'a quick check-in' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when referring to a brief assessment or review of a situation. For example: "Before the meeting, we had a quick check-in to make sure everyone was on the same page."
The key is to get in and get out -- a quick check-in that sets the tone for the day.
When a quick check-in turns into minutes, then hours, of scrolling through posts and articles, it's best to be deluded about how much time you just wasted.
This can be hard to enforce at a party, with lots of distractions and their cousins waiting to play with them, so I don't sweat it but when it's clear that they'd rather play than eat, I do a quick check-in and we talk about how they are feeling.
Don't neglect to make a quick check-in with your doctor before you start Volumetrics or before you start an exercise plan.
How about getting a quick check in anticipation of your tax refund?
After a quick check in the (Vespa's rear) mirror, they're into the Louis Vuitton show.
But a quick check in a publicly accessible Internet database would have revealed that Karl Rove & Company, which owned the official Bush campaign Web site, had also purchased bushwhitman.com, bushridge.com, bushengler.com and bushpataki.net -- apparent nods of consideration to the governors of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York.
They will not go out of their way to bite but handling them is not advisable and, if you know they are about in your neighbourhood, a quick check in a long unused pair of shoes or Wellington boot might be advisable in case you step on one.
A quick check in on the website today, for example, reveals no current live offers, and we're hearing that this has been the state of play since late November.
I did a quick check in the rear-view mirror.
Although proximity does not necessarily mean functional or structural dependency, it is usually used as a quick check in covariation studies [ 18, 27, 29, 33].
