# Weekly template (/docs/using/schedule/weekly-template)

Your weekly template is the set of times you post every week, for example 9:00 and 17:00 Monday to Friday. **Add to Queue** places Notes on these times. Each time is called a slot.

## Open the template [#open-the-template]

Either:

- **My Notes → More actions → Edit schedule queue**, or
- **My Notes → Scheduled notes → Edit queue**.

The dialog is called **Create a posting schedule** when you have no times yet, and **Edit your posting schedule** after that.

## Start with a suggested schedule [#start-with-a-suggested-schedule]

If you have no times yet:

1. Click **Create suggested schedule**.
2. Enter **How many notes per day?**
3. Click **Create schedule**. WriteStack picks the times for you.

You can change any of them afterwards.

## Add a time [#add-a-time]

1. Click **Add a new slot**.
2. Set the hour and minutes. Your timezone shows under the picker.
3. Click **Save slot**. If that time already exists, the button reads **Time used**.

A new time is on all seven days. Untick the days you don't want.

## Edit a time [#edit-a-time]

| To | Do this |
| --- | --- |
| Change the time | Click the time, type the new one, press Enter |
| Change the days | Tick or untick **MON** to **SUN** in its row |
| Delete it | Click the trash icon ("Delete slot (It won't delete your schedules)") |

If future Notes are scheduled at that time, WriteStack asks first:

| You changed | Dialog | Choices |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The time | **Move scheduled notes too?** | **Update slot only** or **Update slot + move notes** |
| Deleted it | **Delete slot with scheduled notes?** | **Delete slot only** or **Delete slot + reschedule notes** (moves them to the next free times) |

## Reserve a time for tags [#reserve-a-time-for-tags]

1. Click the arrow next to a time to open its settings.
2. Under **Prefer notes tagged**, pick one or more tags.

The time now waits for a Note with any of those tags. Untagged Notes skip it. In the template and the queue, the time shows its tag colors.

## Untagged-only times [#untagged-only-times]

1. Open the time's settings and leave **Prefer notes tagged** empty.
2. Choose who can use it:
   - **Any note**: "Tagged or untagged notes can land here".
   - **Only untagged notes**: "Notes with a tag skip this time".

The routing rules and examples are on [Tags and slots](/docs/using/concepts/tags-and-slots). In the app, **How does it work** under a time's settings shows a short version.

If no time is open to every Note, the dialog warns you, for example: "Every time is reserved for tags. Untagged notes will have no open slot to land in."

## Default cross-post channels on a time [#default-cross-post-channels-on-a-time]

If you [cross-post with Buffer](/docs/using/cross-posting), a time's settings also show **Cross-post to**.

1. Open the time's settings.
2. Under **Cross-post to**, pick channels.

A Note that lands on this time uses these channels instead of the ones picked on the Note. It still posts to Substack. The channels are applied when a Note is scheduled onto the time. Changing them later doesn't change Notes already there.

## Timezone [#timezone]

Your template uses your account timezone. It shows at the bottom of the dialog as **Timezone:** followed by its name.

To change it, click it there, or go to **Settings → Account Information → Timezone**. WriteStack converts your existing times to the new timezone, so each time keeps posting at the same moment.

{/* TODO(orel): Changing timezone converts each slot's hour/minute but not its days. A slot that crosses midnight in the new timezone may land on the wrong weekday. Worth a warning? */}

## See also [#see-also]

- [Manage the queue](/docs/using/schedule/queue): put Notes on these times.
- [Tag a Note](/docs/using/notes/tags).