A friend asked me to tag them when I log observations of certain species. I see their name, but not how to tag them on my observation.

In a comment, ID, or description on your observation, tag them like this: @JeniferAK [EDIT - in my initial post I was mistaken about tags in descriptions and ID comments not working. Now they seem to work everywhere.]

Also your friend could create and bookmark a filter to always show your observations (that they have not already reviewed) of a chosen species or group. For example, this one would be for Pycnoporellus fulgens: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=367273&user_id=jeniferak After follo…

[image] jdmore: If you tag them as part of the observation description, it will look the same, but they will not be notified. [image] Send group messages I recently didn’t get a notification for an @ because it was in the description section of an observation, apparently that doesn’t send …

Tested and confirmed - thanks @bouteloua ! Either I was imagining things before, or it was quietly fixed within the past year or two. Further edited my initial response above.

Great. Thanks jdmore. I’ll see how that works.

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bouteloua July 28, 2019, 11:32pm 4

I’ve gotten notifications for being mentioned in observation descriptions.

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