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Notion has announced the ‘Notion Calendar’. Notion Calendar succeeds Cron, a calendar service founded by Rafael Schad and acquired by Notion in 2022. We plan to go beyond the auxiliary calendar used in Notion and become the center of time management. Not only is it powerfully integrated with Notion, but it also has Cron-like usability with built-in Calendly, a scheduling service.
“Digital calendars are the primary way we deal with our days, and quite frankly, there hasn’t been a lot of innovation happening,” said Raphael Schaad, head of product at Notion Calendar. “Nothing has happened in the last 10 years.”
Notion Calendar is great for managing projects. It seems like a combination of Google Calendar, which manages schedules, and Atlassian, which manages projects. Your personal and work schedules are linked so you can adjust your schedules so they do not overlap. Once you create a schedule, you can immediately connect to the Notion page. You can also mark important schedules among projects managed in Notion separately on the calendar.
It is connected to Google Calendar, Google Meet, and Zoom, as well as the Arc web browser, which has recently become a hot topic. You can also add a link to your preferred conferencing tool platform. Microsoft Office 365 and iCloud are said to be included in the roadmap.
Notion Calendar can be used on the web and as an app. The desktop app is available for Mac (Intel), Mac (App Silicon), and Windows. The mobile app is available in the App Store. Android is still under development, he said.
Apple Calendar has been added to Notion's visual identity. The default font size looks a bit small. Interactive elements are expressed in Notion’s unique gray color and shadows on a white background.
The desktop app uses red as an accent color. The box representing the schedule is drawn with a dark line on the left, and the box is filled with a few levels of lower saturation. For detailed information, the selected schedule is displayed in white text on a dark background.
We have greatly improved what was lacking in Google Calendar when working on a project. When managing a project with Notion, the internal calendar was actually used only as a reference picture and a record for managers only, but now it seems to have become a schedule management tool that the team can use together. The vision of Notion growing into a company that can threaten the workspace powerhouse Google is gradually becoming clearer.
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