Notion's new calendar + 5 ways to use it

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Jan 24, 2024

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🌶 5 creative ways to use Notion Calendar

If you haven’t been under a rock, you would have seen the new Notion Calendar, which lets you see dates from across your Notion workspaces and Google Calendars in one place. It’s available as apps on iOS, MacOs and as a web app in your browser.

Wherever you have a calendar or timeline view in Notion, you will have the option to add this to your personal Notion calendar. Additionally, you can add filtered views to the calendar e.g. a view of tasks that haven’t been marked as ‘done’ or tasks assigned to you.

Here are 5 ideas of calendars/timelines to add to your Notion Calendar, that you already may have in Notion , so you don’t miss a thing:

Team/client tasks
Invoice deadlines
Company-wide calendars
Trip itineraries
Journal entries (check out my example)

How are you using Notion Calendar?

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