On the surface, creating a content calendar might seem like another task to check off your weekly to-dos. But when it comes time to bring it to life, it can suddenly feel really daunting.
Which tool should you use? How should you track your assets? Can you do everything all in one place?
Before you go down that rabbit hole, we’re here to tell you that you might already have the solution: ClickUp. Even though ClickUp is primarily used as a project management tool, it is capable of so much more, including a simplified content calendar.
So, instead of spending hours researching different content calendars, let’s build one inside ClickUp! Watch the video below for the step-by-step breakdown, or keep reading below!
To make your content calendar functional within ClickUp, you should use tasks like you normally do. Then, you can use statuses to know where anything is at any given time. We recommend including the following statuses:
To better track and filter all of your assets across platforms, create custom tags for each task. This will also help you track the types of assets you’re creating. Here are the tags we use inside ClickUp:
You can add as many as you need to stay on top of everything!
This is where your simple content calendar within ClickUp starts to take shape! In addition to the normal fields inside ClickUp – like assignee and due date – custom fields can house all the necessary information you need without juggling multiple tools and platforms. Custom fields also let you include every single detail of every single asset you’re tracking.
Here are the custom fields we recommend for your content calendar:
One of my favorite things about ClickUp? All the different views you can use to your advantage! And it’s no different inside your content calendar. Here are the views we add to ours:
To streamline your content calendar even more, you can use one of my other favorite features of ClickUp: automations! This essentially makes ClickUp do internal communication for you, eliminating a lot of manual work. Here’s an example of an automation we set up for our simplified content calendar:
Once the status of a task changes to ‘Ready for Review,’ it will automatically prompt another team member to review that task within a set number of days. That way, we don’t have to send emails or messages prompting someone to take the next step; it’s already in their queue!
If you’re ready to launch your content calendar like, yesterday, we have a ClickUp template bundle waiting for you!
Our Content Calendar ClickUp Template Bundle (say that 5 times fast) gives you instant access to everything you need to organize and run your content calendars inside ClickUp! You’ll get templates and workflows for managing:
And it’s waiting for you right now inside the Template Shop!
