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Reviewing before publish

How to review scheduled articles before they publish, now that there's no separate approval step to click through.

July 11, 2026

There's no "approve" button in HarperFlow. Every article is already scheduled the moment it's written, and reviewing it means deciding, any time before its publish slot, whether to let it go live or stop it.

Where to look

Your Articles page is segmented into Upcoming, Published, and Skipped. Upcoming is where the review actually happens: every scheduled article, and any rare pending-review article, with its publish time shown right on the row. Switching between the three tabs tells you, at a glance, how much of your recent output is still awaiting a decision versus already settled one way or the other.

What you can do

On any upcoming article, these three actions cover everything you can do without leaving the queue:

  • Skip this one, the red primary action, which stops it from publishing and optionally asks for a line of feedback that tunes future articles.
  • Change the time, if the slot itself just needs to move.
  • Publish now, if you'd rather not wait for its slot at all.

Signals worth a closer look

Two things call out an article that deserves extra attention before its slot arrives: a Review suggested tag when its automatic quality check came back below the bar, and an amber "last chance to skip" chip once it's within 24 hours of publishing.

Changing your mind

Skipped an article and reconsidered? A Restore action on any skipped, or taken-down, article brings it back to pending review, ready for a new slot, exactly as if it had just been written.

Warning: Skip only works before an article publishes. Once it's live on your site, use Take this down instead; it's the equivalent action for something that already went out.