FeedPilot manual

Something you want covered. Without assignments, the bot picks from your subjects.

• ➕ Add — send a link, or a few words on what to cover, in one message. Then send a photo, or tap Skip and the bot finds pictures itself. The assignment goes into the next batch of drafts.

Tap an assignment to open it.

📝 Draft

• ▶ Post now — makes a draft of it right away. It arrives within a few minutes, for your approval.
• 📅 Pick a day — schedules it for the day you choose. Good for a topic that belongs to a date.

✏️ Edit

• ✏️ Text — changes the link or the words. Send them again in one message.
• 🖼 New photo — replaces its photo.

• 🗑 Delete — removes the assignment. A post already made from it stays in your channel.

Where the bot looks for news. Without sources, it searches your subjects on its own.

• ➕ Add — adds a source: a site or feed address, or a keyword search.
• 🔗 A site or feed address — send the address of a site or its feed. The bot checks it and says how many fresh entries it found. If it finds no feed there, try the site's RSS link.
• 🔍 A keyword search — send a few words, as you would type them into a search box. The bot runs the search before each batch of drafts.
• 🔄 Fetch now — reads your feeds straight away. They are also read before every run, so you only need this to see what is new right now.

Tap a source to open it:

• ⏸ Pause — leaves the source out for a while. It is not deleted.
• ▶ Resume — uses a paused source again.
• 🗑 Delete — removes the source.

Your regular themes, each with a number of posts a week. The bot fills the ones furthest behind first. Without beats, it picks freely within your subjects.

• ➕ Add — makes one of your subjects a beat, or lets you name your own. You set its number of posts a week on its card.
• ✏️ My own name — type a name for a new beat. For example: Weekly roundup, or Café review.

Tap a beat to open it:

• 🔢 Per week — how many posts a week this beat gets. The bot keeps count and brings forward the beats that are behind.
• ✏️ Rename — changes its name.
• ⏸ Pause — leaves the beat out for a while. Its settings are kept.
• ▶ Resume — brings a paused beat back.
• 🗑 Delete — removes the beat.

Words that must always be written the same way. Add the names, spellings and wording you prefer here.

• ➕ Add — asks for the word, then exactly how it should be written. Last, you can write a note for the bot, for example why, or when not to use it. No note? Tap Skip.

Tap an entry to open it:

• ✏️ Wording — changes how the word must be written. Every new post uses the new wording from then on.
• ✏️ Note — changes the note for the bot.
• 🗑 Delete — removes the entry. The bot then writes that word as it sees fit.

When drafts come, and how many. Tap a line to change it:

• 📆 Posts per day — how many drafts each day brings. More drafts means more to review, and you can drop any you do not want.
• 🕒 Posting time — when the drafts arrive, in your own time. Pick an hour, and the drafts are ready around then.
• ⏹ No daily run — stops the daily drafts. You can still make them from 📊 Today.
• 📅 Days — the days of the week that bring drafts. Tap a day to turn it on or off.
• 🌍 Timezone — the time zone you are in. The posting time follows it.
• ⏸ Pause posting — no new drafts until you tap ▶ Resume posting.

Who publishes, and when.

• Manual — nothing goes out until you tap 📤 Publish. The safest choice while you get to know the drafts.
• Veto — a draft publishes itself after 15, 30 or 60 minutes, unless you drop or edit it first. Each draft shows the time it will go out.
• Auto — drafts go out as soon as they are made. Choose it only once the drafts need no changes.

Extras on top of the normal posts. Tap one to turn it on or off:

• 🖼 Story cards — posts also come as Instagram story cards. Each story card arrives as a draft of its own.
• 📰 Weekly long read — once a week, a longer piece on the week's most important subject. It is the only post with a link preview. You pick its day.
• 🗞 Weekly roundup — once a week, a short recap of your own posts, in three to five lines. You pick its day.
• ✖ Turn off — stops that weekly format. Picking a day turns it on again.

The channels your approved posts go to. Every approved post goes to all of them at once.

• ➕ Telegram — connects a Telegram channel. First make the bot an administrator of your channel, with permission to post. Then forward any post from the channel to the bot, or send its @username.
• ➕ IG — connects a professional Instagram account. The bot sends a link: open it, log in to Instagram, and tap Allow. The link works once.
• ➕ Bale — connects a Bale channel. Make the bot an administrator there, then send the channel's @username.
• ➕ Another channel — adds a second channel on a platform you already use. The same approved posts go to it too.

Tap a connected channel to open it:

• ✏️ Change — connects a different channel in its place. The steps are the same as connecting.
• ✖ Remove — posts stop going there. The bot asks you to confirm, and you can connect it again any time.

Every post is written in each of these languages separately, never translated. The bot talks to you in the first one.

• ➕ Add a language — from the next batch, every post is written in it too. It is written on its own, not translated. Then connect a channel for it in 🔗 Platforms.

Tap a language to see its channels:

• ✖ Remove this language — no more posts are written in it. The bot asks whether its channels are disconnected too, or stay connected for later. The only language cannot be removed.

How your posts sound, and what they cover.

• Warm, Formal or Playful — the tone of every post. Tap one, and the next drafts use it.
• ✏️ Subjects — the fields your channel covers. Pick a field, tap what applies, then ✅ Done. The bot writes within these subjects.
• ✏️ About the channel — two or three sentences about the channel and who it is for. The bot uses them to write in your voice.

How your Instagram posts and stories look.

• 🖼 Post style, 📱 Story style — choose how posts or stories look, in one of the three ways below. Each shows the look it has now.
• 📤 Use my own picture — your picture becomes the background. Landscape suits posts, and portrait suits stories.
• ✨ Design it with me — describe a look and pick from samples, in up to two rounds. Name colours, pattern and mood, for example dark blue with soft, calm waves. In the last round, pick one of the six to finish.
• ↩️ Back to the default — brings back the first look, in your logo's colour.
• 🏷 Upload logo — your logo goes on every post and story, and sets the default colour of your cards. A square logo works best.

Where drafts arrive for review.

• 💬 Here in the bot — drafts arrive in this chat. It suits one or two channels.
• 📕 A private channel — drafts arrive in a private channel of your own. It suits a brand with more channels, or a team that reviews together. Make the bot an administrator there, with permission to post and edit, and the bot switches as soon as you do.

Either way, your settings stay here in the bot chat.

Where warnings go: when drafts could not be made, or a connection is about to expire.

• 🔔 Keep them here — alerts arrive in this chat, next to your drafts.
• To keep alerts apart from your drafts, send /alerts and follow its steps for a private channel.

All of these settings on one page in your browser. Tap 🌐 Web page, then Open. The link works once and keeps you signed in on that device for 30 days; ask for a new one any time. Videos bigger than 20 MB are uploaded there.

No new drafts are made until you tap ▶ Resume posting. Your products, settings and channels stay as they are.

Tell us what works and what does not — a fault, an idea, a question, or something you like. You tap your way to it, so most feedback needs no typing at all.

• 💬 Feedback — first what kind it is, then the area, then the exact thing.
• ✅ Send — sends it to us. Before that you may write a few words in your own language, and any picture you send while it is open is attached to it.
• 🖼 How to send a screenshot — what to send, and how, on one card.
• 🗂 What I sent — everything you have sent and where it stands: new, being looked at, done, or not planned.

Now and then we ask one short question with a row of numbers. Tap a number, and add a line with 💬 Add a word if you would like to.

A second, separate channel with its own subjects, sources and schedule. The bot asks for its languages and its name. You connect its platforms separately, and switch between your brands with /menu.