Notion customers have been asking for an built-in calendar system for years. Now, Notion delivers: It is releasing Notion Calendar, a standalone app that integrates with all Notion databases and notes. It is yet one more method Notion tries to be the one app your enterprise must do nearly all the things.
In the event you’ve ever used Cron, the calendar app Notion bought in 2022 and has been working since then, you principally already know the Notion Calendar enterprise. It is only a redesigned model of the app, with the notion. Cron has at all times been a quick, easy, and exquisite calendar with some good options like Calendly-style reserving instruments and a command bar you need to use to shortly arrange recurring appointments and the like. One characteristic I notably like: In the event you use a number of calendars, it’s going to robotically lock your work appointments into your private calendar and vice versa, so others cannot double ebook you. It is a full consumer instrument, nevertheless it’s a great calendar app.
The large new characteristic that comes with the rebrand is Notion integration. In the event you or your organization makes use of Notion, you’ll create or hyperlink Notion paperwork right into a calendar invitation. In case you have a database filled with due dates, you may add it as a calendar to Notion Calendar. It looks as if a significantly better technique to handle agendas and notes than sending them earlier than and after a gathering or searching them down in Slack. Placing all the things within the calendar occasion is an efficient transfer.
The draw back of Cron and Notion Calendar at launch is that they do not help all of the instruments that individuals truly use. The app is coming to Mac, Home windows, and iOS at first, and Notion says Android will come later. It additionally would not help Outlook, which instantly implies that a big share of companies that use Workplace merely cannot use Notion Calendar. Like many trendy productiveness instruments, Cron was constructed for tech professionals utilizing Macs and iPhones, however that is not for many enterprise folks.
Notion normally is a reasonably cross-platform app, so I might anticipate it to start out supporting different platforms fairly quickly. The corporate is on a mission to be the one app your organization must do enterprise—launching AI options, messaging and commenting instruments, automated workflows, integrations with different apps, and extra. The calendar is a pure subsequent step. Possibly subsequent, Notion will attempt to destroy the e-mail. Or presentation instruments. Or perhaps he’ll want Excel to try to dethrone the previous champion of productiveness as soon as and for all.