Social/social/queue
The content queue, approve the morning drop
Joe drafts every weekday morning after 7am. You read, approve, or reject; approved LinkedIn posts publish themselves at their slot.
Step by step
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Open the morning drop
Drafts appear each weekday after 7am. Empty queue? Click "Run drop now" to generate today's drafts immediately, or "Plan a week (Instagram)" to design five posts with suggested times in one sitting.
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Read a card
Each card shows the platform, the full draft, and a status badge (draft, approved, posted, failed). LinkedIn cards with a slot show "schedule for …" so you know exactly when they'd go out.
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Approve, or approve + auto-publish
Click "Approve" to accept a draft. On LinkedIn cards with a scheduled slot the button reads "Approve + auto-publish": the post then publishes itself at that time with no further clicks. "Reject" hides a card; "Veto (cancel publish)" pulls an approved post back.
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Post the manual platforms
For Instagram, click "Ready to post", the caption copies and the image downloads in one click. Paste and post in the app, then click "Mark posted" so the record stays true.
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Filter by brand
With more than one brand, pills above the list ("All brands" + each brand) narrow the queue to one voice at a time.
Tips
- ✓Approving costs nothing until a slot hits, "Veto (cancel publish)" works any time before the scheduled minute.
- ✓The Instagram banner walks the exact schedule flow: drag the image into instagram.com/create, paste, then pick the suggested date under Advanced settings.
- ✓A failed publish shows the error on the card with a "Retry publish" button, no digging.
What you'll actually see
- "Approve" does not publish instantly, LinkedIn posts wait for their scheduled slot (past-due ones go out about two minutes later); everything else unlocks the copy/download path.
- Instagram and the Joe experiment posts are manual by design: "Ready to post" copies the caption and downloads the image, and "Mark posted" is your honest bookkeeping click.
- The empty state is real: "Nothing in the queue yet. Joe drafts every weekday morning after 7am, or generate today's drafts right now."
▸Video scripta 60-120s narration you can record as-is
This is the content queue, the two-minute morning job. It's just after 7am, so the drop already ran: here are today's drafts, written in my brand voice, per platform. Each card shows the full text and when it would publish. This LinkedIn one has a slot, so the button says "Approve + auto-publish", one click, and it will post itself at 10:30 without me. This one I don't love, "Reject", gone. Instagram works differently, and the page is honest about it: I click "Ready to post", the caption copies and the image downloads in one click. I paste it in the Instagram app, then click "Mark posted" so the record stays true. If the queue's ever empty, "Run drop now" generates today's drafts on demand, and "Plan a week" designs five Instagram posts with suggested times in one sitting. Approve, reject, done, the queue refills itself tomorrow morning.