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Realising a guide was needed on this from Fuchxia's forum question. This guide is intended to answer on the question of scheduled releasing. There are two methods: Automated Scheduling & Manual Release.
If you're not to familiar with Inkstone, visit the Official Guide that can be found at this link Welcome Newbie Writers.
Automated Scheduling
Inkstone has the ability for a chapter to be released on a timer. How to do this?
Open the book you want to write in.
1. Create a chapter and click the [Publish] blue button top-right of screen when you're ready to share the chapter to the world.
2. Click on the Published radio-switch button to turn it to blue when you receive the Confirm Publishment screen. The date fields will become active.
3. Click on the date to open the "Date Picker" menu and select a date you want the chapter to be released on.
NB: light grey values aren't selectable. Date in blue is the one picked. Once you pick a date from the black values the pop-up box will disappear and the date will show on the "date field". If you want a different month to select from, click the "<" or ">" arrows next to the month name and select a date value (in black) there.
4. Click on the Time field and perform the same as Step 3 to select the time to release. This would be time according to Hong Kong timezone I believe or that of the site not your local PC time.
5. Click on the [Confirm] blue button, bottom-right, of the publish screen when ready to set the change.
This is how you schedule a chapter on later release. You can do this a number of times, but a word of advice is to keep note if release bulk chapters this way as scheduled date/times don't appear on the chapter dashboards. So, the only way to double check is go into the post and the motions of publishing to see the date/time of schedule release.
How to Schedule Release Manually?
This way is if you chose to release once you've completed edits you're happy with or have to save and come back to make more inputs/changes before release. There are many reasons for manual releasing.
1. You go through the motions of creating a chapter and click the [Save] button rather than the publish option.
The Save button will flash with three dots [...] and then the "Chapter Saved!" blue label will briefly appear.
2. To exit out without publishing, click on the book title top-left of the chapter page (e.g ←Zaldizko) to return to the chapter dashboard and drafts section.
You can continue to stockpile drafts this way as drafts are sorted in date/time order with the latest created one at the top.
3. When ready to release, publish the chapters as per normal; taking from the bottom one (oldest created chapter) first and working way to top.
