This happens to me fairly often: I click in the name field as the first step of supplying an initial ID, either on the mobile app or on the website. Before I start typing, the computer vision results appear. I scan them quickly to see if I can select the correct ID without any further typing, …

“Uma ino” should be enough to shortlist your species. First three letters of each part of name is usually enough. To my thinking, AI suggestions are for those that don’t know the name or for those that want to not wear out their keyboards too fast… Typing in and accessing the auto-complete is for t…

you are a happy man! i can only tell you what happens to me fairly often: 1. I click in the name field as the first step of supplying an initial ID, on the website. 2. Then i wait 10 to 15 minutes until the computer vision results appear. And nothing that i type in during this time is accepted. I…

@mreith Then you have a happy internet connection! Or not, as the case may be… while you wait for AI/CV list, starting to type a name should immediately change to fetching that list for auto completion. Bang in the 3+3 letters, wait for your happy internet connection to do its thing, and then pick y…

I understand intellectually that the computer vision list and the autocomplete list are two different things that are constructed through entirely different code paths. But as a user, it is both weird and inconvenient that the presented list gets worse when I supply more information. Of course I wou…

[image] sullivanribbit: The “Uma ino” case wouldn’t require too many typed characters, in this particular case. Most genera are more than three letters though “u ino” and “uma i” will also pick up that species.

for Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae, typing “hem nov” puts it at top of list. Typing “he no” gets it to 6th on the list. For MOST species just 3+3 is enough, but 4+4 will make it top for nearly all species. It works on vernacular names too, so I am not excited when I see bulk additions of vernacular names…

[image] sullivanribbit: Aaaah, I didn’t realize that the typing autocomplete worked on more than one word prefix. That is very good to know! It works on project names too… I had a project “In My Back Yard”, and for a while I was able to add obs to that project just by entering “I M B”. Somet…

[image] kiwifergus: Sometimes if you type it too fast, or if you type too slow (ie I don’t really know why!) it seems to not send for the shortlist. In those cases (where it doesn’t come back in the expected timeframe) you can give it a g-up by adding a space to the end of it, which triggers the…

Do you want to keep this request open for the time being? Also, Uma rule. Saw my first Uma inornata this year and it was awesome.

Typing autocomplete list should take computer vision knowledge into account

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sullivanribbit June 23, 2019, 4:00am 7

Aaaah, I didn’t realize that the typing autocomplete worked on more than one word prefix. That is very good to know!

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Typing autocomplete list should take computer vision knowledge into account

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