# Create a release plan
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/release-share/releases/create-a-release-plan

Answer a short questionnaire, or pick a template, and get a dated launch plan for your track.
## Create a plan [#create-a-plan]

1. Open the track and go to **Release plans**, then press **New plan**. A finished track without a plan also shows **Plan the release** in its sidebar.
2. The questionnaire opens already filled from what Aden knows: genre and tags, your connected platforms, lyrics, footage in your media and answers from your last plan. It only asks what it couldn't find. Everything it filled in waits under **Filled in for you**, each with a note saying where it came from.
3. Change anything you like, then press **Create plan**.

The plan opens with milestones, tasks and draft posts, all editable. Dates are squeezed into the time left before your release, so a plan made two weeks out spreads its work over those two weeks. Draft posts also appear in your **Posts**, ready to review and schedule.

If your act has an identity filled in, the drafts use its tagline, sound and visual notes.

## Set a goal [#set-a-goal]

The first question is the plan's goal, the result the release is for, like "+1K followers by release" or "10K streams in the first 4 weeks". It suggests one from your team's goals. Pick a preset or type your own.

The goal shows on your **Goals** page and on the plan. Posting goals count themselves; for followers, streams, pre-saves and playlist adds, use **Log progress**. **What it takes** beside the plan works the goal back into the impressions and clicks it needs.

## Official or unofficial [#official-or-unofficial]

The **Release** question decides the kind of plan:

* **Official**: it goes out through a distributor to every store. The plan keeps pre-save, distributor and editorial pitching tasks.
* **Unofficial**: a remix, edit or bootleg that can't be distributed. The plan is built around SoundCloud, a free download and repost channels, and drops Spotify and Apple Music.

Your own song, or a track with an ISRC, a distributor or a store link, is treated as official. Unofficial plans wear an **Unofficial** badge.

## Start from a template [#start-from-a-template]

Press **Templates** in the questionnaire's header. You see plans other artists published, then Aden's own. Pick one to preview its milestones on your dates, then press **Use for this track**.

To publish one of your plans as a template, open it and turn on **Publish as template** in the "…" menu. Others see your team name, milestone and task titles, relative dates and budgets, never your track, notes, links or people.

## Related [#related]

* [Work through a release plan](/docs/help/release-share/releases/work-a-release-plan)
* [Goals](/docs/help/work-together/goals)
* [Share remixes on your profile](/docs/help/release-share/remix-sharing)