… you try to put at least a basic ID on every observation in your region which doesn’t already have one
… you learn about a new organism and immediately remember an observation in your region which you were unable to ID to kingdom
… and spend more than an hour searching for it so you can ID it
… you start reviewing Research Grade observations
… you start recognizing observations you’ve reviewed before, but skipped, thinking “Maybe I’ll know enough to ID this later”
… while reviewing observations sorted in random order
… from one of the iconic groups
… on the same day you skipped them
… someone you know asks you to identify a photograph
… which someone else asked them to identify
… and the scientific name comes out of your mouth before the common name
… you’ve been the first person to identify a species on iNaturalist.
… from a genus you didn’t know existed two years ago
… on a continent you’ve never visited
… more than once