Notion customers have been asking for an built-in calendar system for years. Now, Notion is delivering: it’s launching Notion Calendar, a standalone app that integrates with your whole databases and notes in Notion. It’s yet one more method Notion is trying to be the one app your organization must do just about all the pieces.
If you happen to’ve ever used Cron, the calendar app Notion acquired in 2022 and has been working ever since, you principally already know the cope with Notion Calendar. It’s only a redesigned, Notion-ified model of the app. Cron was at all times a quick, easy, nice-looking calendar with some intelligent options like Calendly-style reserving instruments and a command bar you should utilize for shortly organising recurring conferences and the like. One function I notably like: for those who use a number of calendars, it’ll mechanically block your work conferences in your private calendar, and vice versa, so others can’t double-book you. It’s a complete energy person device, however it’s a superb calendar app.
The large new function coming with the rebranding is Notion integration. If you happen to or your organization makes use of Notion, you’ll be capable to create or hyperlink Notion paperwork inside a calendar invite. You probably have a database crammed with due dates, you may add that as a calendar to Notion Calendar. It appears like a significantly better method to deal with agendas and notes than sending them round earlier than and after a gathering or trying to find them in your Slack. Placing all the pieces within the calendar occasion is an effective transfer.
The draw back of Cron, and of Notion Calendar at launch, is that it doesn’t help the entire instruments folks truly use. The app is coming to Mac, Home windows, and iOS at first, and Notion says Android is coming later. It additionally doesn’t help Outlook, which instantly means an enormous share of Workplace-using companies merely can’t use Notion Calendar. Like so many fashionable productiveness instruments, Cron was constructed for Mac- and iPhone-toting tech professionals, however that’s simply not most businesspeople.
Notion basically is a reasonably cross-platform app, although, so I’d anticipate it to begin to help different platforms pretty quickly. The corporate is on a mission to be successfully the one app your organization must do enterprise — it’s launching AI options, messaging and commenting instruments, automated workflows, integrations with different apps, and rather more. Calendar is a pure subsequent step. Possibly subsequent, Notion will attempt to kill e-mail. Or presentation instruments. Or perhaps it’ll tackle Excel to attempt to down the long-reigning productiveness champion as soon as and for all.