Editorial Calendar Planner: dates for every brief, draft and edit
Turn a topic list into dated briefs, drafts, edits and publish dates, with Indian festivals beside them.
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Add your topics to see the calendar
Each piece's brief, draft, edit and publish dates appear here week by week, with a load check per writer and the festivals in those weeks.
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About the Editorial Calendar Planner
Paste your topic list, add your writers, how many pieces go live each week and how many working days each step takes. The planner gives every piece a brief, draft, edit and publish date, week by week, checks that no writer has more drafts due in a week than they can do, and shows the Indian festivals, holidays and deadlines in the same weeks. Tick each step as it is done. It runs in your browser with fixed rules, not AI: the plan and the ticks are saved only there, and you can take them away as a CSV, a calendar file or a printout.
How it works
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Paste your topics, one per line, with a writer, type and priority if you have them, and list your writers with how many pieces a week each can draft.
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Choose the start date, pieces a week, working days and the working days each step takes, then your state and any days off.
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Read the plan week by week and the checks, tick steps as they are done, and download the CSV or the calendar file, or print it.
How the dates are worked out
Each piece goes live on a publish day, spread through your working week unless you pick the days. Its steps are counted back from that day in working days, skipping your days off: publish, then edit, draft and brief. High-priority pieces get the first dates; within a priority, pieces that name an upcoming festival or occasion come first, earliest first, then the rest in your order. Pieces with no writer go to the writer with the most room that week. These rules are our suggestion, not a standard.
Where the festival dates come from
The festivals, holidays and deadlines are the ones in our Seasonal Content Calendar: the Government of India holiday lists for 2026 and 2027, Drik Panchang for Hindu festival dates, IMD for the monsoon, and NTA, CBSE and the Income Tax Department for exam and tax dates. Each date is marked as fixed, changing every year, depending on the moon, estimated or a season, so you know which ones to check again. Our data runs until 31 December 2027.
What this tool cannot do
It does not know how long your writers really take or whether a topic is worth writing: the dates and the load check use only the numbers you give it. It does not connect to Google Calendar, your website or a team board, and ticks stay in the browser where you made them, so share the CSV or the calendar file with your team. It does not suggest topics; the Content Brief Builder and the Seasonal Content Calendar help with that.
Frequently asked questions
What is an editorial calendar?
An editorial calendar is a dated plan of what you will publish and when, with who writes each piece and when each step is due. It keeps a small team on time for festivals and launches, and shows early when one writer has too much work.
How many articles should I publish a week?
As many as your team can write well and keep up. Google's guidance on helpful content lists producing lots of content on many different topics, in the hope that some of it performs well in search, as a warning sign, and says adding a lot of new content to make a site seem fresh will not help its rankings. Start with a pace you can keep for months; the load check shows when it is too much.
How do I add the plan to my calendar?
Click "Add to calendar (.ics)" to download a calendar file with one all-day event on each publish date and a reminder at 9 am the day before. Import it into your calendar app, such as Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. The file does not change when you change the plan here, so download it again after big changes.
Are the festival dates exact?
Fixed dates such as Republic Day are. Hindu festivals move every year and some calendars give a different day, so the tool marks them "changes every year"; Eid depends on the sighting of the moon; exam and school dates are estimates until the official notice is out. Check your local panchang or the official notice before you fix a campaign date.
Where are my ticks saved?
Only in this browser on this device; nothing is uploaded. If you clear your browser data or open the tool on another device, they are not there. To share progress, download the CSV, which has each piece's status, or copy the plan as text.
Sources and checks
Rules last checked
The Editorial Calendar Planner follows these official pages:
- Department of Personnel and Training (dopt.gov.in)
- Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content (developers.google.com)
Festival and holiday dates come from our Seasonal Content Calendar data, which uses the Government of India holiday lists; the scheduling rules are our suggestion.
Scores, limits and suggestions marked "our checklist", "our measure" or "our suggestion" are ours, not Google's or the platform's. How our tools work
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