Publish when readers are free
You may write at midnight, but your readers are on the morning commute or the lunch break. Send the story out when they can actually read it.
Finish a story when you have the time, then choose the moment it goes out. Publisha publishes it within a minute of the time you picked, whether you're online, travelling or asleep.
Up to 14 days ahead · Your own time zone
In the editor, the arrow beside Publish opens the save options: publish now, save as a draft, or schedule.
Scheduling separates two things that rarely line up: when you have time to write, and when your readers have time to read.
You may write at midnight, but your readers are on the morning commute or the lunch break. Send the story out when they can actually read it.
Write three stories on a Sunday and let one go out every few days. Your profile looks active even in the weeks you're busy.
Schedule tonight's story for tomorrow morning. You still have the night to reread it and change anything before it goes live.
Have a piece ready for Budget day, results day or the start of a festival, and set it to appear the moment people start searching.
Line up part one for Monday and part two for Thursday, so readers who finish one find the next waiting.
A story every Tuesday at 9 am is a habit readers can form. Scheduling keeps the rhythm going when life gets in the way.
How it works
Write it in the editor and complete the checklist: a headline, cover image, category, summary and at least 300 words.
Click the arrow beside the Publish button, at the top of the editor.
The picker opens one hour from now. Any date and time in the next 14 days is open.
Choose when the story should appear. Times are in your own time zone.
The story waits in your Stories list marked Scheduled, and publishes itself at that time.
Your queue
A scheduled story is still yours to work on. It waits in the Stories list with its go-live time until the moment it publishes.
Timing
There is no single best time, whatever the charts on the internet say. The right hour depends on who your readers are and what their day looks like. A student audience and a room full of founders read at very different times.
Start with a sensible guess. For readers in India, early morning and the evening after work are good starting points, and weekday mornings suit professional topics. Then test it: for a month, schedule similar stories at different times and compare the views on each in your dashboard a week later.
Keep one thing in mind. Timing matters most for the first day, when people find your story through shares in WhatsApp groups, on LinkedIn and through your followers. Readers who arrive from search come whenever they have the question, so for them the article itself matters far more than the hour it went out.
Any date and time in the next two weeks. For later dates, keep the story as a draft and schedule it nearer the time.
Publisha checks for stories that are due every 30 seconds, so yours appears within a minute of the time you chose.
A scheduled story needs the full checklist, including at least 300 words. If its AI score is high, the editor asks once before queueing it.
Scheduled stories use your plan's publishing allowance for the day they appear, the same as stories you publish straight away.
Questions
Yes. In the editor, open the arrow beside the publish button, choose Schedule, and pick a date and time up to 14 days ahead. Publisha publishes the story automatically at that time. Until then you can keep editing it, publish it early, or move it back to a draft.
Keep exploring
Scheduling is free on every plan, along with version history, the SEO checklist and your own author page.
No credit card · Free to start · Schedule up to 14 days ahead