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How to use the content calendar

Use the content calendar to create and plan your content and to gain a clear overview

Carmen Villanueva avatar
Written by Carmen Villanueva
Updated over 2 months ago

Thanks to the StoryChief calendar, you can have an overview of your content and its progress. This is a great way to brainstorm better, maintain consistency, manage deadlines, assign articles to colleagues and see what everyone is working on. Learn more about how to boost your content marketing strategy by using StoryChief's content calendar.

Watch our Academy video πŸ“Ή on using the Content Calendar and Editorial briefs for a step-by-step guide:

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Start using the content calendar

1. How to plan content from the calendar:

Step 1. In your dashboard click on: Calendar πŸ‘‰ Quick link.

Step 2. To start planning in content, click on a day and then a pop-up will appear asking if you want to:

Step 3. Once you've selected one of the four options, a second pop-up will appear asking you to fill in the details.

For example, if creating an article, you can add a title, language, due time, assign it to a user in your account, add it to existing campaigns.

Below the SEO keyword, there is a button to add an editorial brief. This is the perfect place to leave instructions and details for the writer team so they can create the best possible article.

πŸ’‘ Tip: Once you've filled in the details of your article, click on Save or Save and add another to keep planning in articles.

Step 4. To get more information on the content, simply click on an article, social post, event, or campaign.

If you click on an article or social post, the pop-up provides a preview of the content, the channel, the title or caption, the status, the review status (if any), the campaign(s) and the collaborator(s).

Simply click on the gear icon to open the sidewindow (see step 3.) or click on somewhere else in the popup the start editing the post or to unschedule/unpublish it.

2. Change the view of your calendar

Use the buttons located near the top-right to change between a month and week view. You can change the start of the week in your Account page (Sunday/Monday).

The weekly view shows straight away a small preview of each single article or social post per day, together with its channel, title or caption, status, the review status (if any), campaign(s) and the collaborator(s).

By clicking on this preview, you'll be able to edit it right away.

πŸ’‘ Tip: Did you know that you can also add collaborators to your articles, social posts or campaigns in bulk? follow this article to know more.


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