Notion Calendar Overview and Features

Summary

This meeting provided an overview and demonstration of Notion Calendar, highlighting its integration with Google Calendar and Notion databases, as well as key features to improve productivity and organization.
The session also covered the use of Notion AI for meeting prep, note summarization, and content creation.
New scheduling and availability features, user interface shortcuts, and customization options were discussed in detail.

(No explicit action items, owners, or due dates were assigned in the transcript.)

Notion Calendar was launched on January 17 and aims to improve productivity and organization.
The calendar can be accessed via desktop app or web interface.
Users can connect their Google Calendar, allowing all meetings and events to sync automatically.
Events can be created using keyboard shortcuts, double-clicking, or dragging to select time slots.

Full integration with Notion’s existing workspace enables linking of events to Notion pages, meeting notes, and to-do lists.
Notion Calendar supports recurring events, setting up video conferencing links (Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams), and participant management.
Event edits or scheduling changes in either Notion Calendar or Notion databases sync instantly across platforms.
Users can centralize personal, academic, and content planning calendars in one place.

Notion AI assists in automating repetitive tasks: drafting agendas, brainstorming, outlining, and preparing for meetings or interviews.
AI can clean up and summarize meeting notes, define action items, and directly generate summary/action item blocks within Notion documents.
In content creation, Notion AI helps with outlining, scripting, editing, and generating YouTube titles, descriptions, and emails.

The calendar’s layout is minimalistic and customizable, with easy toggles for hourly/daily/weekly/monthly views and multiple time zones.
Key shortcuts: Command K (shortcut menu), T (today), J/K (week/month navigation), N (upcoming event), D/W/M (day, week, month views).
The left sidebar provides a mini-calendar and account management (multiple calendars, e.g. work and personal).
The right sidebar offers advanced scheduling and collaboration features.

“Scheduling snippet” allows users to select and share availability for meetings via a unique link, functioning similarly to Calendly.
“Quick meeting” enables immediate scheduling with contacts and automatic video conferencing link generation.
Upcoming events are displayed in the system menu bar for at-a-glance reminders and organization.