Schedule YouTube Shorts and videos on a 4-week calendar.

Four weeks, a column per weekday

The runsheet starts today and runs four weeks, laid out as a calendar with Monday first, so each column is a weekday. That is what answers the questions a posting rhythm raises: am I posting every Tuesday, is next week thin, how far is this video from the one before it. A day with nothing in it says so and offers to be filled, with your saved ideas or a plan for that day, rather than sitting there as a blank square. The list view shows the same four weeks one day per row, for when you would rather read down than across.

Shorts and long cuts sit in the same day. Most tooling treats them as separate pipelines, which is how a week ends up with five shorts and no long video without anyone deciding that.

YouTube keeps the appointment

A scheduled video is uploaded to YouTube immediately as private, carrying a publishAt timestamp. YouTube flips it public at that moment, on its own clock, so the slot is kept whether or not anything at our end is awake at 4am. If an upload does not complete, you see it the moment it happens rather than the morning after.

An empty day offers your saved ideas

Open an empty day and it lists the ideas you saved. Pick one and the composer opens with its title and the day already filled in; the file is still yours to attach, or you can save it as a plan now and add the file later. The point is that the answer to “what do I post Thursday” is not a blank page at 11pm on Wednesday.