Todoist is one of the longest-standing task management apps (founded in 2007!). You get exactly what you'd expect from Todoist — the ability to create tasks, prioritize them, and organize them with labels. You can view your tasks in a list, kanban view, or calendar view (paid tier).

With the rising popularity of time blocking, Todoist has received immense pressure from it's customers to build a calendar view and allow for task time blocking. That said, time blocking is a secondary feature to Todoist and is quite barebones compared to other daily planners. Many folks integrate Todoist with Sunsama or Akiflow for the full daily planning experience.

If considering Todoist for business, whether you're an individual or a team, there are better task management apps available that will give you more productivity power (e.g. other tools that will allow you to schedule meetings, time block tasks, manage projects, see your workload, and collaborate with team members), so as a heads up, make sure to consider those before diving head first into Todoist for business.

Notion Calendar is part of the greater Notion ecosystem, but we want to be clear: while we highly recommend Notion Calendar as an actual calendar app, we don't recommend it as a daily planner.

Since it integrates into Notion databases, you might be tempted to think, "Hey, I can drag database items (like tasks) onto my calendar to plan my day," but that idea is only good in theory, not in reality.

If you're a deep Notion power user who already manages your life inside databases, this might feel convenient. Everything lives in one ecosystem. You build tasks in Notion, then place them on your calendar. And for you, sure, that can work.

But if you're reading this and you're not using Notion for tasks, don't start (see our Notion review as to why). And certainly do not sign up for Notion Calendar thinking it can be a good daily planner when integrated with Notion just cause it's free. I promise you, this is the path of perceived productivity rather than something actually useful that will move your business forward.

This is one of those tools that feels productive on the surface, but in reality, slows you down. It looks clean, it feels flexible, but you're doing all the work manually. You're not actually getting help planning your day, you're just spending hours organizing it.

Compared to tools like Sunsama or Akiflow, Notion Calendar lacks structured daily planning rituals. It's the complete opposite of Motion; there’s no AI scheduling or workload management. Instead, it's all on you to manage. Bottom line, it's a good calendar, but it's not a daily planning solution.

• Ideal for Notion power users
• Deep integration with Notion databases

• Not built specifically for daily planning
• Not ideal for scalable business task management

Notion Calendar, originally Cron, was and is an insanely well-designed calendar. But since Notion acquired it, they updated it to include other Notion products (e.g. connecting Notion databases like tasks, projects, and more, directly into your calendar). You can drag Notion pages onto specific time slots on your calendar.

Notion did make it fairly simple and straightforward to use. Whatever tasks you do create can be put into time blocks on your calendar.

The problem with that is it's fully manual. There's no AI rescheduling coming to save the day or an adaptive reschedule to dig you out of your missed workload. There are far better tools that can help you reprioritize your tasks.

Now this is the one redeeming feature. Notion Calendar itself is genuinely good replacement for Google Calendar or Outlook. You can manage all of your calendars, get a good view of your availability, and handle your meetings.

• Free: Best for individual power users very familiar with Notion databases
• Paid: Best for Notion users who want to unlock advanced database features and team functionality (comes as a part of your Notion plan).