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YouTube video checklist with every task dated from the day you start

Make and publish one YouTube video: title and thumbnail first, then script, film, edit, upload and the first 48 hours.

6 sections
22 tasks
Opens as a list
Dated from day 1

YouTube: [working title]

Days count from the day you start. In the app, pick a start or a finish date and each task lands on a real day.

Idea

Write five title options and pick oneDay 1High
Sketch the thumbnailDay 1
Look at the top videos on the topic and note what they missDay 2

Script

Write the first 15 secondsDay 3High
Outline the rest as beatsDay 4
Full script or talking pointsDay 5
List the B-roll and screen recordings neededDay 5

Film

Set up light, sound and frameDay 7
Record the main takesDay 7
Record B-roll and screen capturesDay 8

Edit

Cut the dead air and the weak takesDay 10
Add B-roll, text and musicDay 11
Watch it as a stranger and cut what dragsDay 12
Make the thumbnailDay 12

Upload

Title, description, chapters and tagsDay 13
Captions checkedDay 13
End screen and pinned commentDay 13
Schedule or publishDay 14High

After

Share it on your other channelsDay 14
Reply to commentsDay 15
Check click-through rate and where viewers drop offDay 16
Note one thing to do better next videoDay 16

About this template

On YouTube the title and thumbnail decide whether anyone watches, so this project starts there. If you cannot write a title you would click, the video is not ready to film. After that it runs the script, the shoot, the edit, the upload settings and the first two days of replies.

Rename it to the video. It fits into about two weeks.

Tips from the template

Write the title and sketch the thumbnail before the script.
Hook the viewer in the first 15 seconds; say what they will get.
Reply to comments in the first two days.

How to use it in ActivityTracker

1Open Tasks and choose Templates.
2Find YouTube video and open it. You see every section and task before anything is added.
3Pick the day you start, or the day it has to be done by. Every date moves with it.
4Press Use template. Rename the project, then work down the list.

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