Quick Start

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Welcome!

Thank you for joining Naughtweed, and for caring enough about our shared lands and waters to act on what you see out there. Getting started takes about five minutes, and you won't need any technical background.

Your button is the simplest part of this system by design. One press logs a detection. That's it. The guide below walks you through pairing your button with your phone, right through encoding your first data point - so that when you spot something in the field, you're ready.

Once you're set up, every press you make becomes part of a shared Early Detection network - helping land managers and community scientists respond faster, together. We’re cooking on making these data actionable through a task management add-on, which we’re calling Workflow; stay tuned for that!

Glad to have you with us,

Winslow Robinson, PhD

Founder, Naughtweed

1. Accept invite

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4. Tag data

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2. Set up account

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5. Explore data

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3. Button config

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6. Build the network

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We can’t wait to see your contribution.

What makes these datasets unusual is how they were built. None of these observations were collected during dedicated field surveys or structured monitoring windows. Every data point represents a single button press — made by someone already on the move. On the way to work. Dropping a kid off at school. Taking the dog on the trails. Passing a familiar roadside patch for the hundredth time and finally having a way to say something's there.

That's the premise behind Naughtweed: that the people most likely to notice invasive pressure are the ones who already move through the landscape every day. The data doesn't require a field crew or a grant-funded survey window — it requires a button within reach and a moment of recognition. What you're looking at is what distributed, low-friction citizen detection actually looks like at scale across a region.