Reading the calendar

The calendar is a month grid, Monday to Sunday, growing to cover everything planned. There is no list view and no filters. It is a month.

What a day carries

A planned day shows a status chip, the keyword or the article's title, the shape of the article such as a guide or a list, where the keyword came from, and the search volume where one is known.

An empty day inside your plan offers Add a topic.

Days outside the plan are blank.

The buttons

The button on a day tells you what you can do with it, and the label changes with its state.

Write it now on today's article, when writing is available to you.

Written with Pro where writing needs a subscription.

Opens Sep 11 on a future day, deliberately disabled. <!-- example --> Articles are written on their scheduled day so they reflect the site as it is then, and the calendar says so rather than leaving you guessing why the button is dead.

Review & publish once a draft exists.

View published post once it has gone out.

The day menu

The control on a day card opens four actions.

Open this day opens the day panel: the topic, the brief it will be written from, your instructions, the interview questions, and what has happened. See steering a day before it is written.

Move to another day opens the move dialog.

Write it again replaces the current draft. It asks first, because it discards your edits.

Remove this day clears it. The keyword returns to the pool rather than being destroyed, so removing a day you would not publish is cheap and reversible by refreshing.

Moving a day

Move this day takes a date, with two rules stated on the dialog.

One article a day, and a day that already has one will say so.

You cannot move an article into the past, because an article is written on its scheduled day.

While an article is written

Starting one shows what it is doing: preparing research, drafting sections and checking links, with a note that it can take up to a minute.

When it finishes you are offered the draft or the grid. Reading it is covered in the day page and the editor.

Above and below the grid

Above: the status line saying what the calendar will do next, Pause, the four figures, and Refresh topics.

A banner appears when something needs saying, such as everything scheduled up to today having been written, or the last build having failed.

Below: a note when the keyword pool has run out, explaining that the next daily top-up will find more.

On a phone

The grid becomes an agenda list, which is the same information in the order you would read it on a small screen.

Where to go next

Steering a day before it is written is what to do with a day you care about. The day page and the editor is what happens after one is written.