How to Write a Year-in-Review Post: A Worked Example
A fictional cooking creator goes from twelve blank months to a short caption, a thread, a long post and five slides, with every sum shown.
Your 2026 in review, on one page.
Type twelve months of followers, views, posts and earnings. Get your best and slowest month with the maths shown, a posts-versus-views chart, a caption in three lengths, a five-slide outline and a page to print.
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What you get
- Best and slowest month
- Month-over-month change, formula shown
- Posts per month against views per post
- A caption in three lengths
- Five slides and a printable page
Your year
type what you have, blanks are fine
Name each platform in your own words, then fill in what you know for each month: followers at month end, views, posts published and earnings. Write 12,500, 12.5k or 1.2m. Paste a block from a spreadsheet into any box and it fills across and down.
Posts that mattered
Three to five posts, each with the one number that mattered: views, saves, shares or comments.
2027 and the look
Your recap
No figures yet
Add at least one month of followers, views, posts or earnings for a platform, then press Build my recap.
Best and slowest month
The year in numbers
Month over month
Change % = (this month − last month) ÷ last month × 100
| Month | This month | Last month | Change | Percent | How it was worked out |
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Posts per month versus views per post
Views per post = views ÷ posts. A month with no posts, or missing either figure, is left blank on that line.
Your caption, three lengths
Five-slide carousel outline
One-page recap
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How the numbers are worked out
every step is plain arithmetic
Month-over-month change
Each month is compared with the month before it. The percentage is (this month − last month) ÷ last month × 100, rounded to one decimal place, and the table prints the sum with your own numbers in it. A fall is written with a minus sign, such as −7.1%, and the captions say “down 7.1%” in words so the sign can never come apart from the number.
When last month is 0
Dividing by 0 has no answer, so a month that follows a 0 shows the plain difference and the words n/a in the percent column. Zero followed by zero reads as no change.
Best and slowest month
The best month is the highest figure you entered for the chosen measure and the slowest is the lowest. Followers are a running total, so for followers the months are ranked on followers gained: this month minus last month. If two months tie, the earlier one is named.
Views per post
Views per post is views ÷ posts for each month that has both figures and at least one post. The chart draws it under posts per month on the same month axis, each line with its own scale, so you read the two side by side without a second axis.
Several platforms
Pick one platform, or all of them together. Together, a month counts only when every platform you filled in has a figure for it, so a platform with three months of data does not make the others look like they dropped. The recap tells you which months it used.
Where your numbers stay
Everything is worked out in this page. The figures are not sent anywhere, and closing the tab clears them.
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From the blog
a worked example, start to finish
Quick answers
What if a platform has only three months of data?
Type those three months and leave the other boxes blank. The platform still gets its own recap. When you look at all platforms together, only months where every platform has a figure are added up, so a short history never looks like a drop on the others.
How are numbers like 12.5k and 1.2m read?
12.5k becomes 12,500 and 1.2m becomes 1,200,000. Commas and spaces for thousands work too, and a comma can stand in for the decimal point when a k or m follows, as in 1,2m. A decimal point without a k or m is not read for counts, so write 1200 or 1.2k.
Why does a month show n/a instead of a percentage?
A percentage change divides by last month. When last month is 0 there is nothing to divide by, so the table shows the plain difference and the words n/a instead.
Do I have to enter earnings?
No. Leave the earnings boxes blank and the earnings line is left out of the captions, the outline and the printed page.
How do I save the one-page recap?
Choose A4 or Letter, press Print the page, then pick Save as PDF in the print window or send it to a printer. The CSV button downloads every figure you typed plus the changes worked out.
When should I post my recap?
The builder is set up for a 2026 recap posted between 1 December 2026 and 15 January 2027. The plain-language walkthrough is in the post on writing a year-in-review post.
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