Whenever I look at the People page on the iNaturalist site, I am always amazed at the number of observations that the top observers manage to rack up for the current month and the year. It invariably leads to a question I ask every time: how do they do it? A secret technique? Being touched by the na…

[image] bazwal: If you can’t recognise the differences between things, what is there to appreciate? Haven’t you ever seen a child a few months old in awe of a flower or a duck or a butterfly? The child can’t name anything at all, but is certainly appreciating nature.

Thanks for the suggestion! I tried that, but my phone GPS doesn’t give very accurate coordinates for photos for some reason, so when I load them into iNat, they are sometimes incorrect. Again, hardware.

Quality, not quantity. Seconded!

Thanks for the replies everyone! I was really just wondering about what methods the power observers use to get their numbers. It’s not really a personal goal for me to try to achieve, although I suppose I could try doing this one day to spice up an outing.

@dinofelis Btw with regard to streamlining workflow, I remembered I posted about this before and got some overview of different practices. Would be interesting to document the time involved in a few different approaches to get a sense for how it could be streamlined. I could imagine a Hackathon-st…

another factor: there are tons of autistic people on iNat and we do a thing called hyperfocus where we can do a tremendous amount of …stuff… in a relatively short amount of time. I am not claiming any power user other than myself as autistic but a bunch of us are . Autistic hyperfocus and related i…

[image] charlie: [image] bazwal: I could have easily generated several thousand observations. Personally, I would find that kind of exercise crushingly boring, though yeah see, to an autistic person with this as their special interest, it isn’t crushingly boring, it actually feels really …

[image] bazwal: I’m on the spectrum myself, so it would seem neurodivergent people are perhaps … more diverse than you seem to be suggesting here. Oh sorry, i don’t mean to suggest that all autistic people would want to spend time generating several thousands of observations i am just saying …

[image] bazwal: To me, quality is much more important than quantity, as I find the process of identification by far the most rewarding aspect of recording. This is why I have so few observations – and why I have done many IDs of taxa for which I have zero observations. I could have taken a di…

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This thread also discusses methods for increasing the efficiency of observing: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/speed-inatting-ideas/19009

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