Using Projects
Save Field Chronicle project filters over outings, species, sightings, notes, maps, and photos for ongoing wildlife study.
Field Chronicle isn’t trying to be “another photo gallery”—it’s trying to be the operating system for your time in the field.
A project is a living collection—a saved wildlife-study filter, not an album and not another outing. It gathers the outings, species, sightings, notes, map context, and photographs that match a question you keep returning to.
Wintering raptors on the estuary
Harriers, kestrels, and osprey across marsh outings.
Macro season
Close work with the short glass — insects and flora.
Select a project to open its workspace.
Projects are saved study filters — named questions, not albums. Pick one from the list to reopen the lens.
Define the scope once
Create a project around a place, a taxon, a lens, or a season. Empty species selection can include every species sighted inside the scope so a site study stays complete. Name the project after the question—“wintering raptors on the estuary,” “macro season,” “kingfishers 2026”—not after a single day.
Work in one workspace
The project workspace shows sightings, map, and photos for that filter. Selecting a species tightens the view. Use it for planning the next visit or for writing up what you already have. The underlying outings stay in the Field Journal; the project is the lens that stays current as you log more days.
Why projects pay off
Repeating the same filters every session wastes attention. A saved project keeps a study warm: one raptor group across many outings, everything shot with a macro, a wetland year. Photographers use this instead of static folders. Researchers-in-spirit use it for multi-year site work. Casual walkers can skip projects entirely.
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