I'd like the ability to drag & drop a group of photos into a form rather like iNaturalist does - and then fill in the names, stages & quantities under each one.
Even better if it could let me set the defaults for sex/stage and determiner etc and just populate the existing species list for that site.
The latter - yes I drag &…
The latter - yes I drag & drop when I enter each record but that's the problem - it's laborious because I need to click + to open the images box and then find each photo and then drag & drop them. I'd prefer to drag & drop the images to create the records THEN enter the data against them THEN add any records without photos. :) I take photos of 90% of the moths I trap and it just seems a lot more logical to start with the images and then fill in the metadata - then add the missing ones I wrote down but didn't photo.
I always drag and drop my pictures. But do you mean the initial step in creating a record should be loading a picture? It's appropriate for iNaturalist as the assumption there is that you don't know what it is. In iRecord the presumption is that you have a good idea, so the picture is just ancillary evidence to back it up. Note that the majority of records do not have pictures.