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# Cadence and quiet hours

> Turning proactive messages on or off, choosing how often, and keeping them out of hours.

Everything about whether and how Abbie reaches out first is under your control.

## Turning it off entirely

A single switch, **Let Abbie start conversations**, turns off check-ins, follow-ups on parked work, and suggestions all at once. She'll still answer normally whenever you talk to her; she just won't message you first. This is available both as a quick toggle on the [Abbie home page](/abbie/getting-started/abbie-home) and in full in her settings.

## Choosing what she can reach out about

If proactive messages are on, you can still switch off any one category independently: check-ins, follow-ups, or suggestions, without affecting the other two.

## How often

Check-in frequency and the default follow-up window both have sensible presets (for example, weekly check-ins and a couple of days' grace before a follow-up), with a custom option if you want something different. See the [Outreach tab reference](/abbie/configuring/outreach-settings) for the exact controls.

## Snoozing

You can snooze check-ins until a specific date, and snooze the follow-up on an individual backlog item, without switching the whole feature off. Any active snooze is shown and can be cleared at any time from the Outreach settings tab.

## Quiet hours

Separately from Abbie's own cadence settings, your notification preferences let you set quiet hours: a window of the day during which nothing pings you, Abbie included. This is a general notification setting, not specific to Abbie, but it applies to how her proactive messages reach you the same as any other notification.