Field-Ready Software for the Natural World
What field-ready software means for naturalists, birders, photographers, geologists, and explorers.
Field Notes
Practical naturalist workflows, product notes, tutorials, and landscape interpretation from Nature Tools.
Field Notes explains how the apps fit into real field practice: observing species, reading places, managing photo records, planning trips, and understanding landscapes.
Latest Field Notes
A Naturalist’s Workflow for Observing Place and Species
A practical workflow for planning, observing, documenting, and organizing field records.
How to Publish iNaturalist Observations from Lightroom
How Lightroom and iNaturalist workflows connect through better observation metadata.
Why Photo Location Metadata Matters
Why coordinates are only the start of useful place metadata for natural-history photography.
Reading Landscapes After Glacial Lake Missoula
How Glacial Lake Missoula and the Ice Age floods help explain landscapes of the Northwest.