Posting slots and best times

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   1. Press the set's name in the top bar, then Manage social sets, and pick the set.

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   2. Open Scheduling.

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   3. Under Posting slots, tick the days for each time in the grid. Press the × at the end of a row to remove that time.

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   4. To add a time, type it in the field under the grid and press Add a time.

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   5. To start from the suggested times, press Prefill. It ticks exactly those cells, and Undo puts your week back.

Changes save as you make them, to Buzzmark and to the set's posting queue. Changing slots doesn't move posts that are already scheduled. Slots run on the set's time zone.

A set that never saved its own slots starts from a default week: weekdays at 12:00 and 17:00, and Saturday at 09:00. It has no posting queue until you save, so Next slot waits until then.

With natural posting times on, a Buzz goes out up to 4 minutes either side of the time you picked, so your posts don't all land on the hour. A post set for 15:00 might go out at 14:58 or 15:03.

Use natural posting times for new drafts in the set's Scheduling sets the default. Each Buzz can change it with the Natural posting time switch when you schedule it. A Buzz that takes the next slot always goes out on the slot's exact minute.

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   1. In the composer, press Schedule.

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   2. Press Next slot to take the next free slot in the set's posting queue, or press Pick slot and pick one of the set's slots in the next 2 weeks.

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   3. Press Schedule Buzz.

A Buzz on Next slot holds that slot: no other post can take it. Pick slot fills in that slot's day and time, like picking them by hand, and Edit slots beside the list opens the set's Scheduling. You can also pick a time under Best times in the same popover, or any day and time in the picker. Everything else about scheduling is on Schedule and post.

Buzzmark puts each of your published posts in a slot by weekday and hour, and scores the slot by the average engagement of its posts: likes, comments and saves, plus reposts or shares, whichever is higher. Your best times are the slots with the highest average.

On the set's slot grid they show as Your best times, on the set's clock, with how many posts they come from. Hover a suggested cell to see its average engagement a post. The same numbers feed Best times when you schedule, worked out for the accounts the Buzz goes to, Best times on the Calendar and in Analytics, and Best time today in Hive check. In Analytics, Your posting slots shows which of your strongest times your slots miss.

One lucky post would make a poor best time, so a set's own best times take over once it has 10 posts with likes or comments. Until then the grid shows Starter times: the hours each platform in the set is usually busiest. The line above the grid says how many of your posts count so far.

Prefill works the same way with starter times. Once your own best times take over, the grid marks those instead, and pressing Prefill again ticks them.