I am trying to create an understandable and clear UX design for a schedule designer web app.
Imagine we have categories of followers and marketing emails to send. Also we have a schedule: each day we are going to send some pool of emails of some category.
Sometimes we need to move an email of some category to another day on the schedule, so
emails on a day ≠ emails of a Followers category.
The primary call to action is a Generate schedule
button. We suggest that the user arrange categories by day; the user then generates the schedule. If the user needs to move an email to another day, it has to be done on another screen.
Question: If the user moves an email to another day, they have to re-generate the schedule. All edits to the previous version will be lost. What is a more elegant way to help the user create a "ready to use" schedule on the fly?