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Content Butler — drag-and-drop calendar for what to film next
Schedule the products you want to shoot on a Monthly / Weekly / Daily calendar. Drag from Orders Butler or add manually, tag by content type, and never lose track of what's coming up.
What Content Butler does
Most creators have a backlog of products they've earmarked to film but no system for when to film them. Content Butler is the scheduling layer: a Monthly/Weekly/Daily calendar where each entry is a product (ASIN + title + notes) parked on a specific day. Drag products from a sidebar onto a date and they appear on the calendar; click any entry to edit or remove.
It pulls products from Orders Butler automatically (everything you've bought is a candidate) and you can also add products manually for stuff that didn't come through your purchase history.
Before you start
- (Optional) Orders Butler synced — gives you a populated product sidebar to drag from.
- Otherwise, nothing — Content Butler works fully manually if you prefer.
Three views
The view toggle at the top switches between three cadences:
- Monthly (default) — full month grid. Best for "what's the month look like?" planning. Each day cell fits 3-5 entries before showing a "+N more" overflow.
- Weekly — 7-day strip view. Best for "what am I shooting this week?" Tighter than monthly, with more room per day.
- Daily — single-day deep view. Best when you have multiple shoots per day and want to see each entry's full notes.
Use Monthly for planning, Weekly for committing, Daily for executing.
Adding products
Two paths:
- Drag from the sidebar — the right-side panel lists your Orders Butler products. Use the search to filter by ASIN or title, drag a product card onto a calendar day. It snaps onto the date.
- Quick-add via the form — type a product title + ASIN + notes manually. Useful for products you bought outside Amazon, samples, or stuff you found on competitor storefronts.
Each entry on the calendar shows the product title (truncated) + a tag chip. Click the entry to open a popover with full notes, ASIN, and edit/delete buttons.
Tags
The right-side tag shelf has draggable workflow tags: "Reel", "Photo set", "Story", "Live", "Voiceover only", etc. Drag a tag onto an entry to layer in content-type metadata. Each entry can have multiple tags.
Tags also drive filtering — the calendar filter bar lets you show only entries with specific tags. Useful for "what reels am I doing this month?" or "what voiceover-only spots do I have queued?"
Tuning over time
- Tag vocabulary — keep it small (5-8 tags max). The shelf is editable in settings; resist the temptation to over-categorize.
- Quick-add cadence — block 15 minutes a week to populate next week's calendar. Don't try to plan a month ahead in one sitting; that calendar always changes.
- Notes field — short, factual. "Show before/after on the kitchen counter" reads better than vague aspirational notes.
Where the data goes
Calendar state lives in the preseed cache. It's included in the app's backup flow, so a backup-restore brings the calendar back as expected.
Common gotchas
- Drag doesn't drop — make sure you're dropping inside the day-cell, not the gap between cells. Monthly view has thinner cells than Weekly; if drops aren't registering, try Weekly view for the same range.
- Sidebar is empty — Orders Butler hasn't synced yet. Run Orders Butler once and refresh Content Butler.
- Delete All is irreversible — there's an "Are you sure" prompt, but no undo after. Export via the app-level backup before any large cleanup.
- Calendar doesn't reflect a recently-added Order Butler product — Content Butler caches the sidebar list. Click the search bar's clear button to force a refresh.
Related
- Orders Butler tutorial — populates the draggable sidebar.
- Collab Butler tutorial — for tracking brand-paid shoots (Content Butler tracks all shoots regardless of monetization).
- Voiceover Butler tutorial — generates scripts for the products on your calendar.