Ohhhhhh, this is Gerald. 197 observation fields is probably a site record (the notifications for the OP—yikes!), beating a record perhaps previously held by https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2. I will not subscribe to Gerald but may occasionally check in… clearly a lot happened since I’d looked about 3 months ago, particularly the name.
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LOL. Gerald, The world’s first beav-chuck-rat ssp. zibethicus
I think its a eleph-rhino
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I now stand corrected, my record is now 455 as of today, and that’s with going through a decent number, particularly @-mentions (mostly based on a couple of recent endeavors). On that note, I’d actually be interested in being able to find statistics for “number of notifications received per day” and “number of notifications cleared per day”.
I’ve recently been going through a ton of scoliid data from the Americas (a few months ago, we updated our taxonomy for Campsomerinae / Campsomerini to better reflect the split of Campsomeris sensu lato into a plethora of genera). We also now have some more appropriate common names added, so I feel like I should give an aside to check these out.
I’ve also been visiting the “ID purgatory” of Vespoidea to work on pushing as many of these as possible into the correct family (especially as for some reason old Vespoidea IDs tended to cover almost all of Hymenoptera). So I’ll give a bit of a note to check through any notifications from me on observations from the past day or two as some observations ended up being kicked up to Aculeata and even Apocrita. Regrettably, though, I was unable to find my target species (Liosphex varius).
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I regret looking at this thread and I didn’t even read it all! 
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I check iNat so regularly that I don’t think I’ve ever had more than 20, although I know someone who has over 25,000 cause they never check them.
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That’s a lot!!!
I check iNat multiple times per day, but I get between 100-200 notifications over a regular 24 hour period and I’ve had over 350 once or twice.
Identifying Unknowns: the gift that keeps giving back 
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whoa! a little while ago I had 257 when someone confirmed every single observation of the day from the last year, many of which I have faved.
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Just to be clear, if I want to see more than the normal 10, it’s possible to click on the number beside the ‘bubble of joy’? I had 17 this morning (!!!) which is a lot for me and I only saw 10.
Did you know the app will only display 200 notifications max? ha
For a long time, I didn’t understand that number. It kept going up. I was keeping up with the notifications on my dashboard, but I never reset that number. Weeks went by. It was over 9,000 when I finally figured out that I was supposed to do something about it. I figured out how to make it decrease by clicking on it, going to the bottom of a list, and clicking on “view your dashboard,” but could only do that 200 at a time. Getting it to zero took a while. That doesn’t really count, though. In a day? Not often over 100.
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That definitely counts! This is exactly the kind of insightful stories I hoped people might share about how they interact with header notifications :-) Thank you @sedgequeen!
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My personal highest was about 65 (I didn’t get an exact count) and that was because @sedgequeen had decided to go through all my observations and identify as many of them as she could. I had confirming ID notifications turned off, or it would probably have been much higher.
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Checking on someone who has gone quiet on iNat.
Their profile says, over a thousand notifications. Not coming back till iNat has the new notifications interface.
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Oof! It has been a long wait already.
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One day I went crazy with IDs. I got 302 nofications that day.
By the way, you can remove web as a tag because on the app you can go to activity and see the number too!
On Android it’s limited to 200 per category, so not sure how useful it is.
In any case, when the new system is released hopefully there will be fewer notifications to check.
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Yeah. Maybe something like 3 new IDs made by [username] [username] [username] on a observation by [username]. Is it known when the new system will the released?
I have been methodically unsubscribing on each obs, if I no longer need to see that. That helps against … 10 people agreeing that it IS a dwarf chameleon.
Being able to unsee ALL agreements doesn’t serve a useful purpose for me. I WANT to see the earlier and the reliable IDs.
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