I have seen a lot of discussions here recently with comments that have led me to believe that I am woefully inattentive to my observations. Generally, I upload an observation to a decently high taxon. There are what I call “regular sweepers” for bees, butterflies, hoppers and lady beetles, so those…

[image] sedgequeen: the percent of “Needs ID” that are truly not identifiable If they are truly not identifiable, please DQA them as such. marina_gorbunovaorbunova-Yolkina: they often start “old first”. Well, either way, it depends on their degree of persistence. If my observation is…

I love to filter random. I find that a lot of older observations have easily identifiable photos but went unnoticed at the time of upload due to a lack of identifiers. Observations with private locations are especially overlooked because they don’t appear in location filters.

I have read that before that this is possible but did not figure out yet how. Can you point me in the right direction please?

[image] benarmstrong: It’s more like - adhd brain won’t let me not do all that. :) Nothing to do with playing to an audience. I know exactly what you mean. I’m still like that when it my comes to my coin photography on the business side. It’s so bad that I’m now scanning and rescanning coi…

The same way you choose order by date uploaded or updated, the third (of five) option is “random”.

In Filters, under the little icons, there’s a heading “Sort By” and it’s under there. (I add this because until relatively recently I didn’t know about this and used the computer’s default.)

Sometimes I like looking at my dynamic life list to see the diversity I have recorded. When I see that circled green number at a high-level taxon, that bothers me, because it tells me that I may have observed more diversity than I realized. This one was stuck at “Dicots” for seven months: from Ango…

Good on you for taking initiative. I find that being able to identify my own observations, helps me ID others’ involving the same species. I did something similar here: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/139472140

Good that you specified! I wanted to use it and didn´t find it again, but your explanation helped :-)

I upload an observation, try to place it, and then follow notifications on it. I rarely tag others because I worry about taking up experts’ time with, perhaps, less-than-great photos of something. I look back on my observations from time to time because, like you, I learn from them. I can check a ne…

To what extent do you attend to observations after uploading them to iNaturalist?

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To what extent do you attend to observations after uploading them to iNaturalist?

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