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How to read the Blog overview: this cycle, by focus area

The Blog overview shows what this cycle has published, what is being written and what waits. It also shows how much of your article allowance is used.

Before you start

  • A blog strategy with at least one focus area and its article topics. Until you have one, the overview offers Build the strategy instead of a list.
  1. Click Blog in the sidebar. It opens on Overview, the first of its four tabs: Overview, Write, Published and Strategy.

    The Munshi home screen with Blog in the sidebar outlined in red.
  2. Published counts the finished articles. Writing now counts the ones in the writer, and Backlog the ones planned but not started. Focus areas counts the themes your articles are grouped under, with how many articles are planned.

    The four tiles at the top of the Blog overview: Published, Writing now, Backlog and Focus areas.
  3. Under This cycle's articles, each focus area has its own card with its articles inside. Click a focus area's name to fold its card shut. Click it again to open it.

    The card for the focus area Caring for wool so it lasts a lifetime, holding three articles.
  4. The line under each title says where the article stands. It reads Published with its date, Writing with the steps done so far, Planned, or Not started.

    Article rows in two focus areas, reading Published, Writing, Planned and Not started.
  5. This cycle's allowance says how many of your plan's SEO articles this cycle has used. The bar splits them into published, writing and planned. The end of the line says when the allowance resets.

    The This cycle's allowance card with its bar and the counts of published, writing and planned articles.
  6. Click any row to open that article in the writer. An article still being written opens on its steps. A finished one opens ready to read.

    The article Choosing Your First Wool Blanket: A Buyer's Guide open in the writer, with its ten steps listed down the left.

Where you are now

You can see at a glance what this cycle has produced, what is in progress and what is waiting. You can see how much allowance is left, and every article is one click away.

If something goes wrong

“No articles planned yet”

Click Build the strategy. The workspace has no focus areas with articles yet. Strategy is where you make focus areas and their article topics.

“This cycle's articles did not load”

Click Try again and the articles list again. The list could not be read just then, and nothing was lost.

A topic reads Not started and is not counted in Backlog

This is expected. Backlog counts only articles already planned for the blog. A topic with no blog article yet reads Not started and stays out of that count.

“We could not read your plan's allowance just now.”

Reload the page in a moment. Munshi could not read your plan, so the card leaves the number out instead of guessing. Your articles are not affected.

Try it on your own brand this week.

Munshi Social, the AI content marketing engine for small teams, plans, writes, publishes, and tracks your blog and socials. The guide above shows the real app, not a mock-up.

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