Planned posts let you put a draft on the calendar without committing to publish it. A planned post has a date and time, but it will never publish on its own. You stay in control of when it goes live.
Use planned posts to sketch out your content calendar. Lay out the week, see how everything fits together, and confirm each post when it's ready.
Planned vs. scheduled
The difference is simple: a scheduled post publishes automatically at its time. A planned post holds a time on the calendar, but won't publish until you schedule it.
Planned posts show with a dashed outline in the calendar and queue, so you can always tell them apart from scheduled posts, which have solid cards. When you open a planned post, Typefully shows "Will not publish until scheduled".
This is handy because placing a post in time and committing to publish it are two different decisions, often made by different people. A marketer can plan the whole week, and the founder confirms the posts on their own account. Working solo?
Sketch your week first, then confirm posts as you finish them.
How to plan a post
There are three ways to create a planned post:
From the calendar. In Plan, click any empty day or time slot, write your post, and click Create draft. Posts created from the calendar always start as planned.
From the editor. Click Schedule, pick a time (or use Next slot or Best time), then click Save as planned. Your post lands on the calendar without being scheduled.
Plan an existing draft. Click an empty calendar slot, switch to Drafts, pick the draft you want, and click Plan draft.
đĄ You can also turn a scheduled post back into a planned one with Unschedule. More on that below.
How to schedule a planned post
When a planned post is ready to go live, open it and click the schedule button. It shows the planned date, for example Schedule Thu, Jul 30. In the editor, the same button reads Confirm.
That's it. The post is now scheduled and will publish automatically at its time.
Want it out immediately instead? Open the post and click Publish now.
đĄ Dragging a post to a new time never changes its status. A planned post stays planned, a scheduled post stays scheduled.
If the planned time passes
Nothing publishes. The post stays on your calendar, and Typefully asks you to pick a new time.
Open the post, set a new time, then schedule it when you're ready.
Unschedule vs. Remove date
Two similar-sounding actions that do different things:
Unschedule turns a scheduled post back into a planned post. It keeps its date and stays on the calendar, but it won't publish anymore.
Remove date (in the editor: Remove planned date) clears the date entirely. The post goes back to your drafts.
So if you want to hold a post but keep its spot on the calendar, unschedule it. If you want it off the calendar, remove the date.
Where planned posts appear
Planned posts appear in both the Drafts and Queue tabs in the sidebar, and on the calendar in Plan. Look for the dashed outline and the dashed clock icon.
You can also filter the calendar by status. Open the Filter menu and pick Planned to see only your planned posts.
Planning with your team
Permissions follow the decision to publish, not the date:
Team members with edit access can plan posts, change planned dates, and remove them.
Only members with publish access can schedule, unschedule, or publish a post.
This means a writer or marketer can lay out weeks of content as planned posts, while the account owner decides what actually goes live.
Good to know
Planned times use the Social Set's timezone, like all other times in Typefully.
A planned post occupies its slot in your posting schedule, so Next slot will skip past it.
The calendar needs a bigger screen. On mobile, manage your planned posts from the Queue tab instead.
Planned posts are a Typefully app feature. The public API and Zapier don't have a planned status yet.