Not now, parking, and dismissing cards

What this article covers

Every card in the Feed offers three ways forward: act on it, set it aside for now, or ignore it for good. This article covers the two "set aside" and "ignore" paths in detail: what each button is called depending on the card type, what "parking" actually does behind the scenes (the reason picker and the resurface logic it sets up), what the skip-step confirmation on an Action Plan card looks like, and the short undo window every one of these actions gives you before the card disappears for real. For the third path, acting on a card, see the Feed and acting on decisions.

Where to find it

Open Feed from the sidebar (/feed). Every card shows the same row of buttons along the bottom: Act on the left, a middle button whose label changes with the card type, and Ignore (sometimes labeled differently) on the right. This article is about the middle and right buttons.

The three-button layout

Cards render in a grid grid-cols-3 row at the bottom: primary action, a middle "set aside" button, and a dismiss button. The exact wording depends on the card type:

| Card type | Left (Act) | Middle | Right | |---|---|---|---| | Decision / Decisions (bundle) | Act / Review N | Not Now | Ignore | | Action Plan | Do it | Not now | Skip step | | Win (a completed plan) | Add detail | Not now | Ignore | | Your Agent (agent message) | Reply | Later | Ignore | | Insight, Advisory, Weather, Progress, Network | Review / View / Prepare | Not Now / Noted | Ignore | | Video / Podcast | Watch / Listen | Add to playlist | Ignore | | Article / Vendor News | Read | Add to reading list | Ignore |

The middle button is never the same action twice: on a decision it parks the card (with a reason), on an Action Plan it snoozes the plan's next step for a day, on an agent message it just marks it read for later, and on content (articles, videos, podcasts) it saves the item to a list instead of parking it (see saving and lists for that path). Only decisions, decision bundles, action plans, and wins actually go through the park flow described below.

Not now on a decision: the park-reason picker

Tap Not Now on a Decision card, a bundled Decisions card, an Action Plan card, or a Win card, and a small panel opens in place, right above the button row, asking "Why not now?" Four choices appear as pill buttons:

• Too busy
• Need more info
• Not convinced
• Other

Tap one and the card parks immediately, there is no second confirmation step. Picking a reason isn't just bookkeeping: it's stored on the signal (park_reason) alongside a running park count, and it's meant to shape how and when Verinode brings the item back. Today only the count matters for timing (see below); the individual reason is captured for future refinement of when a parked card should resurface, but doesn't yet change the resurfacing logic itself.

If you tap Not now on a bundled Decisions card (the "Review N" card that collapses several signals), every signal in the bundle gets parked with the same reason, not just the first one. You won't see the other N-1 signals reappear separately.

What happens after you park a card

Parking a decision does three things in the background:

1. The signal's status flips to "parked" and the card leaves your feed.
2. A park count increments. Each time you park the same underlying decision again, this count goes up.
3. Resurface conditions get registered. These decide when, if ever, the card comes back on its own.

The time-based resurface schedule

The first three times you park a given decision, it comes back on a fixed clock: the 1st park brings it back after about a week, the 2nd park after about two weeks, and the 3rd after about a month. Each re-park resets which point in that schedule you're on, so parking the same thing again after it resurfaces starts the next stage of the clock rather than the same one over.

Once you've parked the same decision a fourth time, the time-based clock stops. Verinode will not nag you with the same reminder on a fixed schedule again. Past that point, the only way the card comes back is if something in your business actually changes:

• A related signal fires. If a new signal shows up in the same business area (and, when relevant, tied to the same client, vendor, or piece of equipment) after you parked this one, the parked decision resurfaces, because whatever you parked is now more likely to be relevant again.
• A vendor contract renewal approaches. If the parked decision is about a vendor relationship with a renewal date on file, it resurfaces roughly a month before that contract locks into another term, since that's the point a renegotiate-or-switch decision is most actionable.
• A benchmark you're being compared against crosses back. If the parked decision was a peer-comparison finding (you were on the wrong side of a benchmark line), it resurfaces once your own current number crosses back to the favorable side of that line. This is the one case a fixed schedule can't catch: once the underlying metric improves, nothing else would ever tell you it happened.

You'll never see more than one of these conditions listed on the card, whichever one fires first is the one that brings it back, and the reason for the reminder always ties to something concrete that changed, never a repeat of the same nag on a timer. When a parked decision does resurface, its card carries a small Resurfaced badge in the top-right corner so you know it's not new, it's something you set aside earlier.

Ignore

Ignore (or Skip step on Action Plan cards) is the harder stop. Unlike parking, ignoring doesn't set up any resurface condition, the item is done. On a decision, ignoring:

• Records a dismissed interaction against the signal.
• For a bundled Decisions card, dismisses every signal in the bundle, not just the visible one.
• Shows a brief "Dismissed" confirmation with an Undo link, then the card disappears for good once the window closes.

On content cards (articles, videos, podcasts, vendor news, events), Ignore also logs what kind of content and topic tags you dismissed, purely so Verinode's content curation can learn what's not useful to you, no operator business data leaves your account for this.

Skip step, on Action Plan cards

Action Plan cards represent a step inside a plan you already committed to, not a standalone decision, so dismissing one needs an extra beat. Tap Skip step and a confirmation panel opens asking "Skip this step?" with two choices:

• Just this step marks only the current step as skipped and moves the plan on to its next step. The plan itself stays open.
• Open the plan does nothing to the step, it takes you straight to the plan's full workspace at /decisions/[id] so you can manage, reorder, or close the whole plan from there instead of skipping blind from the feed.

Closing out an entire plan is deliberately not available from this confirmation, that decision belongs on the plan's own workspace, where the outcome and your feedback get captured. See the decision workspace for that surface.

The undo window

Every one of these actions, park, ignore, skip step, is reversible for a short window right after you take it. Instead of vanishing instantly, the card swaps to a small confirmation state with an Undo link:

• Dismissed cards show "Dismissed" with Undo, and stay visible for about 5 seconds before they clear.
• Parked cards show "Parked" with the line "This will resurface later" and an Undo link, visible for about 2.5 seconds.
• Noted (the middle-button state on non-decision cards, or Later on agent messages) shows "Noted" with Undo, for about 2.5 seconds.

Tap Undo any time before the window closes and the card comes right back: for a parked or dismissed decision, its status resets to new (as if it had never been touched), and it reappears in your feed on the next load. For a content item, the underlying interaction record is simply deleted.

If the window closes before you catch it, the action is final and Undo is no longer offered. On a decision, that means going into the Decision Workspace or Decisions directly to find and re-open it if you change your mind.

Best-practice example

You're reviewing your morning feed and a Decision card reads "Vendor X's rate is 12% above your peer group" with an Act / Not Now / Ignore row. You're mid-job and don't have bandwidth to renegotiate today, so you tap Not Now, then pick Too busy from the reason picker. The card disappears with a brief "Parked, this will resurface later" confirmation. Because this is a peer-comparison finding, Verinode registers a benchmark-crossing watch on it in addition to the standard one-week clock: if your rate with that vendor improves back below the peer line before the week is up, the card would resurface early with the improvement as the reason, not the clock. If nothing changes, it comes back in about a week regardless, carrying the Resurfaced badge so you recognize it. If you decide the finding genuinely doesn't apply, for instance you've already got a signed rate lock, Ignore instead: it clears for good and won't reappear on any schedule.

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