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The Check for what's new button

This is the one button that brings your project up to date. FoxPlug reads your connected tools only when you press it, so you stay in charge of what gets fetched.

Where to find it: Today, the big green box at the top Open it in FoxPlug

Steps

1. Go to Today. The big green button, Check for what's new, sits at the top. Only the owner of the account sees it.
2. Read the line beside the button. It says when you last checked, or 'Never checked - press to get your first brief'. If it has been more than a day, an Out of date marker shows and the button pulses.
3. Press Check for what's new. The button changes to Checking and shows what it is doing, one step at a time: reading your connected tools, reading what you shipped, scoring what is worth sharing, writing posts for what is new, and building your brief.
4. Wait for the line that starts with 'Done'. It says how many new updates were found, or 'Nothing new yet', or 'Nothing new since' your last check.
5. Open your drafts and your Today brief to see the result. Nothing is posted; every draft waits for you to approve it.
6. The button then rests for a few minutes and shows 'Available again in' a number of minutes.

Good to know

• One press reads your connected tools, reads your recent activity, scores what you shipped, writes drafts for the new items that were waiting, saves the time of the check on your project, and rebuilds your Today brief.
• If something changed in a connected tool since your last check, a line says 'New work on this project since your last check'. Nothing has been pulled yet at that point. The line is only a hint to press the button.
• A free account can only get so many updates written in a day. If the limit is reached, the rest are kept and the message says more are kept for a day with updates left. See https://foxplug.com/pricing for what each plan includes.
• If a connected tool is broken, the line under the button says so, with a link, See Your connections.
• FoxPlug holds back from fetching for you because every fetch costs money, and a fetch nobody looks at is wasted. The only times it fetches without this button are described in the Automatic updates article.

What it does not do

• It does not post anything to any network. It only writes drafts for you to approve.
• It does not change your connected tools. It only reads them.
• Your tools are not read in the background just because a webhook or a capture arrived. Those only mark the project as having new work, and the actual reading waits for a press or for the automatic updates you have set up.
• It does not run on a timer for accounts that have not earned or paid for automatic updates.

Related

• Automatic updates: when FoxPlug brings things up to date for you
• The Your connections card: what each state means
• Brief by email
• Docs that stay current
• Drafts: where your posts are and why nothing posts on its own

Something here not matching what you see? Write to hello@foxplug.com and say which line. Last checked 2026-11-12.