles/journal/archives/2017/02
I make a new journal entry for the project every month to keep the participants’ entries sorted by month.
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We have been writing Observation of the Week posts throughout our summer-long Butterfly Blitz projects for the past five years. The goal is to share knowledge about different species with project participants as well as to provide recogntion to observers for great photos, rare species observations, etc.
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/cvc-butterfly-blitz-2019/journal
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/cvc-butterfly-blitz-2020/journal
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/cvc-butterfly-blitz-2021/journal
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/cvc-butterfly-blitz-2022/journal
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/cvc-butterfly-blitz-2023/journal
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