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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.
Social Calendar week view

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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.
Social Calendar post detail panel
From the post view, you can use Social Calendar to make the final changes before something goes live:
  • update the post copy
  • 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.
If you use approval-required posting, Social Calendar becomes the handoff point between automation and final human review.

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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.
Social Calendar create post modal
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:
  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