Outgoing calendar: your send dates

Read your outgoing calendar one list at a time: what each colour and chip means, what opening a day does, changing or blocking a single date, the scheduled tick, and private day notes.

Last updated September 7, 20264 min read

The Outgoing Calendar shows, for one mailing list at a time, the days you have promised to send something: swaps, group promo shares, and the days you have set aside. It is also where you adjust a single date without touching your weekly swap settings.

Pick a list

Select Email List holds every list of yours that is switched on. A list with only one entry is selected for you; with several, pick one and the month appears. If the dropdown says No email lists found, none of your lists has swap settings yet: set them up first.

Read the month

  • Sun8
    No bookings
  • Mon9
    No bookingsFeature3 Mentions
  • Tue10
    Feature + 3 Mentions
  • Wed11
    FeatureJane Doe
  • Thu12
    SoloDana Marek
  • Fri13
    Blocked
  • Sat14
    Blocked
One week: a past day, an open day with capacity chips, a confirmed multi-swap marked as scheduled, a pending request, a confirmed swap missing your link, a blocked day and a day with no availability.

Each day is a cell, and each promise on it is a pill. The colour of the pill is the status.

Status:
Confirmed
Pending
Awaiting Upgrade
Blocked
Needs Confirmation
The five pill colours and what each one means.
  • Confirmed, green, is an accepted swap or a promo share. When a Feature and Mentions land on the same day they collapse into one pill such as Feature + 3 Mentions.
  • Pending, yellow, is a request nobody has answered yet. It holds no capacity.
  • Needs Confirmation, purple, is a confirmed swap whose date has passed and which still needs confirming.
  • Awaiting Upgrade, orange, is a swap on hold because the sender is over their monthly limit.
  • Blocked, red, is a date you have closed yourself.

Three smaller marks matter too. Little chips at the foot of an open day show what can still be booked there, such as Feature or 3 Mentions, after confirmed swaps are taken off. An amber triangle in the corner means a swap you accepted is still waiting for your book link. A green tick means you have marked the day as scheduled. Grey days are either in the past or have no availability; hovering an empty grey day says No swap settings configured for this date and links to the settings.

Open a day

  • A day with anything on it opens its details: one card per swap or promo, with the actions that belong to it and, for a blocked day, Unblock This Date.
  • An empty future day opens the availability editor for that date.
  • An empty past day does nothing.

Change one date's availability

Your weekly swap settings decide what every Monday, Tuesday and so on offers. The editor changes one date only.

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Edit Availability

Set what's available for this specific date

Custom
Already booked: 1 Feature, 2 Mentions. The fields below set the day's total capacity.
Solo

Newsletter dedicated to one book

Feature

Featured book section

Mention

Brief book mentions

4

Reset to default availability according to mailing list swap settings

Block DateThis date has a confirmed booking and can't be blocked
NoteCancelSave Availability
The editor for one date that already holds a Feature and two Mentions: the booked Feature stays on, Mentions cannot drop below two, and the date cannot be blocked.

The three controls set the day's total: Solo on its own, or a Feature plus a number of Mentions, exactly as in the weekly grid. Confirmed bookings are the floor. A booked Feature stays ticked and cannot be removed, and Mentions cannot go below the number already confirmed, so a promise you have made can never be edited away. A date that differs from the weekly schedule shows a Custom badge, and the reset link takes it back to the schedule as long as nothing is booked on it.

Block a date

Block Date, at the bottom of the same editor, closes the day to new requests. Save it and the day shows a red Blocked pill. It is disabled on a day that already has a confirmed booking: blocking does not cancel a swap, so the promise would stand while the day looked closed. Open a blocked day and choose Unblock This Date to reopen it.

Mark a day as scheduled

The circle in the corner of a day with a confirmed booking turns into a green tick when you click it. It is a personal record that you have queued the newsletter in your email service, nothing more: it does not schedule or send anything, does not change availability, and tells nobody. Use it to see at a glance which of this month's sends are already prepared.

Add a private note

Note, in the footer of either day view, keeps a private note on the date, up to 500 characters. Only you can see it, it stays on the day whatever is booked, and the day shows a small note icon with the text on hover.

Common questions

Why is a day grey?

Either it is in the past, or nothing can be booked on it: that weekday is off in your swap settings, or you set this one date to nothing. Hover it for the link to the settings.

Why can I not block this date?

It holds a confirmed swap. Blocking never cancels a swap, so the day cannot be closed while one is booked on it.

Where do I move a swap to another day?

Not here. A share date is changed by a request the other author approves, from the swap's card on Active Swaps.

Why do the chips ignore pending requests?

Because a request nobody has accepted does not take a slot. Only confirmed bookings reduce what a day can still take.

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