My name is Deeann D. Mathews, and I am one of Hive's seven-day rollers – you can find content from me each and every day, 14-21 high-quality posts per week. So, am I sitting here hour after hour, seven days a week, doing irreversible eye, back, and psychological damage in pursuit of that seven-day roller life on Hive?
Of course not. I am a Peakd user. We PeakD bees are not about that aspect of the life over here. We have tools for maximum output combined with maximum freedom, and I'll show you two of them in this post!
Maximum Production and Freedom Function No. 1: Scheduling
When you get to the PeakD front page – or any page on the platform – you'll notice the little pencil icon to the right side of the page next to the notification bell. Inside of that are freedom options! The first one is of course “Create a Post,” but notice the three options available under that! Today we are going to deal with scheduling and drafting and how to use those together to produce powerfully but also, not burn out!
In order to schedule a post, you begin by setting your post up as usual – get it the way you want it, and then look down at the lower right-hand corner for the green “Schedule” button.
If you have unclaimed rewards, you may need to click off that little blue box to see this button, but, once you see the green button, click it, and a new option screen will come up.
Now, you can enter a time for your post to come out, and also, PeakD allows you to schedule your post on any day within 30 days of the day you are on.
Also PLEASE NOTE; the Peakd scheduler uses 24-hour or military time, so remember that 1:00pm is 13:00, 4:00pm is 16:00, 6:00pm is 18:00, and so forth. So, if you want to beat the rush and schedule something just a bit before, say, 6:00pm, you'll end up doing this for 5:58pm:
When I realized I could get up early in the morning – or sit up late when it is quiet at night – and schedule a whole day or week of work ahead of time, I realized what I had on PeakD. To be able to decide when to work also means you can decide when not to work as well. So, if I wanted to catch a run of beautiful mornings in the park, or just catch a few more hours of sleep, or leave my computer off for an entire day, I could do it.
The ability to schedule work also unlocks another, more subtle opportunity: experimenting with different times to publish in order to meet your target audience when its members are most likely to be on the platform. I may roll for seven days of the week on Hive, but what I can't do is roll around the clock every day – and I don't have to, because the PeakD scheduler can do the heavy lifting for me.
Once you have scheduled your post, PeakD will take you to your scheduled posts box, where you can see how many hours or days it is before your post publishes on the platform. If you think of something you want to add, or you realize that you have miscalculated on the time, you can always hit “Revert to Draft” and then go back up to the little pencil icon and hit “View Drafts” to go adjust your post some more.
Speaking of that “View Drafts” button...
Maximum Production and Freedom Function No. 2: Drafting
While you are working on your posts in PeakD, it is auto-saving them frequently to your draft box, so it is nearly impossible to lose your work in PeakD. That's a good thing all by itself, and unlocks another powerful possibility for you.
Say you have a lot of extra time one day, enough so that you can put some evergreen content together – a short story, some art, some photography, a video of you making music, a family story that imparts wisdom to others, a collection – but you've already done or scheduled what you intend to do for that day or week.
Suppose you just leave such posts in drafts for that day, or that week, or that month – and then, life happens and you don't have time or energy to create a post that day or that week.
How much extra freedom does it give you to know that you can go into your draft box, get your posts, publish or schedule them, and go about your business?
Hive, like any well-run system that provides the possibility of rewards to a collective of people, favors those who can show consistency of activity. However, no one is inspired every day. We're human, not machines – we need time without the pressure of needing to produce. While the PeakD scheduling tool gives you a month to plan things out, using your drafts box to hold evergreen content covers you whenever you want it – there's no limit to how long you can hold ready content in the drafts box.
On PeakD, Burnout Is Just An Avoidable Option...
In our society, burnout is common. We often are led to forget that we humans are at our best when we make time to get refreshed, enjoy positive recreation, and then bring that energy back to our production. PeakD literally fixes this societal problem for creatives on Hive with its scheduling and draft functions. You do not need to be sitting at the computer seven days – or five days – or any number of days that is too much for you – in order to keep up consistent activity on Hive. PeakD allows you maximum production and maximum freedom at the same time through its scheduling and drafts functions. Give them a try -- and enjoy the freedom!