LinkedIn gives you a basic list of your connections, but provides no search by connection tenure, no sorting by date, and no way to manage your network in bulk. Here is how a client-side connection manager works and how to use it.
Last updated 14 October 2026
On LinkedIn's default My Network page, your 1st-degree connections are presented in an infinite scrolling feed with minimal sorting. You cannot sort by oldest connection date or filter out inactive accounts without endlessly scrolling and waiting for pages to load.
If you have several thousand connections, scrolling to find contacts you connected with five or ten years ago can take twenty minutes of continuous browser freezing.
A dedicated connection manager like Unpend's Network Manager reads your connections list directly within your existing logged-in browser session and loads them into a fast, searchable table.
You can instantly filter by keyword (job title, employer, industry), sort chronologically from oldest to newest, and view accurate connection counts without sending a single byte of your data to external servers.
When auditing a large network, the greatest fear is accidentally disconnecting from an important client, close colleague, or mentor. Unpend includes a dedicated Protect List.
Adding someone to your Protect List ensures that no matter what filters or bulk cleanup actions you trigger, their connection status remains permanently untouched.
Before pruning or modifying your network, you should always keep a local archive. The Network Manager allows you to export your filtered or complete connection list to CSV with one click.
This CSV contains full names, headlines, profile links, and connection dates, giving you a permanent offline backup of your professional relationships.
LinkedIn's native page is an unfilterable infinite-scroll list. Unpend turns your connections into a searchable, sortable database with date filtering, protect lists, and instant CSV export.
Never. Unpend executes 100% within your local browser runtime. Your network data is stored strictly in chrome.storage.local on your computer and is never sent to our servers.
Yes. Loading, browsing, filtering, and searching your entire network in the Network Manager is completely free and unlimited for all users.
Unpend is a free Chrome extension that withdraws every pending invitation in a single run, and shows you the network LinkedIn will not. 150 free actions a month, nothing leaves your browser.
Add to Chrome, freeUnpend has a popup that clears a whole list by rule, and a Network Manager that loads everything into a table so you pick. Which to reach for, and why.
How Unpend’s one-run cleanup works, what the age filter and pacing do, what happens if LinkedIn reloads the page, and how to stop it.
The one screen that shows your whole LinkedIn network as a table you can sort, search and filter, and act on exactly the rows you pick.
LinkedIn gives you no way to query your own network. Here is what becomes possible once the whole list is in a table you can filter.
