# \#brainstorm **URL:** https://forum.inaturalist.org/tag/brainstorm/17.md [Latest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.inaturalist.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.inaturalist.org/tags.md) --- ## [Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-a-revamped-explore-observations-search-page/8439)
**Author:** [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Replies:** 413\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-a-revamped-explore-observations-search-page/8439 "2026-10-01T16:16:07Z")
The Explore page (www.inaturalist.org/observations), sometimes called “observations search” or “obs search”, was written in code which is older and now out of sync than newer parts of the site such as Identify and observ… --- ## [Western Cape recommendations - Naturalist road-trip in September](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/western-cape-recommendations-naturalist-road-trip-in-september/42086)
**Author:** [@tkoffel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tkoffel)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/western-cape-recommendations-naturalist-road-trip-in-september/42086 "2023-06-01T17:36:13Z")
Hello everyone, My wife and I will have the chance to be in the Cape Town region for the second half of September this fall and plan on going for a 10-day road trip to discover its naturalistic wonders. It will basicall… --- ## [Coyotes Declining in My Area](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/coyotes-declining-in-my-area/41685)
**Author:** [@giannamaria](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/giannamaria)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/coyotes-declining-in-my-area/41685 "2023-05-14T17:45:54Z")
I am writing this because I haven’t seen any signs of coyotes in ages. In the area where I live, there used to be coyotes all over the place. However, I haven’t been noticing coyotes in the past few years. I am concer… --- ## [AI-applications in wildlife preservation](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ai-applications-in-wildlife-preservation/33985)
**Author:** [@stekkelpak](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/stekkelpak)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ai-applications-in-wildlife-preservation/33985 "2022-07-31T01:49:42Z")
Coming across this article and more recently learning about how Deepmind’s Alphafold AI helps accelerating drug discovery got me thinking about all the different ways artificial intelligence can further help saving speci… --- ## [Moderation Notes Functionality?](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/moderation-notes-functionality/8798)
**Author:** [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/moderation-notes-functionality/8798 "2022-02-12T05:11:12Z")
Something that’s been requested, and that I’m in favor of, is creating some sort of “moderation notes” page for each user. This would only be accessible by curators, and curators would be able to write down any actions t… --- ## [Wildlife Conservation](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wildlife-conservation/22390)
**Author:** [@oceanflower97](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/oceanflower97)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wildlife-conservation/22390 "2021-04-28T05:07:13Z")
Hello Everybody, I have recently started a conservation project in my village and I would be really grateful for any words of wisdom or helpful ideas. Over the past year I have been documenting all the species in my vi… --- ## [What's your favorite Animal/Insect color morphs?](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/whats-your-favorite-animal-insect-color-morphs/18363)
**Author:** [@blastcat](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/blastcat)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/whats-your-favorite-animal-insect-color-morphs/18363 "2020-11-27T22:56:49Z")
My favorites are orange isopod morphs. --- ## [If organisms had theme songs](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/if-organisms-had-theme-songs/17025)
**Author:** [@haemocyanin11](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/haemocyanin11)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/if-organisms-had-theme-songs/17025 "2020-11-14T23:24:23Z")
Maybe I am have too much time to think about things since I am staying inside most of the time now, but I saw a small moth in my bathroom yesterday. It was very small, maybe four or five millimeters long, and it had silv… --- ## [Replicate the ability to go to another page to the top of the Edit Page ](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/replicate-the-ability-to-go-to-another-page-to-the-top-of-the-edit-page/13311)
**Author:** [@phototime](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phototime)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/replicate-the-ability-to-go-to-another-page-to-the-top-of-the-edit-page/13311 "2020-08-12T22:45:39Z")
Replicate the ability to go to another page to the top of the Edit Page as you have done at the bottom of the page. Examples of this is Bugguide’s Image page for a species also Moth Photographers Group has the ability t… --- ## [Troubleshooting species complexes](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/troubleshooting-species-complexes/13252)
**Author:** [@stu\_crawford](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/stu_crawford)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/troubleshooting-species-complexes/13252 "2020-06-24T18:06:01Z")
A few thoughts for refining the new Species Complex taxon. I think that species complexes should be given a unique name that is different from the name of the species that they are named after. As an example, currently… --- ## [Audio Observation Workflow](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/audio-observation-workflow/11930)
**Author:** [@taitsougstad](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/taitsougstad)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/audio-observation-workflow/11930 "2020-05-01T03:31:21Z")
At time or writing, of the 36M observations in iNat, only 61K have audio. That is only .1%. I would like some help tracing audio observation workflows to their simplest and most accessible. Recent updates have streamlin… --- ## [Finding inaccurate coordinates](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-inaccurate-coordinates/11856)
**Author:** [@mazancourt](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mazancourt)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-inaccurate-coordinates/11856 "2020-04-30T08:49:49Z")
Hi! Lately, I have been curating quite a lot of observations that had an obviously wrong location, such as plants or insects in the middle of the ocean. For example, observations supposed to be in Central America end up… --- ## [Metric for irreplaceable contributions to a project](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/metric-for-irreplaceable-contributions-to-a-project/10993)
**Author:** [@pete\_woods](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pete_woods)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/metric-for-irreplaceable-contributions-to-a-project/10993 "2020-03-25T22:01:07Z")
We often call attention to the person who contributes the most observations to a project, or the most species, and these stats are built into projects. But there is no easy way to identify the person who found the specie… --- ## [Ideas for "Your Recent Projects"](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-your-recent-projects/1012)
**Author:** [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-your-recent-projects/1012 "2020-03-23T14:05:32Z")
Currently, if you click on the Community menu, you will see a “Your Recent Projects” section, eg: As many have noted, this often displays a fairly useless list of projects because it’s showing projects that you have m…