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title: "Manage drafts and scheduled messages"
canonical: https://workspace.socra.com/docs/channels/guides/drafts-and-scheduled-messages
---

# Manage drafts and scheduled messages

Use **Drafts** for work you have not sent. A scheduled message is submitted for delivery at the time you choose.

## Resume a draft

Open **Drafts** and choose **Open conversation** for the draft. Review the text and audience before selecting **Send message**.

To remove unsent work, select **Discard draft**. Preserve any text you need before discarding it. Removing a draft does not remove a message already sent.

## Schedule a message

Scheduling submits a future message to the service. Confirm the conversation and intended delivery time before saving it.

1. Write a message in the conversation.
2. Select **Schedule message**.
3. Set **Send at** to the intended date and time in your local time zone.
4. Select **Schedule message** in the dialog.

Open **Scheduled** and confirm that the message and time are correct. After delivery, check the conversation for the message.

## Cancel scheduled delivery

Open **Scheduled**, find the message, and select **Cancel delivery**. Confirm that it no longer appears as pending. Cancellation does not recall a message the service has already delivered; check the conversation if the delivery time has passed.

To replace the text or time, cancel the pending delivery and schedule the corrected message. Preserve the text before canceling.

## Recover unsent work

A draft, a scheduled message, and a message awaiting retry have different states. Follow [message recovery](/docs/channels/troubleshooting#a-message-does-not-send) when a send attempt fails.