Your dashboard next steps: where they come from

What can appear, and why

• •A coach messaged you and has not had a reply — the most time-sensitive thing in recruiting.
• •An invitation you have not answered whose registration closes soon, by default within the next two weeks.
• •A school on your list that nobody has contacted yet.
• •A follow-up that is due AND has something new to say — new film, a new result, a schedule change.
• •Nothing added to your profile for a while, by default about two months.
• •Profile gaps that make your emails weaker, like no film or an unpublished profile.

Why it will not tell you to "just follow up"

A follow-up whose entire content is that you sent an email is the kind coaches describe deleting, so Skoutd will not suggest one. If enough time has passed and there is genuinely nothing new to say, the honest advice is not "write again" — it is that you have nothing to write about, which is a problem you can actually fix. That is why "nothing new on your profile in a while" is a step in its own right.

Every step is a link

A step about a person opens that program with the thread already filtered to them. A step about a deadline opens that event. A step about an untouched school opens that program. You should never have to go and find the thing the advice was about.

Waving one off

Not this one? Dismiss it. It is remembered as advice rather than as a line of text, so re-wording it overnight will not bring it back — but if the same coach contacts you again, it returns, because that is new information. Steps with no particular moment behind them come back after about a month. Nothing is lost: you can restore a dismissed step immediately.