Catch-ups

Catch-ups is about the people you've built real history with, meetings and email threads, who haven't heard from you in a while. NetworkOS suggests a few at a time; you decide.

Good relationships rarely end. They just go quiet. Catch-ups keeps that from happening without turning your network into a to-do list: accept a suggestion, review a short sequence written in your voice, and send it from your own inbox.

Every day, NetworkOS looks for people you have real history with, at least a couple of meetings or a genuine back-and-forth over email, whose last touchpoint on any channel was more than a month ago. Each suggestion comes with a one-line reason so you can see the history at a glance.

A few rules keep it calm:

• Never more than five at a time. Catch-ups is a short list, not a backlog. The one exception is a LinkedIn refresh: the congratulations it drafts go on the list even when five are already open, and the daily suggestions stay quiet until you have worked through them.
• Dismiss pauses that person for 60 days. They won't come back sooner.
• "Don't suggest again" is permanent. It lives behind the three-dot menu on each suggestion.
• Ignored suggestions expire. If you leave one untouched for three weeks, it quietly goes away.

When your calendar looks light in the weeks ahead, the card says so. A quiet stretch is a good window to reconnect.

A new job is the easiest reason to get back in touch, and it is the one thing your inbox never tells you about. NetworkOS reads it from LinkedIn instead. Every LinkedIn import, whether you run the Chrome extension, upload a connections CSV, or upload the full data ZIP, remembers the title and company LinkedIn last reported for each connection and compares the next import against it.

When an import finds changes, the people you have actually met or exchanged email with, and who have an email address on file, turn into catch-up suggestions, up to ten of them, each flagged New role on the Catch-ups page. Their first draft opens with a congratulations instead of the usual "it's been a while", and the previous role appears on the review page so you can see what actually changed. Nothing sends on its own: you review and send the first email yourself, exactly like any other catch-up.

A LinkedIn connection you have never dealt with does not become a catch-up, however recently they moved. They still appear in the summary email below, so you see the move without being handed a note to write to someone you have never spoken to. Plenty of imports produce no suggestions at all, and that is the right answer when nobody who moved is someone you know.

You also get one email after the import, with a subject like "Priya and 11 others changed jobs". It carries a Congratulate button for each drafted suggestion and an Also changed roles list for everyone else who moved, with a link to the rest when there are a lot of them. Every contact keeps a Role history of the changes NetworkOS has seen, on the contact panel and in the edit view, with a link through to the catch-up when there is one.

Detection is LinkedIn against LinkedIn only. Edits you make by hand, and details filled in from other sources, never read as a move.

1. 1

   Open a suggestion

   Suggestions appear on your dashboard and on the Catch-ups page, each with a one-line reason. Click Start catch-up and NetworkOS writes two short notes in your voice: a hello and a gentle follow-up. Want a third? Add a second reminder on the review page.

2. 2

   Make it yours

   Edit either email, set how many days later the reminder goes out, or regenerate the drafts with a note like 'mention their fundraise' or 'keep it shorter'. Changes save on their own, and nothing sends while you edit.

3. 3

   Send the first email yourself

   The first email only goes out when you click Send. It sends from your own Gmail, so the reply lands in your inbox like any other email.

4. 4

   The reminders handle themselves

   If the thread stays quiet, each reminder follows in the same thread the number of days you chose after the previous email. Every send lands during your working hours, never in the middle of the night.

5. 5

   It stops the moment something happens

   A reply, a meeting, or any other new touchpoint between you stops the remaining steps on its own. You get a short email either way, with a Send anyway link if you want the rest to go out after all.

The emails themselves are plain and personal: your words, your signature, no footers or branding. They read like you wrote them, because you reviewed every line before anything sent.

Add a scheduling link under Settings → Email and the drafts weave it in so people can grab time with you directly. Leave it empty and the drafts invite them to reply with times instead. Either way works; the link just removes a round trip.

At most once a week, NetworkOS emails you a short digest of who is worth reconnecting with. It only sends when there's someone worth it; a quiet week means no email. Each person in the digest has a one-click "Not this one" link if they're not a fit right now.

Every digest has a one-click link to turn it off, and the Catch-up digest toggle in Settings → Notifications does the same. That toggle also covers the short notices you get when a sequence pauses or someone replies.

The fastest way to learn the flow is the built-in tour. Open the Getting started checklist on your dashboard and click Start your first catch-up, or add ?tour=catch-ups to your dashboard address. The tour uses a practice contact, so nothing reaches your real network and nothing sends.

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