Is there a way to search through observations that I have made that don’t have annotations yet? I want to add annotations to all my observations but it’s going to take a while to sort through all of them. Just want to make sure I get them all. I’ve been lazy about my annotations and let them pile up…

it depends on what you’re trying to do exactly. see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2/18792#heading--annotations https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-filter-without-annotation-not-working-properly/30148

To find my unannotated observations, I use “Identify.” I search on on my observations “Without Annotation” Alive for animals and “Without Annotation” Flowers and Fruits" for plants. I’m careful to mark those two annotations for all my observations that I annotate, so I will be able to find the one…

I use the " Identify" page and under “more filters” choose “Person” and “Without Annotations”. Don’t forget to choose “Research Grade”. ". Unfortunately you will have to do each type of annotation separately, unless someone knows how to combine them all into one url. It would be nice if there was …

[image] bbk-htx: how to combine them all There is a tool for that https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/announcing-the-universal-metadata-tool-beta/53182/124

Glad to see people promoting the tool and it would be very useful for this kind of situation, but be aware that the way the iNat URL system works, if you generate a combined search for observations missing annotations all at once, it will eliminate anything that has even one annotation value. It pro…

I recently made projects for all the different annotations. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/annotation-projects You can use those in many ways to filter. For your question specifically, you can use this url: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=jweaver22&verifiable=an…

Searching through my observations that I haven't added annotations to

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pisum November 30, 2024, 6:26pm 2

it depends on what you’re trying to do exactly.

see:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2/18792#heading--annotations
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-filter-without-annotation-not-working-properly/30148

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