Templates, collections and media
Library holds what you reuse: Templates to start a post from, Collections for anything you want to keep, Media for your pictures, and Written by Buzz.
A template is a post with its gaps left open. Fill them in yourself, or let Buzz fill them from your Hive in one press.
Media keeps every picture you upload or Buzz makes, and Make a picture adds one from a few words.
Find your way in Library
Open Library in the menu, or press y. Its pages are in the sidebar: Templates, Collections with each of your collections under it, Media and Written by Buzz (Ideas and the Library). Search and filters sit at the top of each page.
Start a post from a template
1. Open Templates. Hot now shows the days coming up in the next 3 weeks, and Picked for you shows templates for your kind of business, read from your Hive profile.
2. Press See all to open every template by theme, or search and pick a theme at the top.
3. Press Use to put the template in a new Buzz. Replace each part in double braces, like
{{dish}}, with your own words.4. Or press Write with Buzz. Create opens with the template and Buzz fills the gaps from your Hive. The answer is kept in Written by Buzz and counts as 1 Buzz.
On a day under Hot now, Plan it opens a new Buzz scheduled for that day, and Write with Buzz has Buzz write about it in your voice.
Make your own templates
1. Press New template on the Templates page, or Save as template in the composer's … menu to start from the post you're writing.
2. Give it a name and, if you like, a theme.
3. Write the post, with double braces round what changes each time, and press Save template.
Your templates are under Your templates, with Edit and Delete on each.
Keep things in collections
1. Press the bookmark on a post (in the post panel from the Calendar or Analytics), on one of Buzz's takes, or on a picture in Media. In the composer it's Keep in a collection in the … menu, once the draft has saved.
2. Tick the collections to keep it in, or press New collection, name it, pick a colour and press Save.
3. Open Collections to see them. A post opens in the post panel, a draft in the composer, a take in Written by Buzz, a picture larger.
A kept thing shows as it is today, so a draft you edit stays current. Take out removes it from that collection only, and deleting a collection leaves everything in it where it was.
Make and reuse pictures
1. Open Media. Under Make a picture, describe the picture, pick Square, Portrait or Tall, and press Make it. It lands in Media in your Hive's colours and counts as 1 picture (Pictures and video).
2. Press Upload to add your own JPEG, PNG or WebP pictures.
3. On a picture, Start a Buzz opens a new Buzz with it, and Write with Buzz has Buzz write a post around it (Write around your own picture).
Delete asks for a second press. A picture a draft or a scheduled post still uses can't be deleted until it's taken out of them, so nothing fails at its time.
Questions
Does Use or Write with Buzz post anything?
No. Use opens a new Buzz and Write with Buzz writes a take in Create. Nothing goes out until you schedule it or post it.
Can my team see my collections and templates?
Yes. Collections and your own templates belong to your organisation, so everyone on your team sees and uses the same ones.
Where to next
- Ideas and the Library
Ideas is where Buzz writes new posts with you in your Hive voice: from an idea of your own, from 3 questions Buzz asks to find one, or around a picture you already have.
- The composer
The composer is where you write a Buzz: one post, or a thread on X and Threads, going to one or more of your accounts.
- Pictures and video
A Buzz takes JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF pictures up to 10 MB and MP4 or MOV video up to 1 GB, and a video always goes out on its own.
- Calendar
The Calendar shows every post on your connected accounts in one timeline: what went out, from Buzzmark or straight on the platform, and every Buzz that's scheduled.