# Manuscripts, packages, and publishing

> Tell master drafts apart from per-platform packages, edit text, save to your computer, pick up images and copy by scanning with your phone, and manage published marks.

- Source: https://getbeav.com/en/docs/workspace/drafts-and-publishing

Checked 2026-10-07. Applies to Beav desktop 2.8.13.

## Master drafts and packages

* **Master draft**: the body of a piece of content (Markdown), which you can keep revising.
* **Package**: a ready-to-publish deliverable for one platform, such as a Xiaohongshu (RedNote) image post package (title, caption, tags, and all images), a WeChat Official Account article package, or a voiceover production package. One master draft can have packages for several platforms.

When you ask AI to "write a Xiaohongshu post" or "make it a Xiaohongshu image post", you get a complete image post package by default. If you only want to see the copy, a plan, or two trial images first, just say so. Packages have no image limit; Xiaohongshu post text is limited to 1,000 characters.

Development update, October 16, 2026: ordinary teaching and illustrative images can use existing material without finding a real institution's sample or repeating online checks. Additional research is reserved for an explicitly requested real subject or a missing fact that would change the content's conclusion. This prompt update is unreleased and awaits testing in a real creation session.

![A Xiaohongshu carousel package card in the chat, showing the cover, title and the Xiaohongshu note type, with a summary below](https://getbeav.com/screenshots/xiaohongshu-carousel-complete-result-2026-09-25.png)

*Ask the AI for a Xiaohongshu carousel and a complete package card appears in the chat. Click it to preview every image and the caption.*

## Where to find manuscripts

* **Account profile → Manuscripts** on the left: the manuscripts in the current space. A master draft that already has packages is shown through its packages.
* The **Manuscripts** tab in the workspace on the right side of a chat: shows **Ready to publish** by default, with **This chat**, **Published**, and **All** also available. Master drafts appear only under **All**, labeled **Master**.
* **Recent output** on the home page: packages that have been packaged and are ready to publish.

On the manuscripts page you can search, switch between **Gallery** and **Timeline**, and create folders to sort them. For how to organize folders, see [Organize knowledge, assets, and manuscripts](https://getbeav.com/en/docs/workflows/file-management#manuscript-views-and-folders).

![The Manuscripts tab in the chat workspace set to All, showing master drafts and Xiaohongshu, WeChat and voiceover packages in gallery view with their status](https://getbeav.com/screenshots/manuscripts-library-en-2026-10-07.webp)

*Switch the Manuscripts tab in the right workspace to All to see master drafts and every platform package together.*

## Edit manuscripts and packages

Open a master draft on the right and click **Edit manuscript** to change and save the original. Open a package and click **Edit text** to change its title and platform text: for Xiaohongshu you can also edit tags, and WeChat Official Account text uses a rich-text editor. Saving updates the current package; it does not create a separate version. The same applies when you ask the AI to revise a package: it changes only the title, text, tags or images you mention and saves back to the same package with the save time, instead of creating a new package for every edit (requires a newer Beav build).

You can also keep asking for changes in the chat, for example "only change page two", "swap the order of these two pages", or "keep the existing images and continue with the remaining pages". AI edits the same package, and images that have not changed are not regenerated.

![Xiaohongshu package details with View master, Edit text, Mark published and Publish buttons above the cover and caption preview](https://getbeav.com/screenshots/package-publish-en-2026-10-07.webp)

*Package details: edit the text, mark it as published, or open the publish page.*

## Save to your computer

Open the publish page from a package card in the chat or from a manuscript preview, click **Save to computer**, and choose your desktop or downloads folder. Beav creates a folder named after the article title and saves the numbered original images, `文案.txt`, and `发布.html`. You can also **Save original** for each image individually; the full ZIP is for handing off or archiving.

## Pick up on your phone by scanning

Clicking **Publish** on a package opens the publish page in your default browser, and a QR code is prepared automatically on the right:

1. Connect your phone and computer to the same Wi-Fi.
2. Scan the code with your phone to open the pickup page, and copy the title and body.
3. On iPhone, long-press an image and choose **Save to Photos** to save it to your photo library; on Android, use **Save original** to download it.
4. Open the target platform, upload the images, and paste the text.

Pickup transfers only the images and copy of the current package and does not go through the cloud. It stays valid for up to 30 minutes from when you open the publish page, and you can click **End pickup** at any time. After changing networks, if the computer sleeps, or if Beav quits, open the publish page again. Pickup over a phone's cellular network is not supported, and images in a single package are limited to 100 MB.

**Publish on Xiaohongshu** opens the Xiaohongshu creator publishing web page. You need to upload the images manually and paste the title and body; Beav does not post for you.

![The Xiaohongshu publish page in a browser, with save-to-computer, phone pickup, full-package download and open-Xiaohongshu buttons at the top, publish steps on the left and a pickup QR code on the right](https://getbeav.com/screenshots/publish-page-zh-2026-10-07.webp)

*The publish page: save to your computer, or scan the code on the same Wi-Fi to pick up the images and text on your phone. The publish page itself is in Chinese.*

## Published marks

At the top of a package's details, click **Mark published**. The package moves to **Published**, and the **Unpublished** list on the home page updates accordingly.

* The mark is recorded only in the manuscript on this computer. It does not post to the platform or delete content you already published.
* Opening the publish page does not mark it automatically; you can **Unmark published**.
* A published mark is tied to the content at that time. If you edit and save the package, it returns to **Ready to publish**, and the original publishing record is kept.
* Each platform is marked separately: marking Xiaohongshu as published does not mark the WeChat Official Account version as published. Master draft cards summarize all platforms as **Published**, **Partly published**, **Ready to publish**, or **In progress**.

In the rebuilt 2.9.0 release dated October 13, 2026, background memory organization is excluded from content schedules and task counts. While it runs, a small status and loading icon appear beside Today, then disappear on completion. The Home sidebar defaults to 400px and the full calendar sidebar to 320px; each saves its own resized width. Native desktop appearance and the new running-state indicator still need acceptance testing.

## Content schedule

Applies to Beav desktop 2.9.0. Older versions still show **Schedule** in the left sidebar.

Give a manuscript a planned publish day and Home and the calendar show what goes out on which day.

* **Content schedule on Home**: below the session board. Switch between **Month / Week / Year** at the top right; Week is the default, and Beav remembers your last choice.
  * **Month**: a compact month with each day's planned or published posts, the packages and manuscripts made that day, and holiday names. Click a day to list its posts, everything made that day, holidays and scheduled tasks on the right, where you can open an output, unschedule a post or plan another. Manuscripts and packages open as a preview in the right sidebar without leaving the page.
  * **Week** (default): seven days side by side with planned posts, what was made that day (packages, manuscripts, images and more), holidays and scheduled tasks.
  * **Year**: all twelve months; days with posts are colored. Click a day to jump to that month.
  * Use the arrows to page and **Today** to come back. The heading shows how many posts are overdue and how many are not scheduled yet; the expand button opens the full calendar.
* **Colors**: gray is a draft, orange is final, green is published, red means the planned day passed without publishing.
* **Plan a post**: hover today or a later day and click **+ Plan a post** to pick a manuscript that has no day yet. Drag a planned manuscript to move it to another day.
* **Full calendar**: the **To schedule** sidebar tab lists unpublished manuscripts without a day; drag one onto a day. The **Scheduled tasks** tab manages scheduled tasks. Click a day to unschedule a post or plan another one.
* **Right-click a manuscript**: in the Manuscripts list of the chat's right workspace, choose **Plan to publish on** a day or **Remove from schedule**.
* **Ideas from a date**: click a holiday or marketing date to start a topic conversation about it.

Published manuscripts sit on the day they were actually published. The planned day is recorded only in the manuscript on this computer: nothing is published automatically and no platform is notified. The AI cannot change the schedule yet.