History#

0.8.0 (Unreleased)#

UI:

  • Add tab for basic observation details

  • When an observation is selected, show a summary of basic observation details on main screen

  • Display observation count and leaf taxon count on taxon info cards

  • Add support for displaying and searching common names in any language supported by iNaturalist.org

    • Uses the locale setting from settings menu

    • The packaged taxon DB only contains english names, but a full version can be downloaded here

  • Add dialog to prompt for username on first startup

CLI:

  • Split CLI into subcommands:

    • tag: Main tagging features

    • refresh: Refresh tags for previously tagged images

    • install: install shell completion + taxonomy database

  • Add 3 verbosity levels (nt -v[vv])

  • Update nt tag -p to accept directories and glob patterns

  • Add support for alternate XMP sidecar path format, if it already exists

  • Support selecting a sidecar file directly (instead of via an associated image file)

  • Support selecting any file type with an associated sidecar (e.g., for RAW image files)

    • Works with individual paths or glob patterns, but not for directories

Metadata:

  • Add support for GPS positional accuracy

  • Add support for alternate XMP sidecar path format, if it already exists (basename.ext.xmp instead of basename.xmp)

  • In refresh mode, check for taxonomy changes and update tags with the new taxon (1:1 changes only)

Database:

  • Include data for most commonly observed taxa with PyInstaller packages and platform-specific installers

  • Pre-compute ancestor IDs, child IDs, iconic taxon, observation count, and leaf taxon count based on RG observations from GBIF export

  • Preserve photo order when loading observations from db

  • When updating taxon record from API, don’t overwrite pre-computed stats with null values

  • Add menu button to reset database (Tools > Reset database)

0.7.0 (2022-07-29)#

  • Rebuilt UI from scratch using Qt

  • Build local taxon and observation database for partial online access and better performance

  • Build local taxon text search database for fully offline (and much faster) taxon autocomplete

  • Add CLI taxon autocomplete search

  • Add fullscreen image viewer

  • Add full bi-directional conversion between iNat API results and Darwin Core XMP metadata

  • Add recent and favorite image directories

  • Build Windows installer, macOS .dmg, and PyInstaller artifacts for all platforms

  • Add GPS metadata

  • Many performance improvements, bugfixes, etc.

0.6.0 (2021-06-16)#

  • Improved image drag-and-drop, and support recursively adding images from subdirectories

  • Initial packaging with PyInstaller

  • Add tab for user-observed taxa

  • CLI improvements and options

  • Add more data models and move these to pyinaturalist

  • Add caching improvements and merge into requests-cache

  • Add progress bar for loading taxon data and images

  • Multithreading for better performance with loading taxon data and images

  • Update to Kivy 2

  • Improvements for docs, CI/project config, bugfixes, etc.

0.5.0 (2020-06-03)#

  • Add a full taxon search with filters and search results tab

  • Add tabs for recently viewed, frequently, viewed, and favorite taxa

  • Add context menus for local images

  • Add keyboard shortcuts

  • Add a thumbnail atlas

  • Add a Taxon data model

  • Performance improvements, bugfixes, etc.

0.4.0 (2020-05-25)#

  • Add scrollable list of taxon children and ancestors

  • Add caching for API requests and thumbnails

  • UI cleanup, bugfixes, docs

0.3.0 (2020-05-24)#

  • Add a taxon info display

  • Add a basic taxon name search with autocomplete

0.2.0 (2020-05-19)#

  • Add a basic GUI made with Kivy

0.1.0 (2020-05-14)#

  • Initial release; CLI tool with basic tagging functionality