Building an Editorial Calendar

Hello Friends~

As I was struggling this month setting goals and when I wanted to write/post, I looked around for options for editorial calendars.

I tried my planner – looked bad i didn’t want to over do my schedule and stress myself out (I know myself well enough to know this would do it)

I printed off a dedicated calendar for it, also didn’t like how it looked.

Looked up Apps, nothing really looked like it would work for me, they all required getting into a new dedicated space

Finally I decided to do it in Google Docs – the document file. It was okay and I happy. It worked, I put it in a table and made it work. Then I realized it was in a table, why not just put it in the sheets.

So I did and I love it. So I wanted to share.

I was just really happy with how this came out. I can copy it over for the month as well – as some items will be done monthly, and fill in any details. You can see to the right I added post I want to do in hashtag – I want to track them with tags as well as put a Call to Action which I never remember to end my post with.

I was really happy with this, and wanted to share. It both looks nice and is functional. Plus its free, so I can use it right away without worrying about an added expense. I love Google Docs. Please feel free to use my exact format – or even post ideas. I hope this helps you with design & planning.

For ideas I still carry around a notebook and write things down as I go BUT I transfer them to the first page of the Sheets file and make notes if I need them. I found this worked better than paper for me – easier to read and map out.