Notion Calendar

Notion Calendar has one of the most beautiful calendar interfaces, it genuinely set the bar for the entire calendar category. Every shade of color and component was meticulously designed, and for that, we have huge appreciation for the team who originally built it.

One feature Notion Calendar gets right is its flexible multi-day view. Instead of forcing you into rigid views like "Day" or "Week," you can simply press a number key (1-9) to instantly change how many days appear on screen. Want to focus on just today? Press 1. Planning the next few days? Press 3 or 5. It is a small interaction, but it makes the calendar feel much faster and more adaptable to how you actually plan your time 🔥

You can also scroll horizontally through the timeline, which makes navigating your schedule feel fluid rather than jumping between static pages. Instead of flipping through separate calendar views, it feels more like moving along a continuous timeline. These small UX choices do not reinvent the calendar, but they make everyday calendar use smoother.

Editing shared events is another area where Notion Calendar is impressive, and why we've ranked it as one of the best calendars. Because it sits on top of Google Calendar, it still inherits Google’s API limitations. For example, if someone else owns an event, you often cannot modify it directly, even if you have editing permissions.

Most third-party calendar apps simply accept this limitation and get you to open up Google Calendar to make modifications. But Notion Calendar implemented a clever workaround. By temporarily hiding your own calendar and switching the editing context, you can directly adjust the shared calendar instead. It is not a perfect solution, but it is a thoughtful improvement that makes collaboration feel less frustrating.

Notion Calendar was clearly built with keyboard-first workflows in mind. Press C to create an event, T to jump back to today, or type something like "8 weeks" to instantly jump to that date.

Instead of clicking through menus, you can move around your calendar almost entirely from the keyboard and just get things done.

One bonus for Notion users is that you can now use Notion Calendar to schedule your meetings via their meeting scheduling feature.

Notion Calendar is now available on across web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. That said, some features are expectedly more limited on iPhone and Android. For example, you're restricted to 1, 2, or 3 day views, so you do not get the same flexibility you have on desktop. The only things keeping us from fully using it on mobile is the lack of natural language event creation which some of the other best calendar apps have.

Here's how the integration with Notion works:

• Notion Calendar displays items from your Notion database within your calendar
• You can link Calendar events to Notion pages. For example, if you have a meeting, you can link a Notion page straight into the calendar event.
• You can view project timelines within Notion Calendar

With that, there are limitations. Your Notion pages must have time/date fields as a part of the page for them to display on your Notion Calendar.

In general, there has been a lot of hype from Notion about their new calendar launch, but when users realized they've simple swapped out the Cron logo for the Notion logo and added in a basic integration, they were left disappointed.