Write your first Rheos post: set the brand and direction, pick one of three ideas, edit the draft, then publish it or put it on the schedule.
Every post in Rheos starts the same way: say what you want, pick one of the ideas Rheos comes back with, then edit the draft. This walkthrough follows one from a blank screen to a published post.
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Start a new post
From Home, select New post. The Start a new post screen opens.Pick the brand you’re posting as — nothing else unlocks until you have. Then pick the platforms you’re writing for, and type a line saying what the post is about. “5 myths about pension transfers”, “Our new spring menu launches Monday”, “Why we stopped offering free consultations” — one line is enough, because Rheos fills in the rest from your brand.Choose intent and Audience are optional. Set them if you already know the post should sell rather than teach, or that it’s aimed at one particular audience.Select Continue. If you’d rather write it yourself, or write manually → takes you straight to an empty editor.
The Start a new post screen. Pick a brand and platforms, then say what the post is about.
Threads, TikTok and YouTube Shorts are coming soon. They appear in that platform strip, but there’s no way to connect an account to them yet — so pick from LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, Pinterest, Bluesky and Mastodon for now.
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Pick an idea
Rheos comes back with three ideas. Each one shows the intent it’s built on — Announce, Sell, Educate and so on — the hook types behind it, and a one-line summary of the angle. More details expands an idea if the summary isn’t enough to pick on.Not the right three? Change the intent using the chips underneath, edit your direction, and select Regenerate. Write manually skips the ideas entirely.Select the one you want and select Continue.
Three ideas from one line of direction. The chip on each shows the intent it was built from.
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Edit the draft
The editor opens as a single column: the post title, the body in one card with suggested hashtag chips along the bottom, and the attachments underneath. Everything is editable in place.
Edit, beside the title, opens a box where you ask for a change to the whole post — “make it punchier”, “cut the last two lines”, “be more specific about the offer”.
Select a sentence in the body and a small Comment on selection button appears. It opens the same box, aimed at just that sentence rather than the whole post.
The Attachments card holds the visuals. Attach takes an upload or something from your library; Generate makes an AI image from the post.
Along the top row: a Draft · saved / Draft · unsaved marker so you can see whether your work is stored, then Attach context (the paperclip — files for the AI to read, not things to publish), Version history, and Close post.
The editor. Title and body up top, hashtag chips along the bottom of the card, attachments underneath, Save draft and Preview in the footer.
Two Attachments cards currently appear one above the other. Use the top one — Attach and Generate there do everything you need.
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Publish or schedule
Check the platform icons at the top left of the editor before you go on. If none are selected you’ll see a + Pick a platform button instead; once you have picked some it collapses to a bare + for adding more.Rheos does not shorten an over-long caption for you. If the body is past a selected platform’s character limit, a red pill at the top of the editor names that platform, and the buttons that move the post forward stop working — Preview in the writing view, Post now and Schedule on the preview screen. Hover a dead button and it tells you which platform is over. Cut the text back and they come alive again.In the footer, Save draft keeps the post for later and Preview → takes you on to the platform previews. Nothing goes out from the writing view — publishing lives one step further on. From the preview footer:
Post now doesn’t publish. It opens a Posting to summary of the accounts the post will go to, and a second Post now in that footer is what actually sends it.
Schedule → opens a date and time picker; Confirm puts the post in the queue.
Edit takes you back to the writing view.
Both routes need a connected account for the platform you’ve picked. If nothing is connected yet, set that up first in Settings → Social Accounts.
Your post shows up on Home: scheduled posts sit in Content Plan, and everything else lands in Drafts & recent.Each row carries one status for the whole post — Draft, Scheduled, Published, Partially published or Failed — followed by the icons of the platforms it’s going to. There’s no per-platform status on the list itself. To see which channel had the problem, select the row: a post that came back Partially published or Failed names the channels that didn’t make it, with the error for each.If a platform hiccups mid-publish — a rate limit, a momentary outage — Rheos retries it there and then. An expired or revoked connection is different: that can’t fix itself, so the post is marked failed and stops. Reconnect the account in Settings → Social Accounts, then open the post and use Retry failed to send it to the channels that didn’t go out.
