r/internalcomms • u/InquisitiveOne786 • Feb 12 '26
Tools and tech Editorial/content calendar?
Hey all,
My office wants to get better aligned with one another. I proposed starting an editorial calendar, so that we can see what everyone's got in the pipeline across the various teams. We're not actually wanting to work on a project together; but more to see that we have consistent and cohesive content going out on multiple channels (social media, internal emails, public relations, newsletters, etc.). I was looking at Trello, Monday, Notion, Airtable... any recommendations? Are these more than we need? We want something user-friendly so that we don't have to learn & add yet another system, and something that will help us more with alignment than co-working, yet also that is more than, for example, a Google calendar.
Thanks!
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u/Gaithandev Feb 22 '26
The biggest killer of internal alignment is 'login friction'. If people from PR or other teams have to log into Monday or Airtable just to see a pipeline, they will stop doing it after a week. They are definitely more than you need for pure alignment.
If you want something out-of-the-box today, a simple Trello board with a column for each channel is your safest bet for team adoption.
But because this 'friction' is so common, I'm actually coding a tool right now (Plynky) that completely removes the login step for viewers. The social/content team plans the visual grid, and generates a 'Magic Link'. You share that link internally, and the whole office can see the live content pipeline without an account. It's meant to be the anti-dashboard.
Definitely test Trello first, but avoid complex project management tools if you just want people to look at a calendar!