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Channel Planner

Channel Planner

Plan, produce, schedule, and track your channels' content in one board.

The Channel Planner (the Planner tab in the top navigation) is mission control for running one or many channels: capture ideas, move them through production, schedule posting slots, and track how published videos perform on YouTube.

The Channel Planner home with pipeline, video stats, and today's posting queue

Adding a channel

Add each channel you run with its YouTube handle (used for stats tracking), niche, a default video preset (so videos generated from this channel's ideas use your house style automatically), and a posting schedule — daily, working days, or specific days at a specific time.

Add New Channel form with handle, default preset, and posting schedule

Each channel then gets its own dashboard: live YouTube stats, a weekly schedule strip you can auto-fill, and its linked projects.

Channel dashboard with YouTube stats, weekly schedule, and projects

The pipeline board

Content moves across a kanban board: Ideas → Processing → Ready → Scheduled → Posted.

The video pipeline board with its five columns

Capture an idea with a title, short description, and priority — it lands in the Ideas column. From the card you can generate the video (using the channel's default preset), schedule it, or delete it.

Adding a video idea with title, description, and priority

An idea card with generate, schedule, and delete actions

Already keep a content calendar in Google Sheets? Import it as a CSV — a template with the expected columns is provided.

Import from Google Sheets modal with example CSV

Scheduling

Pick a calendar day and time slot for any video. A scheduled slot shows "Needs Video" until a finished video is attached to it — so you always see gaps before they become missed posting days.

Scheduling a video into a calendar slot

A scheduled card flagged "Needs Video"

The posting queue

Today's Posting Queue lists everything due to go out today. Expand an entry to copy the title, description, and tags (generated by the YouTube kit), open the channel, paste the published URL, and Mark Posted.

Today's posting queue with a pending entry

Expanded queue entry with copyable metadata and Mark Posted

Channel health and runway

The Channel Health table shows each channel's subscribers, videos, and views alongside your production state: ideas, ready videos, scheduled slots — and runway, how many days of content you have queued. A red Critical badge means you're out of ready videos.

Channel Health table with stats and runway status

YouTube stats tracking

The Planner also tracks real YouTube performance for your channels: the Video Stats Monitor collects view data on a schedule, and the stats grid ranks tracked videos with views-per-hour badges so you can spot which topics outperform — and feed that back into your next ideas.

Video Stats Monitor with collection runs and top videos

Tracked videos ranked by views with VPH badges

The fastest loop: spot a high-VPH topic in the stats grid → add a similar idea → generate with the channel preset → schedule it into the next open slot.

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