[Music] I know I'm a little late to the party but notion released the calendar and I want to talk about it on January 17th of this year notion announced notion calendar which is a new feature designed to enhance productivity and organization which is right up my alley this tool allows you to manage your schedule create events and seamlessly integrates with other notion features including notion Ai and notion database calendars and you guys know that I love my Google Calendar but honestly this is a bit of a game changer so today I'm going to introduce you to nocean calendar showing you its layout all of its cool features and how I personally use it to organize my everyday life this is nocean calendar so to download the calendar you can either download the desktop app here here or you can access it through the web by visiting calendar. notion.so so once you download the notion calendar it should look a little something like this and you can appreciate that this looks a lot like my Google Calendar because this is my Google Calendar one of the best parts of notion calendar is your ability to connect it to your pre-existing Google Calendar and have all of our meetings and events there show up here to make this connection you can go ahead and click this add calendar account button right here press press this button and follow all of the steps to connect your Google calendar and it's going to look like this so now I'm going to give a brief overview of the layout starting out with the main calendar here in the middle here we have all the days in the week and the hours in the day and we have all of these blocks representing our various meetings events and other commitments just looking at it I love the aesthetic of this calendar it's so clean and minimalistic which is really important to me because I look at this calendar at least 10 times a day to create an event you you can do one of three things you can press C you can double click on the calendar or you can drag the allotted time slot on the calendar like this from there you can change the name of the event you can change the start time and the end time you can customize the time zone and you can also set it up as a recurring event if necessary so let's say I want this to be done every week I can just click it like that and I'll see it appear next week again you can also set up participants set up a Google meet Zoom or Microsoft teams conferencing link you can connect a location and very excitingly link an existing notion page you guys know me I'm obsessed with notion I've made a couple videos on it I've been using it for years and now with this it's so great because it seamlessly integrates with your pre-existing notion workspace so you're able to link things like meeting notes into the notion calendar and now that we're on the topic of notion Pages now is the perfect time to talk a little bit about notion Ai and I am so freaking excited to say that this part of the video is sponsored by notion yay so notion AI is a powerful tool that uses artificial intelligence to enhance your productivity it helps me get my work done so much faster by completing very timeconsuming tasks within a number of seconds with notion AI you can automate tasks get predictive text suggestions draft scripts and outlines edit your writing and so much more to activate notion AI you can do it one of two ways you can click space on new line to open it or you can highlight the pre-existing text and click ask Ai and here are some ways that I use it so as a medical student I attend a lot of meetings and it can be so overwhelming prepping for these meetings sifting through the meeting notes and keeping on top of all of the action items and this is where notion AI comes in this little assistant is perfect for all my pre- meting prep with notion AI I can draft up a meeting agenda I can brainstorm project ideas I can draft timelines and outlines of all of my projects and if I have interviews coming up I can ask it to improve answers I've prepared for the interview questions and I don't know about you guys but I'm a slow typer so whenever I'm taking meeting notes it ends up being a little bit chaotic in there and since I never have it in me to actually go back and reorganize my meeting notes this is where notion AI comes in once again for previous meetings I can ask it to summarize the meeting notes ask get Define action items and you can also create AI blocks for the summary and the action items to put on top of your meeting notes and so every time you have a new meeting or you add more information to the meeting notes you can just update it and generate new summaries and action items so convenient and also now as a YouTuber notion AI has been such a big help for drafting scripts coming up with video outlines and making titles and descriptions I use it to make an outline of the video with all the topics I'm going to cover for example I asked it to list out all of the features of notion calendar and use that to outline this video I also use it to to improve my scripts it can fix your spelling and grammar can make things shorter or longer change the tone simplify the language or just improve your writing overall and it's also great for all the nitty-gritty work that goes into YouTube such as brainstorming YouTube titles coming up with descriptions drafting business emails and so much more so that's just a brief overview of what notion AI is and how I use it in my notion pages and connected to my notion calendar as you can see I am very deeply entrenched in the notion ecosystem it's been such a game changer in my personal life in my academics and in my YouTube career and it's just been a great personal assistant to help me manage everything that I've got going on you can get started with notion for free and unlock the power of AI for only $10 a month and you can find more information about that in the description below thanks so so much again to notion for sponsoring this part of the video and let's get back to notion calendar much like with notion works baces there are a lot of different shortcuts that you can use to navigate going back and and forth between the different features my favorite one is command K which opens up the shortcut menu where you're able to jump to different commands that you can see here let's splitz through the others that I commonly use you can press T to go back to the current date your J or your left Arrow will jump a week ahead or a month ahead depending on what view you have K will jump a week behind n brings you to your next upcoming event which is my 8k tomorrow D brings you to the day view w brings you to the week view and M brings you to the month view overall I find the calendar super duper intuitive it is so easy to drag events and reschedule them to either different times in the day or different days in the week entirely you can also easily toggle different parts of the calendar if you want to hide or show different things and I also find that its design is just so thoughtful you can change the time zone here in the top left corner and you can also add up to three different time zones which which is really helpful for example if you're working in a team and you have members from all around the world and you're trying to schedule meetings and here on the top right you can also change how many days you want to see in the default view so it's just super duper customizable I think it's so thoughtful I'm really into it so now let's talk about what is on the sidebars here on the left we have a mini calendar that allows you to toggle to different days and different weeks and different months of the year and below that here we have our different calendar accounts we can see my con Ed Google Calendar which is divided into meetings events personal All That Jazz you can check out my Google Calendar up here somewhere to see how I made that and since this is a notion calendar after all a really cool feature that they've added is that you're able to connect your calendar from your databases in your notion workspace to this notion calendar so let me explain here is my notion workspace you can see that in my homepage I have a to-do list over here that has both a table and a calendar viiew it has just all of my school responsibilities as well as a due date how many days are left you can see all of that in my notion video once again I'll put it somewhere up here you'll see that it has both a table View and a calendar view and when you click the calendar view there's an option to open it in your notion calendar and so now all of my to-do list that I've set up in my notion database is now visible in my notion calendar right up here and this is so great because it centralizes now all of my personal events my academics and now my to-do list all in one place and this is also great for my content planner which is what I use to organize the production timeline of my YouTube videos so here you can see that for this notion calendar video I have filming editing publishing and all of my deadlines for it once again it has a calendar view with a button that allows it to open up in my notion calendar and you can see all of it right here and the really great thing with this is that everything is very synced so if you make any changes to the name or the date or the time that change change will be reflected both in the notion calendar and also in the database so for example if I wanted to publish my notion calendar on the 8th instead of the ninth you'll see that if I drag this here that change will be reflected in my workspace and same thing if I wanted to change it back over here to the 9th you'll see that that change will also be made on the notion calendar and I don't know I just think that this is so cool especially from a productivity and workflow point of view the reason why I love notion and why I've been using it for for years is that it's really an all-in-one database for me to connect all of my responsibilities I like having everything in one place so it stays organized and having this connection between my calendar and my notion workspace just took that one step further and finally let's talk about all the cool features that are in the right sidebar and trust me when I say that these are pretty cool so you know when you're trying to find a meeting time that works with everybody so you have to find the dates and times where you're free send it to them find their availability and it's just an nightmare trying to coordinate it well notion has this feature called a scheduling snippet where you're able to share your availability with others so if you click s on your keyboard or you press this button over here it allows you to chunk out times where you're available for your meeting and also just based on this block design it's so easy to see when you're free so for example I want to schedule a meeting I can see that I'm free on Saturday and I'm free on Friday evening and if we look here on the right we can see that notion has drafted a little snippet for us listing the dates and times that you're available for the meeting and then we can just press create over here and we've blocked out that time to show our availability for this meeting and not only that but a crazy feature is that it creates this link that you can share with others and if you click it you'll see that it's kind of like calendly which allows them to pick a time for the meeting based on your availability it's insane so now you're able to share this l link with all of your collaborators and they're able to pick a time based on what you've designated as available in your schedule so let's say I send this to my friend they're available at 8:15 they can click that they're going to enter their email and then it will be placed in my calendar it's so cool there's also an option called quick meeting which you can access by clicking F on your keyboard or clicking this button over here it allows you to search up a contact that you want to create a meeting with if you connect your Zoom account to your notion calendar you can click this conferencing button click zoom and it automatically creates a zoom link for you from there you can add other details like the location add a relevant notion page that's connected to the meeting you can also add a description and set reminders before the meeting starts so as you can see notion calendar really just automates a lot of those little details that take up a lot of time in your day whether it be trying to find times that are available for everybody for meetings or even creating Zoom links this automates everything finally another feature that I love love is that notion calendar puts your upcoming events in this menu bar on top of your computer so you can see your upcoming event and how much time it is until then I have to sleep very soon cuz my 8k is in 5 and 1/2 hours if you click it it also gives an overview of all of your upcoming event for the next couple of days and I love it because it kind of condenses all of this information and gives me a clear overview of everything that I have coming up so I can stay on top of all of my responsibilities so that was an overview of notion calendar I love its Aesthetics I love its functionality and even though it's technically still in its infancy I feel like it's made such vast improvements already to my productivity and my organization overall I hope you guys love it as much as I do and I hope you can find ways to allow notion calendar and notion AI to make your life just a little bit easier thank you guys so much for watching my videos and for supporting me who would have thought that little old me who was making a notion video just a couple months ago inner childhood bedroom is being sponsored by notion now this freaking rocks thank you so much for watching and as always I'll see you in the next one bye