Newsletter issue planner
Predictable cadence. Three surfaces, one workflow.
Issues
Use the Issues surface. Columns: title, send date, theme, status (planning / drafting / ready / sent).
Drafts
One section per upcoming issue. The actual writing happens here.
Issue: [title] · [send date]
Tags: [theme]
Draft below.
Idea bank
Use the Idea bank surface. Columns: idea, theme, source, status (raw / drafted / shipped).
Fragments land here. When you're planning the next issue, you pull from this table.
Cadence
- Weekly: review idea bank, slot 1-3 ideas into upcoming issues.
- 48h before send: draft locked.
- Send day: Flint marks the issue "sent" on the webhook.
- Day after: review what landed, what didn't, update idea bank.