# Evergreen library

Evergreen keeps categories of posts you can share again and again, like tips, reviews or offers. Each category posts at its own times and shares the next post in line each time, so your channels keep posting without you writing something new every day.

Open **Evergreen** in the Postbird menu. Everything there belongs to the brand picked at the top.

## Create a category

1. Click **New category**.
2. Give it a name and a colour. Its posts show in that colour on the calendar and in the queue.
3. Pick **When it posts**:
   - **Its own times**: pick the days and a time, and the channels it posts to at that time. Click **Add a time** for more.
   - **Fill my queue times**: pick channels, and the category uses the posting times you set on those channels. A time another post already has is left to that post.
4. Choose what happens when every post has gone out: with **Recycle when it runs out** on, it starts again from the first post; with it off, the category stops.
5. Optionally turn on **Skip recent posts** and enter a number of days. A post that already went out on the same channel within those days waits for a later turn, so followers do not see it again too soon.
6. Click **Create category**, then add its posts.

## Add posts

- On the category, click **Add a post**, write it and add images or a video from your media library if you like.
- In the composer, click **Add to evergreen** to save what you are writing into a category.
- On a post that already went out, click **Add to evergreen** to reuse it.

Posts go out from top to bottom, one at each time. Use the arrows to change the order. Each post shows how often it went out and when it last did.

## See what goes out next

Each category lists **What goes out next**: the coming times, the channels and the post that goes out at each. The calendar and the queue show these as **Planned** in the category colour. Shortly before its time, a planned post becomes a normal scheduled post, which you can open, edit or cancel like any other.

## Pause, resume and delete

- **Pause** stops a category from scheduling new posts until you click **Resume**.
- A category with recycling off shows **Ran out** once every post has gone out. Add new posts or turn recycling on, and it posts again.
- **Delete** removes the category and its posts from the library and cancels its scheduled posts that have not gone out yet. Posts that already went out stay.

## Repeat a single post

To post one post again every day, week or month, use **Repeat** under **More options** in the composer instead. Evergreen is for a set of posts that take turns.

## Use it from your AI assistant or the API

Categories and their posts can be listed, created, changed and paused through the Postbird API and the MCP tools, the same way as posts. See [API keys and AI assistants (MCP)](api-and-mcp.md). When a category with recycling off runs out, an automation can start from the **Evergreen category ran out** trigger.