How to Schedule Your Newsletter: Daily, Twice a Week, or Once a Month
Every schedule lives on the newsletter's own card in your Control Center. Here is each option, with pictures: specific days, every so many days, once or twice a month, and snooze.
Short version: every schedule lives on the newsletter's own card in your Newsletter Control Center. Set the delivery time in the top right, pick one of the four patterns underneath it, and click Save Feed Settings. That is the whole job, and it takes about fifteen seconds.
The four patterns cover almost anything you would want: specific days of the week, every so many days, once or twice a month, or paused for a while. Here is what each one looks like and when to reach for it.
Where the schedule controls live
Log in and open your Control Center. Each newsletter you subscribe to gets its own card. If a card is collapsed, click it to open it up. Everything below happens inside that one card.
- 1 The name. Click it and type to rename the newsletter. Handy when you run several.
- 2 Delivery Time. The time of day this newsletter lands, in your own time zone.
- 3 The four patterns. Only one can be active. Pick one and the other three grey themselves out.
- 4 Save Feed Settings. Nothing you change takes effect until you click this.
Step 1: set the delivery time
The Delivery Time box in the top right corner sets the hour and minute. It reads in your account time zone, so if you set 6:30 AM you get it at 6:30 AM where you are, not where our servers are. Time zone is set once in Account Settings and applies everywhere.
One thing worth knowing: the sender runs on a short cycle, so an edition lands within roughly ten minutes of the time you picked rather than to the exact second. Set 7:00 AM and it shows up somewhere in the 6:50 to 7:10 window.
Step 2: pick one of the four patterns
Specific Days
This is the one most people want. Seven buttons, Monday through Sunday. Dark blue means on, white means off. Tap a day to flip it.
Every day: light up all seven.
Weekdays only: the most popular setup by a mile. Monday through Friday on, Saturday and Sunday off, so your weekend inbox stays quiet.
Twice a week: pick any two days. Tuesday and Thursday spaces things out nicely. Monday and Friday works if you like a start-of-week and end-of-week rhythm.
Once a week: same idea, just one day selected. A Sunday-only edition makes a good weekend read.
Interval Skipping
Use this when you think in gaps rather than weekdays. Set any number from 1 to 30 and the newsletter arrives that many days apart.
The gap is measured from the last edition you received, not from a fixed calendar date. So an every-3-days newsletter walks around the week instead of landing on the same weekday. That is exactly what you want for a slow-moving topic, and exactly what you do not want if you are trying to hit a particular day. Use Specific Days for that.
Monthly Schedule
Two dropdowns. The first says how often, the second says which dates.
The date box is the one that actually drives delivery, so make the two match. If you want two editions a month, choose 1st & 15th in the second dropdown. The other choices are 1st, 15th, and Last Day, and Last Day correctly follows the length of each month, so it lands on the 28th, 30th, or 31st as appropriate.
Snooze Feed
Going on vacation, or just want a break without unsubscribing? Snooze pauses the newsletter for a set stretch, then brings it back on its own with every setting exactly as you left it.
Set a number and a unit of days, weeks, or months. The card then shows a Paused badge with the date it wakes up, so you always know when to expect it again. You keep your slot the whole time, and nothing is lost.
Snooze is the right tool when you want the newsletter back later. If you are done with one for good, use Stop Newsletter at the bottom of the card instead, which frees the slot for something else.
Step 3: save
Click Save Feed Settings. Until you do, nothing you touched has actually changed.
One guardrail to know about: each newsletter accepts three schedule changes per 24 hours. The counter starts with your first change and clears 24 hours later. It is there so a stuck browser tab cannot rewrite your schedule in a loop, and in normal use you will never bump into it. If you do, the card tells you exactly when you can edit again.
Common setups, at a glance
| What you want | Pattern | Settings |
|---|---|---|
| News with morning coffee, every day | Specific Days | All seven days, 6:30 AM |
| Work reading, weekends off | Specific Days | MO to FR, 8:00 AM |
| A midweek and an end-of-week check-in | Specific Days | TU and TH, 12:00 PM |
| One relaxed weekend read | Specific Days | SU only, 9:00 AM |
| A slow topic you do not need often | Interval Skipping | Every 10 days |
| A monthly roundup | Monthly Schedule | Once a Month, Last Day |
| Two editions a month | Monthly Schedule | Twice a Month, 1st & 15th |
| Two weeks off, then back to normal | Snooze Feed | 2 Weeks |
Two habits that make schedules stick
Match the cadence to the topic, not to your enthusiasm. Daily feels great on signup day and heavy by week three. A topic that genuinely changes daily earns a daily slot. Most do not. Starting at three days a week and moving up is far easier than the other direction.
Give each newsletter its own time slot. If you run several, stagger them instead of stacking them all at 8:00 AM. A 6:30 news brief and a 12:00 lunchtime digest get read. Four emails landing together get archived as a batch.
If you are still setting up your first one, the walkthrough covers creating a newsletter from scratch, and the FAQ answers the questions that come up most.
Your inbox, on your clock
The whole point of scheduling is that you decide when to be interrupted. Pick a rhythm you will actually keep, save it, and let it run. Change it whenever the rhythm stops fitting, because it takes about fifteen seconds and it is your inbox.
Quick answers
How do I get my newsletter on weekdays but not weekends?
Choose Specific Days, then switch on Monday through Friday and leave Saturday and Sunday off. Click Save Feed Settings and the weekend sends stop.
Can I pause a newsletter without losing my settings?
Yes. Use Snooze Feed, set a number of days, weeks, or months, and save. The newsletter stops sending, keeps your slot, and resumes automatically on the date shown on the card with every setting unchanged.
Why did my newsletter arrive a few minutes after the time I set?
The sender runs on a short repeating cycle, so an edition lands within roughly ten minutes of your chosen time rather than to the exact second.
How many times can I change a newsletter's schedule?
Three changes per newsletter per 24 hours. The counter starts with your first change and clears 24 hours later, and the card tells you when editing resumes if you reach the limit.
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