It's important to keep you opportunities organized in your Tracker, which means it's important to understand the difference between removing an opportunity from your Tracker and marking it as "Abandoned".

The biggest difference between removing from your Tracker completely vs. marking it as "Abandoned" is whether you want to continue receiving email notifications about that opportunity's future deadlines.

The "Abandoned" Status should be used if you might reconsider applying to this grant in the future.

For example, maybe you started researching this grant and writing the application, but then other priorities took over and you never officially submitted the grant for this cycle.

Marking that grant as "Abandoned" would allow you to store the details about which year and which cycle you initially worked on that grant.

Opportunities in "Abandoned" will ensure you continue receiving reminders about future cycles in your weekly Monday Deadline Digest emails.

If you have decided that the opportunity is not a good fit and you would never consider applying in the future, then you can remove the opportunity from your Tracker. This will ensure you don't continue receiving email reminders about that opportunity.

This will move the grant to your "Hidden from this Project" list. If needed, you can always retrieve these at a later time. Learn more about retrieving hidden opportunities here.

Moving opportunities to the "Abandoned" Status is an excellent way to document opportunities that you did not get around to pursuing this year, but could be a good fit down the line. Learn how to effectively utilize our other Statuses here.

Reach out to our friendly support team if you have any questions about using this feature. Message us via the chat bubble when you're logged in, or email us at hello@instrumentl.com.