Check-in schedules are automated reminders that prompt you to engage with specific connections at regular intervals. Instead of relying on memory or hoping the LinkedIn algorithm shows you the right people, Lime’s check-in schedules ensure you’re building relationships with strategically important connections.
The schedule determines how often Lime reminds you to check a connection’s LinkedIn activity - daily, every three days, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, or never. This systematic approach prevents important relationships from being neglected while avoiding over-engagement with lower-priority connections.
Check-in schedules are the engine that builds Citizen Scores consistently. Regular engagement (commenting on posts, sending DMs, having conversations) increases relationship strength, but only if you remember to engage.
Why Check-In Schedules Matter
Prevent relationship neglect
Without schedules, you engage with whoever LinkedIn’s algorithm surfaces or whoever you happen to remember. Important connections fall through the cracks - the potential client who posts weekly but never appears in your feed, the referral partner you meant to check in with but forgot. Schedules ensure no strategically important person is accidentally ignored.
Build Citizen Scores systematically
Relationships strengthen through consistent, repeated interactions over time. Check-in schedules create that consistency. A connection scheduled for daily check-ins receives far more engagement than someone on a monthly schedule, building a stronger relationship (higher Citizen Score) faster. Schedules let you deliberately accelerate priority relationships while maintaining others at slower paces.
Optimize limited time
You can’t engage deeply with everyone daily. Check-in schedules force strategic choices: Who deserves daily attention? Who’s important enough for weekly engagement? Who can be maintained with monthly or quarterly check-ins? This prioritization ensures your limited LinkedIn time goes to the highest-value relationships.
Create predictable workflow
Instead of wondering “who should I engage with today?”, check-in schedules provide a daily task list. Open Lime, see who’s due for check-ins today, review their recent activity, comment or DM as appropriate. This predictability makes relationship building a manageable daily habit rather than an overwhelming occasional effort.
Match engagement to strategic importance, not posting frequency
Don’t let posting frequency dictate engagement. A strategically critical connection who posts weekly deserves more attention than an unimportant connection who posts daily. Check-in schedules let you decide engagement based on relationship value, not content volume.
Adjust strategy over time
Relationships aren’t static. Start a new high-priority prospect on daily check-ins to build your Citizen Score quickly. Once the relationship is established (high Citizen Score), reduce to weekly or monthly maintenance. Schedules can be changed any time to reflect evolving strategic importance.
Maintain relationships at scale
Manually remembering to engage with even 20 important connections is difficult. With check-in schedules, you can systematically maintain 50, 100, or more strategic relationships - each receiving appropriate attention based on importance.
Check-In Schedule Options
Daily
Lime reminds you to check this connection’s activity every day.
Who to use it for:
- Active deals or negotiations requiring close attention
- High-priority prospects you’re actively courting
- Key influencers whose content provides daily engagement opportunities
- Connections whose posts help you stay consistent on LinkedIn (because you like them)
- Anyone strategically critical to current business goals
Daily schedules build Citizen Scores fastest but require significant time investment. Reserve for truly important connections (5-10 people at most).
Every Three Days
Lime reminds you to check this connection’s activity every three days.
Who to use it for:
- Important prospects you want as clients soon
- Strong supporters who consistently engage with your content
- Potential partnership opportunities worth developing
- Connections in active relationship-building phase
Three-day schedules balance frequent engagement with manageable time commitment. Good for connections who are important but don’t quite merit daily attention (typically 20-50 people).
Once a Week
Lime reminds you to check this connection’s activity once per week.
Who to use it for:
- Established relationships that don’t need intensive maintenance
- Connections who post less frequently
- Lower-priority prospects or partners
- People who are friendly and valuable but not critical to immediate strategy
Weekly schedules maintain relationships without demanding much time. Suitable for the bulk of strategically relevant connections (typically 30-50 people depending on network size).
Every Two Weeks
Lime reminds you to check this connection’s activity every two weeks.
Who to use it for:
- Connections who post sporadically
- Relationships you’re intentionally slowing down after building a strong Citizen Score
- Secondary-tier strategic connections
- People worth maintaining contact with but not actively pursuing
Bi-weekly schedules provide light maintenance. Use for connections transitioning from active building to passive maintenance phase.
Once a Month
Lime reminds you to check this connection’s activity once per month.
Who to use it for:
- Low strategic priority but still worth occasional presence
- Connections outside your primary industry or target market
- People who are friendly but not business-critical
- Strong relationships requiring minimal maintenance (already have a high Citizen Score)
Monthly schedules keep you visible without significant time investment. Suitable for peripheral connections who might become relevant later, or existing strong relationships needing only occasional touchpoints.
Every Quarter
Lime reminds you to check this connection’s activity every three months.
Who to use it for:
- Former colleagues or connections from past roles who post rarely
- Connections whose content is difficult to engage with but you want to maintain some presence
- Very low-priority relationships worth keeping visible minimally
- People you might need someday but who aren’t currently strategic
Quarterly schedules provide bare-minimum relationship maintenance. These connections receive just enough engagement to remain aware of you without demanding regular attention.
Never - Profile is Inactive
No reminders. This connection won’t appear in check-in lists.
Who to use it for:
- Irrelevant connections you don’t want in searches or reports
- Inactive or deleted LinkedIn profiles
“Never” status effectively hides connections from active workflows without deleting them from Lime. They remain in your database and can be reactivated later if circumstances change.
Don’t Remind Me
Similar to “Never” but without the “profile is inactive” designation. No check-in reminders, but the connection remains visible in searches and reports.
Who to use it for:
- Connections you engage with organically without needing reminders
- People whose posts you naturally see in your LinkedIn feed
- Connections you track for other purposes (analytics, history) without active engagement strategy
How to Set Check-In Schedules
For Individual Connections
From Card View:
- Go to Connections > Card View
- Click a connection’s name to open their contact card
- Click Change check-in schedule in the Lime Actions section
- Select the desired frequency (Daily, Every three days, Once a week, etc.)
- The schedule saves immediately
The new schedule takes effect immediately - if you set someone to daily check-ins, they’ll appear in today’s check-in list if they haven’t been checked yet today.
From Kanban View:
- Go to Connections > Kanban View
- Click a connection card
- Follow the same steps as Card View above
Check-In Schedule Strategy
Start intensive, then reduce
When building new relationships, set check-in schedules to Daily or Every three days. Engage consistently until your Citizen Score reaches 70+, then reduce to Weekly or Monthly maintenance. This approach builds strong relationships quickly, then frees up time for new relationship building.
Match schedules to goals
Different strategic goals require different engagement patterns:
- Active sales pursuit: Daily or every three days for hot prospects. Weekly for warm leads. Monthly for cold prospects being nurtured long-term.
- Partnership development: Every three days or weekly during active discussion phases. Monthly once partnerships are established and running smoothly.
- Thought leadership building: Daily or every three days for key influencers you want to build relationships with. Weekly for general industry connections who amplify your content.
- Network maintenance: Monthly or quarterly for most important connections. Weekly for true friends or strong advocates who deserve continued attention.
Review schedules regularly
Every month or quarter, audit your check-in schedules:
- Are daily check-ins producing results (growing Citizen Scores) or wasting time (no response, low engagement)?
- Have any weekly connections become more strategically important and deserve daily attention?
- Can any established relationships (high Citizen Scores) be moved to less frequent schedules to make room for new prospects?
Consider capacity
Daily check-ins require 2-5 minutes per connection (reading, commenting thoughtfully). If you have 20 people on daily schedules, that’s 40 minutes daily. Be realistic about how many daily check-ins you can maintain:
10-20 daily: Manageable for most professionals (20-40 minutes daily)
30-40 every three days: Adds another 60-80 minutes every three days
50 weekly: Requires 2 hours weekly, spread across the week
Adjust your schedule distribution to fit available time. Quality engagement with fewer connections beats superficial engagement with many.
Use schedules for accountability
Check-in schedules create visible tasks. If you aren’t completing daily check-ins regularly, you have too many daily connections - reduce some to every three days or weekly. If weekly check-ins feel too infrequent for important connections, increase them to every three days. Let your actual behavior inform schedule adjustments.
Align schedules with Citizen Score targets
If a connection needs Citizen Score 70+ before you make an ask (pitch, referral request, meeting invitation), calculate backward: How much time do you have? What engagement frequency will build the score in that timeframe? Set your check-in schedule accordingly.
Don’t let the algorithm dictate engagement
LinkedIn’s algorithm shows you content it thinks you’ll engage with, which creates echo chambers. Check-in schedules override this - ensuring you see content from strategically important connections even if the algorithm doesn’t surface them. This is crucial for building diverse, strategic relationships, rather than only engaging with people similar to you.
Working with Check-In Lists
Viewing daily check-ins
Lime shows connections due for check-ins this week in the ‘The Week(s) Ahead’ view. This becomes your daily LinkedIn engagement workflow:
- Open Lime and go to The Week(s) Ahead
- See all connections due today (daily schedules) or overdue (missed previous check-ins)
- Click Activity for each connection (their contact card will automatically open), or click their name then Activity to view their recent LinkedIn activity
- Comment on recent posts, send DM if appropriate, or reset your check-in reminders (click the three dots next to the number in the green box and choose how long to snooze for) if they haven’t posted
- Move to next connection
Find out more about logging engagement.
This systematic approach ensures consistent engagement with strategic connections.
Managing overdue check-ins
If you miss days, check-ins accumulate as overdue. Options:
- Work through them all to catch up (time-consuming but maintains consistency)
- ‘Snooze’ your check in for connections individually (resets the schedule but doesn’t build Citizen Score)
- Go to Menu (three dots) > Settings > select Reset all check-in dates from today > Delete & Reset Find out more
- Reduce some schedules (daily → every three days) to make future lists more manageable
Be honest about capacity - accumulating dozens of overdue check-ins signals schedules need adjustment.
Batch processing check-ins
Some users prefer batching: dedicate 30-60 minutes daily to work through their check-in list systematically. Others spread check-ins throughout the day during breaks. Find the workflow that makes consistent engagement sustainable for you.
Hint: If you comment on 5-6 other people’s LinkedIn posts before you post yours (or before it’s scheduled to post) and 5-6 afterwards, you’ll get more impressions.
Check-In Schedule Best Practices
It’s OK to set schedules just because you like someone’s posts: Not everything has to be about sales or strategy - some people just make you want to be on LinkedIn.
Be honest about the time you have available: Don’t set 50 people to daily check-ins unless you genuinely have 3-5 hours daily for LinkedIn engagement.
Prioritize ruthlessly: Only strategically critical connections deserve daily schedules. Be willing to reduce or remove connections from check-ins if they’re not responsive or no longer strategic.
Review and adjust regularly: Schedules should evolve as relationships develop and strategy changes. What worked last quarter might not work this quarter.
Use schedules as experimental: Try daily check-ins with a new high-priority connection for two weeks. If the relationship grows and engagement is reciprocated, continue. If not, reduce schedule or remove entirely.
Don’t punish yourself for missed check-ins: Life happens. If you miss check-ins, adjust schedules to prevent future overwhelm rather than feeling guilty about past misses.
Combine with other Lime features: Check-in schedules work best alongside tags (identify which types of connections deserve which schedules), Citizen Scores (adjust schedules based on relationship strength), and dated reminders (for one-time specific engagement needs beyond regular check-ins).
Track what works: After 3-6 months, analyze which engagement frequencies correlate with relationship development and business results. Double down on what works, eliminate what doesn’t.
