See Your Whole Schedule, Two Ways.
There are two ways to see and manage your queue: a month grid that lays your posts out by date, and a table view that lists them so you can filter and sort. This page covers both, plus how to read the colored statuses on every post.
The Month Grid
The calendar opens to a month grid, with your scheduled posts laid out on the days they are set to go out.
One Chip per Post, Colored by Status
Every post shows up as a small chip on its day. The chip is colored by its status, so you can scan a whole month and tell at a glance what is a draft, what is approved and armed, and what has already gone out. The colors are explained further down this page.
Hover a chip to see the full title of the post. Click a chip to open and edit that post. Click an empty day to start a new post already dated to that day, so you do not have to set the date by hand.
Drag to Reschedule
Moving a post to a different day is as direct as it sounds.
Pick It Up and Drop It on a New Day
Drag a chip to another day and let go to move the post to that date. The post keeps its time of day; only the date changes. Nothing publishes early or late because you moved it, and the move sticks the moment you drop it.
This is the quickest way to spread out a bunched-up week or push a post back a day or two without opening it.
The Unscheduled Tray
Not every draft needs a date right away. The ones without a date wait for you in the Unscheduled tray.
A Holding Spot for Dateless Drafts
Drafts that do not have a date yet live in the Unscheduled tray. Open it from the month header and the tray slides out alongside the grid. It is a handy place to park ideas you have written but are not ready to commit to a day.
Drag a draft out of the tray and onto a day to schedule it, or drag a post from the grid back into the tray to clear its date and set it aside again. The tray and the grid work together, so a post is only ever in one place at a time.
The Table (Queue) View
When you would rather read your posts as a list than a grid, switch to the table view.
A List You Can Filter and Sort
The table view lays your posts out row by row, with their status, platforms, and publish dates in plain columns. It comes with a Publish Date filter that defaults to a sensible recent range, so you land on what is current instead of the whole history of everything you have ever posted.
Filter by date range or status to narrow the list, and sort by the columns to line posts up the way you want to read them. It is the same posts as the grid, just shown as a list for when you want to work through them in order.
Reading Statuses
Every post carries a status, and every status has a color. Here is what each one means in plain language.
- DraftWritten but not approved. The post exists, but nothing will happen with it until you approve it.
- ApprovedApproved and armed. The post is waiting for its time. For a connected post, this means it will publish on its own at the time you set. Approved is armed-and-waiting, not yet done.
- PostingIn the act of publishing right now. This is the brief moment while PostHelp is sending the post to your account.
- PostedPublished successfully and live on your account. Posted is done-and-live, the finished state. This is the difference from approved: approved is still waiting, posted has already gone out.
- RemindedA reminder email was sent for an unconnected post. PostHelp let you know it was time to post, and the rest is in your hands.
- FailedPublishing did not go through after retries. Something stopped the post from going out, so it is worth opening to see what happened and try again.
Permalinks
Once a connected post is live, you do not have to go hunting for it.
A Link Straight to the Live Post
After a connected post publishes, the post links out to the live post on your account. One click takes you to the real thing, so you can check how it looks, share it, or keep an eye on the comments without digging through each platform yourself.
Timezone
No mental math on what time a post will actually go out.
Everything Shows in Your Timezone
Every date and time you see in the calendar and the table displays in your profile timezone. The time on a post is the time it will go out for you, with no conversion to work through in your head. Set your timezone once in your profile and the whole calendar speaks your local time from then on.