Uploading observations of the same individual over time

[kiwifergus]

@franzanth

I argued that the timestamps are useful for tracking how organisms change over time, but petragloyn’s suggestion that I should combine both into one and add the timestamp in the comment is also valid.

You can feel free to disregard any suggestions you don’t agree with. It is your observation after all! Also, iNat does stipulate “at a moment in time”, and we generally use the date as a differentiation for that, but if the organism changes significantly over a shorter time frame than a day, then absolutely hours should be a better differentiation!

@franzanth

Maybe we need a feature that links different observations of the same individual together? Or adding timestamps for individual photos?

Try this, for linking observations that have some sort of connection to one another, but stopping short of creating a project for them. Some of us use it for lepidoptera raising:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-the-field-similar-observation-set-for-linking-observations-of-lepidoptera-when-raising-on/1018