Social Media Post Planner, Free to Print

One page, seven days, three lines per day. This social media post planner is a free printable for the weekly version of posting: write the topic, the format, and the time for every day before the week starts, keep a small table for how your content splits across buckets, and leave yourself three lines of notes. It is a paper grid for deciding what goes out when, and it works before any tool or template enters the picture. If you want ready-made post designs to fill the topics with, the social media templates pack covered below supplies 40 of them.

Fits A4 and US Letter at 100%. Grayscale prints fine.

Why the three rows are topic, format, and time

Most weeks fail on one of the three. The topic row catches the post that never got an idea, because a cell you can't fill on Sunday is a post you won't have on Thursday. The format row catches the post that had an idea but no shape: "announcement" and "quote card" are formats, "something" is not. The time row catches the post that sat in drafts until the day was over. Writing the time down turns "I'll post today" into a plan you either did or didn't keep, which is a fact worth seeing on paper.

The four-bucket mix, and why the split is write-in

The bucket table has four rows: educational, product, community, and fun. Each row gets two write-ins: how many posts that bucket gets this week, and which days they land on. The split is yours to decide, and that is deliberate. A meme-heavy product account and a documentation-heavy developer account should not share a ratio, so the sheet ships with empty cells instead of a prescriptive percentage. The mix becomes visible once you write it: a week where the product row says 5 and the other three rows say 0 looks exactly like what it is. If you also want the month view, the monthly content calendar template carries the same idea across twelve weeks, and the social media banner sizes guide covers the image-dimension side.

Four posting habits

Opinions from keeping grids like this one, take or leave:

1. Post at the same time every day. Opinion: a fixed time makes the habit easier to keep and the time row easier to fill, since you write it once and it stays true. Whether any particular hour performs better is something you can test yourself; the sheet just holds the answer you observe.
2. Fill the whole grid in one sitting. Opinion: seven topics decided at once feed off each other, and one sitting means the week's plan is done before Monday. Deciding topics one morning at a time is how the format row ends up blank.
3. Keep a source note under stat posts. Opinion: when the format is a stat card, the source line at the bottom is part of the post. It reads as care, and readers who can check the number come back to the next one.
4. Mark the cells you didn't post. Opinion: an empty topic cell and a filled one you skipped are different failures, and the notes box is where the difference gets recorded. Three skipped weeks in a row is a scheduling problem, and the paper shows it before you feel it.

What this page does not do

It plans posts; it predicts nothing. There is no guidance here about how any platform ranks or distributes content, no promised posting hour, and no claim about what any grid does for follower counts. Those are platform-side systems the sheet never touches. What it does do is make the week's posting decisions once, on one page, so the rest of the week is execution. When the topics are planned and the formats repeat weekly, finished post designs remove the production step: the pack below ships 40 of them with the placeholders already marked.

30 square PNGs (1080×1080 for Instagram, X, LinkedIn feeds) + 10 wide link cards (1200×675). Dark theme, three accent colors, [bracket] placeholders, edit free in Canva, Figma, or Paint. Personal + commercial license.