I really did try to scour the forum before posting this. There are similar topics, but none seemed to address this specifically. And maybe this should be a “Feature Request” if there’s not an answer but I thought I’d start here. Is there a way to sort by organism name? An example would be in “Yo…

I’ve also wanted to sort observations this way, but have never been able to figure out how. The system may not be set up for this…

[image] jasonhernandez74: Do you mean like this? No, more like this… [Screen Shot 2023-03-11 at 20.47.01] where I could sort by name and then have all the occurrences of say, the Oxalis genus grouped together.

i don’t really understand why this kind of sorting on the Explore page would be useful for some folks, but there is already a related request, i think: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/implement-taxonomic-view-for-observations-search-page/244 . in the meantime, you could always export your observatio…

[image] pisum: don’t really understand why this kind of sorting on the Explore page would be useful for some folks I guess you don’t understand because it isn’t something that you find useful, which I don’t understand. For one instance, I’d like to sort the observations in a project I manage…

[image] norm_shea: I could do a search on all Woodsorrels, but then they would be intermingled based on date observed or added and more cumbersome to count. if this is for counting purposes, it seems like you could get leaf-level counts by switching to the Species view on the Explore page, an…

Yes, very true. But if I could sort them by name, I could find all Plantae, quickly scroll down and see there were three Oxalis articulata, two Oxalis corniculata, and three Oxalis debilis. And yes, I used Oxalis in this example, but I would also find it useful to find other genus. I could then …

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pisum March 12, 2023, 3:11pm 9

ok. i guess you can count however you like. it’s just not the way i would do it.

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