How nudges work · Corner help

The card in the corner

When a deal is waiting on you, Corner puts one card in the bottom-right corner of your screen. It tells you who, why and how long:

Your move10h 12m

Reply owed: Dana Whitfield

They wrote 10 hours ago: “Can you do 20 seats at the annual rate?”

Northwind Logistics / Proposal

Made-up example. The band says whose move it is, the clock says for how long.

Under the reason are the actions:

Open chat brings up the main window on that conversation with the composer ready. From any app, Ctrl+Alt+N / ⌘⌥N does the same.
Snooze: 1 hour, Tomorrow or Next week.
Done: you followed up some other way, like a call.
Dead: the deal is over.
The … menu has Not a deal, for a chat that should never have been tracked.

One card at a time. A +3 next to the clock means three more are waiting; they're all on Today, most urgent first.

The five reasons

Every card has exactly one reason, and the reason is always written on it.

The card says	Because	After (default)
Your move Reply owed: Dana	They wrote and you haven't answered.	24 hours. 8 hours at Proposal and Negotiation.
Their move Follow up with Marco	You wrote and they've gone quiet.	3 days. 4 at Qualified, 2 at Proposal and Negotiation.
Promise due You promised Aiko: …	Something you promised in the chat is past its due time.	At the due time.
Going quiet Lena is going cold	Nobody owes anybody a message, and nothing has happened.	14 days.
Wrote back Omar wrote back	A deal you marked dead or lost got a new message.	Right away, once per time you killed it.

Whose move is it? If the AI has read the latest message, its call counts, so a “thanks!” doesn't leave you owing a reply. Otherwise it's whoever wrote last. Promises come from the AI reading the chat (“I'll send the contract Monday”) or from ones you add yourself in the deal panel.

When several deals are waiting, promises come first, then replies owed and deals that wrote back, then chases, then deals going quiet. Later stages and longer waits move a deal up.

How a nudge clears

Write to them. From Corner or straight from Telegram on any device: the reply owed, chase, going-quiet or wrote-back nudge clears itself. No bookkeeping.
Promises need a tick. Any old message doesn't count as keeping a promise. Tick the promise in the deal panel's Commitments when it's done.
Done marks it handled and restarts the clock. The deal is now waiting on them, so if they go quiet you'll get a chase later.
Dead closes the deal and clears all its nudges. If they write again, you get a Wrote back card.
Not a deal takes the chat out of your pipeline for good. It's never nudged again.

A cleared nudge only comes back with something new: a new message, or a new touch from you that ages past the threshold again.

When cards appear

Working hours. Cards only appear on your working days and hours, Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 19:00 unless you change it, in your own time zone. Outside them nudges wait on Today.
Quiet hours. Windows with no cards, even inside working hours: lunch, your call block. A window can cross midnight.
Daily cap. At most 15 new cards a day by default. The rest wait for tomorrow, most urgent first.
Breathing room. After a card goes away, the next one waits at least 20 minutes.

How hard it pushes

Pick one in the setup or under Settings > Nudges > Accountability. You can switch any time.

Gentle: No pop-up card. The tray icon shows how many follow-ups are waiting, and when something is, one digest card appears each working day at the start of your hours. It opens Today.
Standard (default): One card at a time. It hides after 30 seconds; a thin bar runs down the time and pauses while your mouse is on the card. If you don't act, the card comes back after 4 hours, up to 3 times a day. After that it's a count on the tray icon until tomorrow.
Relentless: The card stays until you act on it, and comes back every hour. New cards still wait for your working hours.

A card that comes back turns orange and says so: “Second time today.” That's Corner being on your side, not angry.

Snooze

Snooze from the card, from Today (S) or in a sprint (Alt+S / ⌥S):

1 hour: an hour from now.
Tomorrow: tomorrow at the start of your working hours.
Next week: next Monday at the start of your working hours.

The card folds away and a one-line receipt confirms it, like “Snoozed until tomorrow.” Snoozed follow-ups sit at the bottom of Today until they're due.

Pause everything

Presenting, on a call, or just need an hour? Open the tray menu (menu bar on a Mac) and choose Pause nudges > For 1 hour or Until tomorrow. The tray icon shows a pause sign, and the same menu has Resume nudges. A pause survives a restart.

Corner doesn't notice screen sharing by itself yet, so pause before you share. Coming A setting that keeps the card out of screen shares and recordings, and Pause for 1 hour right on the card.

Undo

On Suggested and in the first-run review, U undoes your last Track or Ignore.

Coming Undo for Done, Dead, Not a deal and Snooze, from the card, Today and sprint. Until then, a deal you marked won, lost or dead can be reopened from its deal panel with Reopen, and a snoozed follow-up is still on Today.

Tune it

Everything above lives under Settings > Nudges and applies the moment you change it:

Accountability level, working days and hours, quiet hours, the daily cap.
An optional daily sprint time. See Sprint mode.
How long a deal waits before you're nudged, per stage: replies in hours (1 hour to 14 days), chases in days (up to 30). Reset to defaults puts them back.

Nagged about a chat that isn't a deal? Press Not a deal. Nagged about one that is, but slow? Raise its stage's chase time. Too much overall? Try Gentle for a week.