Notion Calendar

Summary

Notion Calendar seamlessly integrates your schedule with your work, allowing you to view professional and personal commitments alongside your tasks and projects. It syncs with Google Calendar, enabling you to manage events from one app. You can create events, invite participants, and attach documents, all while viewing them in different time zones. Notion Calendar also offers shortcuts for efficient navigation and a menu bar countdown to your next meeting, ensuring you never miss a beat.

Takeaways

• 📅 **Integrated Calendar**: Notion Calendar integrates with your work, allowing you to view your schedule alongside your tasks and projects.
• 🔗 **Google Calendar Sync**: Connects with Google Calendar, enabling you to manage both work and personal events from within Notion.
• 🌐 **Time Zone Support**: Adjusts to different time zones, helping with international collaboration and scheduling.
• 🔄 **Seamless Task Management**: Tasks with start and end times appear on the calendar, and changes in the calendar reflect in Notion.
• 📈 **Project Tracking**: View project milestones and deadlines as events directly on the calendar.
• 📝 **Event Management**: Create new events, adjust timings, and make them recurring directly from the calendar.
• 👥 **Collaboration Features**: Invite participants, add meeting details, and attach documents to events for team collaboration.
• 🔄 **Rescheduling Made Easy**: Drag and drop events to reschedule, accommodating different time zones effortlessly.
• 📊 **Availability Sharing**: Share your availability with people outside your organization by marking free time and creating snippets.
• ⏏️ **Keyboard Shortcuts**: Utilize keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation within the calendar grid.
• 📱 **Countdown Feature**: Get a handy countdown to your next meeting from the menu bar, even when using other apps.

Q & A

What does Notion Calendar integrate with to manage both work and personal events?

Notion Calendar integrates with Google Calendar, allowing you to manage both work and personal events from one app.

How can you connect your Google Calendar to Notion Calendar?

To connect your Google Calendar to Notion Calendar, you click on 'Connect to Google Calendar', select your calendar, and go through the steps to verify your account.

How does Notion Calendar help in collaborating with colleagues across different time zones?

Notion Calendar allows you to adjust your default time zone and add up to three additional time zones to see how schedules align at different locations, helping you find the best time to meet with international colleagues.

Can you view your tasks on the Notion Calendar?

Yes, you can connect your personal task tracker to Notion Calendar, and if you provide a start and end time for tasks, they will appear as blocks on your calendar.

How can you view product launches or other significant events on Notion Calendar?

You can view product launches as events on your calendar by connecting your team's roadmap or syncing your content calendar to keep up with publishing deadlines.

What happens when you click on an event from a database in Notion Calendar?

When you click on any event from a database in Notion Calendar, you can instantly go to the corresponding Notion Page by clicking 'Open in Notion'.

How do you create a new event in Notion Calendar?

You can create a new event by double-clicking a slot on your calendar, naming your event, adjusting the start and end time, and optionally making it a repeating event.

What additional details can you add when creating an event in Notion Calendar?

When creating an event, you can view and invite participants, add an office room and conferencing link, attach relevant documents, and navigate to connected Notion Pages.

How can you reschedule an event in Notion Calendar?

To reschedule an event, you can simply drag and drop it to another slot on the calendar grid.

What are some of the shortcuts available in Notion Calendar to navigate efficiently?

Some shortcuts in Notion Calendar include hitting 'T' to find your way back to today, using 'J' to skip forward to the next week or month, 'K' to go back, and arrow keys to navigate by the number of days displayed in your grid.

How can you share your availability with people outside your organization using Notion Calendar?

To share your availability with people outside your organization, go to 'Share availability' in the menu on the right, drag across to mark your free time in your calendar, then click 'Create' to save the snippet and send it to anyone.

Outlines

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📅 Notion Calendar Integration

The Notion Calendar app integrates your schedule with your work in Notion, allowing you to view both professional and personal commitments in one place. It enables collaboration across time zones and quick navigation to related Notion pages. It syncs with Google Calendar, allowing you to manage events from a single app. The calendar is directly connected to your workspace, making task management and scheduling seamless. You can view events as blocks on the calendar, and changes in the calendar reflect in Notion. It also supports connecting with team roadmaps or content calendars for project management.

Keywords

💡Notion Calendar

Notion Calendar is a feature within the Notion application that integrates scheduling capabilities with the existing tools and databases within Notion. It allows users to manage their professional and personal commitments in one place. The video emphasizes how Notion Calendar brings together various aspects of work and life, enabling seamless transitions between tasks and scheduling.

💡Collaboration

Collaboration refers to the process of working together with others to achieve a common goal. In the context of the video, Notion Calendar facilitates collaboration by enabling users to work with colleagues across different time zones, making it easier to coordinate schedules and manage events.

💡Time Zone

A Time Zone is a region of the Earth that has the same standard time. The video mentions the ability to adjust the default Time Zone in Notion Calendar and add additional time zones, which is crucial for scheduling meetings with international colleagues and ensuring that everyone is on the same page despite geographical differences.

💡Google Calendar Integration

Google Calendar Integration is the process of connecting Notion Calendar with Google Calendar, allowing users to sync their calendars and manage both work and personal events from within Notion. This integration is highlighted in the video as a way to streamline the management of events across different platforms.

💡Workspace Sidebar

The Workspace Sidebar is a feature in Notion that provides quick access to various tools and databases within a workspace. The video describes how to navigate to the Calendar from the Workspace Sidebar, underscoring its importance as a central hub for accessing scheduling tools.

💡Task Tracker

A Task Tracker is a tool used to manage and organize tasks. The video explains how Notion Calendar can be connected to a personal task tracker, allowing tasks to appear as blocks on the calendar when start and end times are provided, thus integrating task management with scheduling.

💡Events

In the context of the video, Events refer to scheduled activities or occurrences that appear on the Notion Calendar. These can include professional commitments, personal appointments, or even product launches. The video demonstrates how events can be viewed and managed within the calendar.

💡Database

A Database in Notion is a versatile tool for organizing information. The video mentions viewing product launches as events on the calendar by connecting a team's roadmap or syncing a content calendar, which are both types of databases within Notion.

💡Rescheduling

Rescheduling is the act of changing the time or date of a scheduled event. The video highlights the ease of rescheduling events in Notion Calendar by simply dragging and dropping them to another slot on the calendar grid.

💡Shortcuts

Shortcuts are quick methods to perform actions within an application. Notion Calendar is equipped with numerous shortcuts, as mentioned in the video, to help users navigate the calendar grid efficiently and access information quickly.

💡Availability

Availability refers to the times when someone is free to engage in an activity or meeting. The video explains how Notion Calendar allows users to share their availability with others, which is essential for coordinating meetings and ensuring that all participants' schedules are considered.

Highlights

Notion Calendar integrates your schedule with your work in Notion.

View professional and personal commitments in one place.

Collaborate with colleagues across different time zones.

Navigate to Notion pages with one click from the calendar.

Sync with Google Calendar to manage work and personal events.

Connect your workspace in the Notion Calendar app.

Connect your personal task tracker to manage tasks in your calendar.

Tasks with start and end times appear as blocks on the calendar.

Moving tasks in the calendar updates the date in Notion.

View product launches as events by connecting your team's roadmap.

Sync your content calendar to track publishing deadlines.

Create new events by double-clicking a slot on the calendar.

Invite participants and add meeting details to events.

Attach relevant documents and navigate to connected Notion pages.

Reschedule events by dragging and dropping to another slot.

Adjust your default Time Zone and add additional time zones for international meetings.

Share your availability with people outside your organization.

Use shortcuts to navigate the calendar grid efficiently.

Toggle between day, week, and month views for different perspectives.

See a countdown to your next meeting in the menu bar even when using other apps.

Notion Calendar brings all your events together for streamlined scheduling and information access.

Transcripts

with notion calendar you finally have a

calendar app that marries your schedule

with the rest of your work in notion

view all your professional and personal

commitments in one place collaborate

effortlessly with colleagues in any time

zone and navigate to your notion pages

with one click notion calendar sys with

Google so you can add your calendars and

manage work and personal events from one

app to connect to Google Calendar click

at calendar account select your calendar

and go through the steps to verify your

account now now with your Calendar's

connected you can see all your upcoming

events in notion calendar most calendar

apps are separate from where you do your

work but because notion calendar is

directly connected to all the rest of

your knowledge and projects switching

between work and scheduling is seamless

in your workspace sidebar go to calendar

at the bottom then follow the process of

connecting your workspace in the notion

calendar app you can connect your

personal task tracker to manage all of

your tasks to do in your calendar if you

provide a start and end time for tasks

they'll appear as blocks on your

calendar if you move them in your

calendar you'll see the date change

reflected in notion as

well view product launches as events on

your calendar by connecting your teams

road

map or sync your content calendar to

keep up with publishing

deadlines

when you click on any event from a

database you can instantly go to the

corresponding notion Page by clicking

open in

notion create a new event by double

clicking a slot on your calendar name

your event adjust the start and end time

and optionally make it a repeating event

if you wanted to reappear in your

calendar every weekday once a week once

a month and so on view and invite

participants and add an office room and

conferencing link as necessary you can

also attach any relevant documents here

and navigate to Connected notion

Pages if you need to reschedule an event

simply drag and drop to another slot on

the calendar

grid easily arrange meetings that work

for everyone across different time zones

in notion calendar you can adjust your

default Time Zone by clicking on the

time zone at the top left of your grid

and add up to three additional time

zones to see how schedules align at

different locations and quickly find the

best time to meet with International

colleagues to share your availability

with people outside your organization go

to share availability in the menu on the

right and drag across to mark your free

time in your calendar then click create

to save the snippet and send it to

anyone notion calendar is equipped with

plenty of shortcuts to help you get

around the grid efficiently and see what

matters most to you at any time wherever

you are in the calendar find your way

back to today by hitting T press J to

skip forward to next week or next month

depending which view you're in K takes

you back to the previous week or month

use the arrow keys to navigate backward

or forward by the number of days

displayed in your grid Hit N to go to

your next upcoming event shift command e

lets you toggle between showing and

hiding weekends and you can view all

shortcuts and customize them by pressing

the question mark toggle between day

week and month view by clicking on the

top right dropdown and even when you

navigate to another app you'll see a

handy countdown to your next meeting in

the menu bar and that's it notion

calendar brings all your events in one

place where you can manage your schedule

catch up with colleagues and quickly

access relevant information in notion

with one

click