Series
Build recurring, numbered article series from a theme, a topic queue, and a publishing cadence.
A Series turns one theme into a stream of numbered, serialized articles — a "Weekly AI News Roundup", a monthly product explainer, or a daily tips column. You define the theme, schedule, and numbering once; RankTurn keeps a queue of topics, turns each one into a numbered issue, and (optionally) writes and publishes them on the schedule you set.
Plan: Series is a Pro feature. Creating a series, editing it, generating topics, and turning topics into articles all require the Pro plan. If your plan is downgraded, your existing series stay intact — you can still pause a series, delete a series, and delete queued topics so nothing keeps running without your control.
How a Series Works
Theme → topic queue → pick a topic → numbered article → write → publish
- Create the series — name, theme, schedule, and numbering format.
- Build a topic queue — generate ideas with AI or add your own.
- Take the next topic — RankTurn assigns the next issue number, writes the issue title, and creates a draft article tied to the series.
- Write & publish — automatically on schedule, or on demand from the queue.
Every issue is written with the series name, theme, and issue number in mind, so each installment stays consistent with the whole.
Creating a Series
Open Articles > Series > Create Series and fill in:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Series Name | Internal name, e.g. "Weekly AI News Roundup". Required (up to 200 characters). |
| Title Template | Optional format for each issue's headline (see below). |
| Theme | The overall direction. Sent to the AI with the series name and issue number for every issue. Required (up to 2,000 characters). |
| Issue Numbering | How issue numbers are written — Vol.1, No.1, #1, or 第1回. |
| Frequency | Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, or Monthly. |
| Days | For Weekly/Biweekly, pick the weekday(s). For Monthly, pick the date(s) of the month (1–28). |
| Post Time | The time each issue goes out, in your workspace timezone. |
| Auto Publish | When on, each issue is published automatically after it is generated. |
| Publish Platforms | When auto publish is on, choose which connected platforms each issue is sent to. |
The next publish date is calculated from your frequency, day(s), post time, and workspace timezone. To control the timezone, see Language, Timezone & Currency.
Numbering formats
| Format | Output |
|---|---|
vol | Vol.1, Vol.2, … |
no | No.1, No.2, … |
hash | #1, #2, … |
kai | 第1回, 第2回, … |
Building the Topic Queue
A series runs off a topic queue — issues are made from the top of the queue down. Open the series and use the Queued Topics tab.
- AI Generate Topics — RankTurn suggests topics from the series theme and your business details. The default batch is 5 topics (you can ask for 1–20). It avoids titles and keywords already in the queue, and each suggested topic comes with a main keyword (plus its search volume and difficulty when those are available). Generating topics counts against your monthly keyword allowance, since each new topic adds a keyword.
- Add Topic — Enter a topic title and up to 5 keywords yourself. Keywords you add this way are saved to your keyword list too.
- Edit — Change a queued topic's title or keywords. Only topics still waiting in the queue (not yet turned into an article) can be edited.
- Reorder — Drag topics by the handle to change the order issues are made in.
- Delete — Remove queued topics one at a time or in bulk. Use the checkboxes to select several at once.
Once a topic becomes an article it leaves the queue and is left out of future AI suggestions, so issues don't repeat.
Generating Articles from Topics
There are three ways a queued topic becomes a finished article.
- On schedule (automatic). When a series is running and automatic generation is on, RankTurn takes the next queued topic ahead of each publish date and writes its article. How far ahead is set by Generate Days Before (see advanced settings). If Auto Publish is on, the finished issue goes live on its scheduled date.
- Generate (single). Open the ⋮ menu on a queued topic and choose Generate to write just that topic now. RankTurn assigns the issue number, writes the title, creates the draft, and opens the generation dialog so you can confirm settings.
- Bulk Generate. Select several queued topics, then choose Bulk Generate to write them together (up to 50 at a time). The series generation settings are used as the starting point, and the dialog lets you adjust settings for that batch.
Each issue uses one article from your monthly article allowance; see Usage Quotas. Issue numbers are assigned one at a time, so two issues never end up with the same number even when several are written at once.
Calendar projection
Queued topics for a running series with automatic generation on are shown on their future publish dates in the Content Calendar. These are placeholder cards (the article doesn't exist yet) that link back to the series, so you can see what's coming. Paused or manual-only series aren't shown this way. The projected issue number is just a preview and may shift if you reorder or add topics before they're written.
Per-Series Generation Settings & Title Template
A series can carry its own defaults so every issue is produced the same way.
- Title Template — Controls how each issue's headline is formatted. Use
{number}for the issue number and{title}for the generated article title, e.g.{number} {title}→Vol.5 Your Headline. Date tokens based on the scheduled publish date are also supported, so a weekly roundup can date-stamp itself. A live preview shows the result as you type. - Custom Prompt — Series-specific instructions about writing style or structure. RankTurn adds these on top of the series name, theme, and issue number it already passes along (up to 5,000 characters).
- Generation Settings — Per-series defaults for article length, news inclusion, thumbnail and inline images (and their styles), diagrams, screenshots, YouTube videos, internal links, references, promotion card, and the category / tags / author applied to every issue. Anything you leave unset uses your account defaults in Generation Settings.
- Generate Days Before — How many days ahead of each publish date an issue is written automatically (1–14, default 3). This gives writing enough time to finish before the scheduled publish time.
Managing a Series
- Pause / Resume — Pausing stops new issues from being scheduled or written automatically; resuming recalculates the next publish date and starts the schedule again. (Pause stays available even on a downgraded plan; resume requires Pro.)
- Reset Issue Number — Set the number the next issue will use. Existing articles keep their numbers.
- Renumber Issues — Reassign sequential numbers (1, 2, 3…) to the series' articles based on their current order.
- Delete — Removes the series and its queued topics. Articles already created from the series remain, but are no longer tied to it. Delete stays available even on a downgraded plan.
Learn More
- Articles — The full article lifecycle
- Content Generation — How the AI writes each issue
- Scheduling Articles — Schedule and automate publishing
- Bulk Publishing & Generation — Generate and publish in batches