Queue slots
Define a posting schedule once, drop posts into the next free slot in one click. Per-network queues, blackout windows, weekly repeats.
A queue is a recurring posting schedule. Set it up at /app/settings/queue once, then the editor surfaces a one-click Use next queue slot button on every new post.
How queues work
A queue is a set of recurring slots — for example:
- Mon-Fri at 9:00am
- Mon-Wed-Fri at 5:00pm
- Sun at 11:00am
When you create a post and click Use next queue slot, Post Mate picks the next free time across that schedule. Once a slot is used, it's skipped for the next post. After the last defined slot, the queue wraps around to the next week.
Per-network queues
Different networks often want different cadences. LinkedIn likes 1 post per weekday at work hours; TikTok rewards 3+ posts per day at random times. So Post Mate lets you define a queue per network if you want.
By default, every network shares the same queue. You can override per network from the queue settings — your LinkedIn queue might be "Mon-Fri 9am" while your TikTok queue is "daily, every 4 hours."
Blackout windows
Sometimes you don't want a queue slot to fire — over Christmas, during a launch silence, during your vacation. Set a blackout window in queue settings: a date range when the queue skips all slots.
Posts scheduled into the blackout window get bumped to the next available slot after the blackout ends.
Editing the queue
You can change queue slots any time. Posts that were already scheduled to a specific slot stay scheduled to that timestamp; they don't move when you adjust the queue going forward.
To reschedule an existing post into the new queue, edit the post and click Use next queue slot again.
When the queue isn't enough
If the queue concept doesn't match your workflow — say you post based on news cycles rather than schedule — just use manual timestamps. The queue is optional; most accounts use it for steady content and manual timestamps for time-sensitive ones.