Social calendar

Use Social Calendar to manage everything that is already scheduled, waiting for approval, or ready to be created from scratch.

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What Social Calendar is for

Open Social Calendar from the left sidebar when you want one place to manage outgoing posts across your connected accounts. This is the final publishing layer in Overlap. Workflows and posting setups can generate post-ready drafts for you, but Social Calendar is where you review the schedule, make last-mile edits, approve posts when needed, and manually add new posts.

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Shuffle an existing schedule

Use Shuffle Posts to randomize the order of upcoming posts. You can include or exclude each platform and choose Current cadence to keep that platform in its existing slots, or schedule up to one, two, or three posts per day. A daily cadence creates as many future calendar dates as the selected posts require while preserving each post’s local time of day. The date range chooses which posts are reorganized; it does not prevent the new cadence from extending beyond that range. The server validates and applies the same shuffle shown in the preview.

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Understanding the calendar view

In the current live calendar view, Overlap gives you a few top-level controls for managing the schedule:

• Today jumps you back to the current week
• Filters narrows the set of posts you are looking at
• Manage opens bulk schedule actions
• Week and Month change the calendar layout
• the grid and list toggles switch between calendar and list-style management
• Create Post starts a brand-new post manually

Each day groups posts by status and scheduled time, which makes it easy to see what has already gone out and what is still upcoming.

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Editing an existing post

Click any post card to open its details. From the post view, you can use Social Calendar to make the final changes before something goes live:

• update the post copy
• preview the clip from its saved cover, select Cover to pause and return to the beginning, select Replace to upload a cover, or select Design to open the Thumbnail Editor
• open and revise the clip
• change the scheduled time
• switch the destination account
• approve the post if your workflow requires user approval before publishing

This makes Social Calendar useful for both automated and manual workflows. Even if a workflow created the draft, you still have a clean place to review the exact post that is queued to publish. When you choose Design, the editor loads the clip’s current cut and authored layers. Pick a frame, add or restyle text and images, remove unwanted overlays from the cover only, and adjust the colour treatment. Save thumbnail stores the composited image on the clip and preserves the editable design so reopening it restores the same frame and layers. Thumbnail-only changes do not alter the video timeline.

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Creating a post from scratch

Click Create Post in the top-right corner when you want to add something manually instead of waiting for a workflow to generate it. The current creation flow supports starting new posts as:

• clip posts
• carousel posts
• text posts

From the current modal, you can choose the platform and account, set the scheduled date and time, upload media when needed, and write the exact post copy you want stored with the scheduled post. Use this flow when you want to write a post directly in Overlap, add a fresh clip to the schedule, or fill gaps in the calendar with content that did not come from an automated run.

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Approving and adjusting scheduled posts

As posts move toward publishing, Social Calendar gives you one place to confirm the final version. A practical review pass is:

1. Open the post from the calendar.
2. Check the account and scheduled time.
3. Review or refine the copy.
4. Update the clip if the creative needs changes.
5. Approve the post if approval is required.

Any edits you make here become part of the version that is scheduled to publish.

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Mass rescheduling future posts

Use Manage, then Reschedule, when you need to move a whole set of upcoming posts at once. Reschedule applies to the future posts that are currently visible in the calendar based on your active filters. A good pattern is: In cadence mode, all available platform icons are selected by default. Toggle platforms on or off to choose which schedules are affected, then apply one shared posts-per-day amount, repeat interval, and start date to those platforms. The cadence is calculated independently for each selected platform, while unselected platforms remain unchanged.

1. Filter down to the accounts or posts you want to change.
2. Confirm you are looking at the right future posts.
3. Open Manage.
4. Choose Reschedule to shift that visible set together.

This is the fastest way to rebalance a publishing week without editing each post one by one.

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Switching to List view

The list toggle is helpful when you want broader schedule management instead of a calendar scan. Use List view when you want to:

• review many upcoming posts in one pass
• compare timing, account, and status more quickly
• make bulk management decisions without moving day by day

Use the calendar view when you want to reason about spacing across the week. Use the list view when you want a denser operational view of the queue.

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How this fits with workflows

Workflows and posting setups decide how content gets generated and scheduled. Social Calendar is where you manage the outgoing result. That division is useful:

• use workflows to automate clip creation and draft scheduling
• use Social Calendar to review, edit, approve, create, and reschedule posts before they publish