Managing Your Posting Plan
Small businesses that are consistent with posting engaging content, thrive on social media. Alkai aims to provide your small business with professional and engaging content that will delight your community, grow your followers, and attract customers to your unique products and services. Staying consistent is key.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
My Weekly Social Media Plan
Post Drafts
Previewing & Editing Planned Posts
Remove or Replace Draft
Completed & Scheduled Posts
Holidays
Plan Settings
Days of the week
Formats
The Plan is where you can see your generated post drafts as well as completed and scheduled posts for the current and following weeks.
By design, Alkai plans only two weeks at a time (the current week and the following week).
At the end of the current week, Alkai will extend your plan an additional week so you always have post ideas for the current and following week.
When Alkai generates your weekly plan, the suggested posts will appear in your plan as Post Drafts. The Drafts for the week can be previewed in the Plan window, and you can also get a glimpse of all your drafted posts at once under Profile - My Drafts.
Under "Weekly Social Media Plan", you will see all posts that Alkai has planned for the week. With the post drafts (i.e. the posts already generated by Alkai but not yet shared), you have the options to preview each post by clicking on its thumbnail picture, or you can edit or share it with the respective buttons. The "Edit post" button will open the post customization screen.
If you are happy with how it looks and the caption, click SHARE to complete the post.
If you want to make changes, add music, or try on different color/fonts styles and layouts click EDIT POST.
Visit our guide on editing a post to learn about all the tools you have to quickly and easily modify a post.
If you are unhappy with a post that Alkai has prepared, you may opt to remove it from your plan or replace with a new post. On a drafted post card, you will find three dots in the top right corner - click on that button and you will see the options to Remove or Replace. What they do:
REMOVE - the post will be completely removed from your posting plan as if it never existed; if there is nothing else planned for that day, the date will disappear from your posting plan as well.
REPLACE - Alkai will remove the post and you will be redirected to the Chat page where Alkai will create a new post following your requests. This post will replace the removed one.
Any post that you've shared will appear in your Plan as a Completed or Scheduled Post.
Completed Posts: Details about when the post was shared and which networks it was published too. Available actions:
SHARE allows you to share to post again, either downloading to your device or to a different social network.
DUPLICATE will create a copy of the post for you to edit and share as a new post.
Scheduled Posts: Details about date & time the post will be published and the social networks if will be published too. Available actions:
UNSCHEDULE will remove the schedule and revert the post back to a Draft.
RESCHEDULE allows you to modify which social networks to publish and/or choose a different date and time.
In addition to Post Ideas for your business, Alkai will generate Holiday posts to honor, celebrate, or recognize relevant major or social holidays. Holiday posts are a great way to engage with followers and maintain consistency and diversity in your social posting. Just like Post Ideas, you can generate Holiday posts in advance if you want to work ahead.
To use a Holiday idea, click on "Select Template" in a card with the holiday name, and you will be taken to the Edit Post screen where you will be able to select any template from the collection tailored to the occasion. Needless to say that each of these templates can be freely customized, too!
In the top right corner of the Plan tab, you will see the "Settings" button - clicking on it will instantly take you to the Plan Settings page.
You can also access your Posting Plan settings from the Profile menu.
Click on Profile
Select Plan settings
Under Planning Brief, you can instruct Alkai on the ideas and strategies for your business. Under Weekly, you can give instructions on the strategy and post ideas for the week to follow, while the General section stands for long-term directions. Alkai will create post ideas based on the instructions provided here.
Alkai will plan one post idea for each posting day. By default, Alkai will plan a post for every day of the week. You can adjust which days Alkai will automatically plan and draft post ideas.
Alkai supports several different image and video formats, with more coming soon. Use the Format settings to define which formats Alkai is allowed to plan for post ideas. Remember, you can always adjust a post idea to a different format in your Plan, even if it's one you don't have selected in your Format settings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
My Weekly Social Media Plan
Post Drafts
Previewing & Editing Planned Posts
Remove or Replace Draft
Completed & Scheduled Posts
Holidays
Plan Settings
Days of the week
Formats
My Weekly Social Media Plan
The Plan is where you can see your generated post drafts as well as completed and scheduled posts for the current and following weeks.
By design, Alkai plans only two weeks at a time (the current week and the following week).
At the end of the current week, Alkai will extend your plan an additional week so you always have post ideas for the current and following week.
Post Drafts
When Alkai generates your weekly plan, the suggested posts will appear in your plan as Post Drafts. The Drafts for the week can be previewed in the Plan window, and you can also get a glimpse of all your drafted posts at once under Profile - My Drafts.
Previewing & Editing Planned Posts
Under "Weekly Social Media Plan", you will see all posts that Alkai has planned for the week. With the post drafts (i.e. the posts already generated by Alkai but not yet shared), you have the options to preview each post by clicking on its thumbnail picture, or you can edit or share it with the respective buttons. The "Edit post" button will open the post customization screen.
If you are happy with how it looks and the caption, click SHARE to complete the post.
If you want to make changes, add music, or try on different color/fonts styles and layouts click EDIT POST.
Visit our guide on editing a post to learn about all the tools you have to quickly and easily modify a post.
Remove or Replace Draft
If you are unhappy with a post that Alkai has prepared, you may opt to remove it from your plan or replace with a new post. On a drafted post card, you will find three dots in the top right corner - click on that button and you will see the options to Remove or Replace. What they do:
REMOVE - the post will be completely removed from your posting plan as if it never existed; if there is nothing else planned for that day, the date will disappear from your posting plan as well.
REPLACE - Alkai will remove the post and you will be redirected to the Chat page where Alkai will create a new post following your requests. This post will replace the removed one.
Completed & Scheduled Posts
Any post that you've shared will appear in your Plan as a Completed or Scheduled Post.
Completed Posts: Details about when the post was shared and which networks it was published too. Available actions:
SHARE allows you to share to post again, either downloading to your device or to a different social network.
DUPLICATE will create a copy of the post for you to edit and share as a new post.
Scheduled Posts: Details about date & time the post will be published and the social networks if will be published too. Available actions:
UNSCHEDULE will remove the schedule and revert the post back to a Draft.
RESCHEDULE allows you to modify which social networks to publish and/or choose a different date and time.
Holidays
In addition to Post Ideas for your business, Alkai will generate Holiday posts to honor, celebrate, or recognize relevant major or social holidays. Holiday posts are a great way to engage with followers and maintain consistency and diversity in your social posting. Just like Post Ideas, you can generate Holiday posts in advance if you want to work ahead.
To use a Holiday idea, click on "Select Template" in a card with the holiday name, and you will be taken to the Edit Post screen where you will be able to select any template from the collection tailored to the occasion. Needless to say that each of these templates can be freely customized, too!
Plan Settings
In the top right corner of the Plan tab, you will see the "Settings" button - clicking on it will instantly take you to the Plan Settings page.
You can also access your Posting Plan settings from the Profile menu.
Click on Profile
Select Plan settings
Planning Brief
Under Planning Brief, you can instruct Alkai on the ideas and strategies for your business. Under Weekly, you can give instructions on the strategy and post ideas for the week to follow, while the General section stands for long-term directions. Alkai will create post ideas based on the instructions provided here.
Days of the week
Alkai will plan one post idea for each posting day. By default, Alkai will plan a post for every day of the week. You can adjust which days Alkai will automatically plan and draft post ideas.
Formats
Alkai supports several different image and video formats, with more coming soon. Use the Format settings to define which formats Alkai is allowed to plan for post ideas. Remember, you can always adjust a post idea to a different format in your Plan, even if it's one you don't have selected in your Format settings.
Updated on: 04/06/2025
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