Request for searching comments

[LG_Price]

I would like to search my comments just like I search observations. Currently, there doesn't seem to be a way to search comments.

[Ken-ichi]

Well, if you're realy jonesing for this I added a lame version at
http://www.inaturalist.org/comments?for_me=true. It's probably pretty
slow, though.

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:05 PM, LG_Price <yhg...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would like to search my comments just like I search observations.
> Currently, there doesn't seem to be a way to search comments.
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[LG_Price]

I didn't explain very well.

There is a link in my profile page for observations on which I've made IDs.

However, when I click this link I get many pages of observations. I'd like to be able to search these observations for particular ones such as a particular species.

For example, on my project page, I can click Observations and get a list of all my observations. There is then a search window to search through just my own observations. I'd like the same search on the other page,  my identifications. Without it, I have to page through many pages to find a previous observation that I commented on or ID'd. This comes up if I decide that maybe I was wrong, or I just want to read the information in the comments.

This could also be accomplished on the main observation search if I could specify who has ID'd or commented.

Linda Gail

[Charlie Hohn]

On a related note I was just thinking it would be neat to be able to search for or pull up a map of a species and see which observations I have verified, which I have disagreed with, and which I haven't looked at yet.  Though that is complicated by the fact that I look at some and post nothing because I don't know if the ID is right or not.

[Kent McFarland]

As a visual person, I'd live a map as you describe Charlie.

Kent

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[Lynn Watson]

Cool. It works. 

[Lynn Watson]

How does one list past comments on this Google board? I looked for something that would indicate how to do it, but possibly my eyes did not pick it up. Thanks.

[Ken-ichi]

Do you mean search for past messages in the Google Group? Go to
http://groups.google.com/group/inaturalist and use the search box at
the top.

[Russell P]

Is the link for searching comments still a secret? I don't see any button to access that functionality. I had a person over in the BugGuide forum complain that they couldn't find a comment that they had made and I shared this link with them. Would be nice if there was a button so that we wouldn't have to share the secret link.

-Russell

[Russell P]

Linda was asking for a way to search though her "identifications". I'd like this feature also--and have posted elsewhere:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/inaturalist/sw6w5ESnIf8

Any chance that this feature is coming?

-Russell

[Star Donovan]

I had a similar use-case as Linda described (see comments here:  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6847562/ )

If I'd been able to search my IDs, I wouldn't have waited 5 months to correct a Data Quality entry I'd made. 
Even then, I was only able to correct it when another user called my username in the thread (I'd given up on locating it on my own after a few weeks).