How a piece moves: Help

Idea, draft, ready, scheduled, posted: how one piece of writing moves through its stages, keeps its whole history, and can always go back a step.

A piece of writing is one thing with one history, moving through stages:

Idea: raw text you captured. Lives on the Ideas board.
Draft: you’ve started working it with the coach.
Ready: finished, waiting for its day.
Scheduled: finished, with a day and a time, and we will post it then.
Posted: it went out, either because we published it or because you told us you did.

There are no separate “ideas” and “posts” to keep in sync. Working an idea moves that same piece forward; it does not copy it somewhere else.

Its whole history stays

Every coach conversation about a piece stays attached to it. Reopen it a month later and the thread is right there, including after it’s been posted.

Scheduled is a locked stage

A piece only reaches Scheduled by you asking for a time in the send-off, and while it is there nothing can change it: not the words, not the topic, not the stage, and it cannot be deleted. That is what makes the schedule trustworthy. One press calls it off, which puts it back in Ready and leaves the date behind as a plan on the team calendar.

If the publish does not work, the piece comes back to Ready by itself with your words untouched, and you get a note saying why.

Going backwards is fine

A ready piece can move back to drafts. A draft that isn’t going anywhere can drop back to a raw idea. Even marking something posted is reversible: “Not actually posted” puts the piece back in Ready and clears the publishing facts, for the common case where you ticked it and then didn’t publish after all.

What that cannot undo is a post that really went out. Putting the piece back here changes your records, not LinkedIn.