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Content calendar

The calendar shows everything scheduled in your workspace in one place: blog articles, social posts and emails, with the channel and the status of each. You move items with a drag, see what needs your attention and follow the materials Semurai is preparing.

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Open the calendar

Open Tools → Calendar. The header says Scheduled materials for your domain and offers two buttons:

  • New post opens a chat with a prepared request for a post in the days you see. Semurai suggests the channel, the date and the copy, and the post lands in the calendar for your review. It needs the right to edit content.
  • Generate content plan opens a chat that asks for a content plan for the days on screen: channels, dates, drafts and outlines to approve. The result is a content plan, not a 7-day campaign. It needs the right to run agents.

People with view-only access see the calendar without these buttons.

The content calendar in the 5 days view with articles and posts on each day
The 5 days view, the default: five days from today.

Move around

  • Today brings you back to the current day, and the arrows next to it page backwards and forwards.
  • On the keyboard, T goes to today, [ and ] page back and forward. The left and right arrow keys do the same when nothing on the page is selected.

Views

ViewWhat you see
5 daysFive days from today, the default view. Paging moves by five days.
WeekThe whole week, day by day.
MonthThe month at a glance. Click a day to open the 5 days view starting on it.
ListThe items of the period one under another, grouped by day.
The Month view of the calendar with items on several days
The Month view: click a day to see it in detail.
The List view of the calendar with items grouped by day
The List view shows the items one under another.

Filters

  • Channel: only the channels that have items in the period, each with its count, for example Blog, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X or E-mail.
  • Status: Scheduled, To review, Approved outlines, In progress and Published.
  • Needs attention: chips that appear when there is something to do: Overdue, Failed publications and To review. Click a chip to show only those items.
  • When no item matches, Clear filters shows everything again.
The calendar filters with the Channel and Status selects and the Needs attention chips
Filter by channel and status, or jump to what needs attention.

What shows up in the calendar

  • Items of campaigns and content plans that have a date.
  • Scheduled social posts: posts you scheduled with Schedule post in the post editor, and X posts added with Add to calendar.
  • Social post and email documents with a date.
  • Articles with a scheduled date. An article shows as published once it has been sent to WordPress or Shoper.

The card

Each card shows the time, the title, the channel, where the item comes from (for example a content plan or a scheduled post) and a status pill such as Scheduled, To approve or Published. While Semurai is working on an item, the card says what is happening, for example Semurai is writing the article. When a plan is being prepared, a bar above the calendar shows Semurai is creating materials with how many are ready, and Open plan takes you to the plan.

A calendar card while Semurai writes the article, with the progress bar of the plan above the calendar
Cards show what Semurai is working on; the bar shows how much of the plan is ready.

A click on a card opens:

  • the article in the SEO editor,
  • the social post or email in its editor,
  • the chat result that waits for your approval to publish,
  • the item in its content plan,
  • or, for anything else, a new chat about that item.

Reschedule

  1. Drag it to another day

    Drag a card to another day. It keeps its time. An item without a time asks you for one first.

  2. Or change the day and the time

    Click the reschedule button on the card to open Reschedule. Set the Day and the Time and click Save. The dialog shows the time zone it uses: the time zone of your browser.

    The Reschedule dialog with the day, the time and the time zone of the browser
    Reschedule: a new day and time, in your browser’s time zone.
  3. Confirm a past time

    If the new time has already passed, Semurai asks first (This slot has passed), because the item may be published right away. Choose Move anyway or cancel.

RecordingTranscript
  1. The calendar shows the week day by day
  2. Drag a post to another day to move it
  3. The post keeps its time on the new day
  4. To change the time, click Reschedule on a card
  5. Set the new day and time
  6. Save, and the card moves to its new slot
  • Items that are published, being published or cancelled cannot be moved.
  • Moving a post whose publication failed puts it back in the queue for the new time.

Publishing

The calendar has no publish button. Scheduled social posts go out on their own at their time, and campaign articles for a connected WordPress site are published at their time too. Everything is approved before it is scheduled.

  • If a post fails, its card shows the reason and Try again. A post that cannot reach its account asks you to reconnect the account in the integrations settings.
  • When it is unclear whether a failed post went out, Semurai asks you to Check whether the post is already live on the profile first. If it is not, choose It is not live, retry, so nothing appears twice.

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