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title: "Introducing Notion Calendar – an integrated calendar for work and life"
description: "Notion has renamed Cron as Notion Calendar, introducing a calendar designed to connect work and personal time with the rest of a Notion workspace. It links meetings to Notion documents, project timelines, task due dates, and database items, while integrating with Google Calendar, Zoom, and Google Meet. Focus-oriented features include a computer menu-bar view for schedules and meeting access, plus command-menu controls and keyboard shortcuts; event blocking and auto-blocking combine commitments across calendars and prevent scheduling conflicts, while a built-in scheduling tool shares availability. The product is available now for free, and the announcement says its longer-term vision is to bring a time layer to notes, projects, and tasks across Notion."
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# Introducing Notion Calendar – an integrated calendar for work and life

[Notion](https://yomu.fyi/company/notion) · Raphael Schaad · Jan 17, 2024

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Notion has renamed Cron as Notion Calendar, introducing a calendar designed to connect work and personal time with the rest of a Notion workspace. It links meetings to Notion documents, project timelines, task due dates, and database items, while integrating with Google Calendar, Zoom, and Google Meet. Focus-oriented features include a computer menu-bar view for schedules and meeting access, plus command-menu controls and keyboard shortcuts; event blocking and auto-blocking combine commitments across calendars and prevent scheduling conflicts, while a built-in scheduling tool shares availability. The product is available now for free, and the announcement says its longer-term vision is to bring a time layer to notes, projects, and tasks across Notion.

## Context

The announcement describes calendars as disconnected from other tools, leaving meetings separate from project timelines and work calendars unaware of personal plans. This can contribute to missed deadlines, double-booking, and context switching when people manage work and personal time separately.

## Approach / What changed

Notion Calendar connects meetings with Notion documents, project timelines, task due dates, and database items, while integrating with Google Calendar, Zoom, and Google Meet. It adds menu-bar schedule access, keyboard shortcuts, event blocking across calendars, auto-blocking, and a scheduling tool for sharing availability.

## Takeaways

- Events can be connected to Notion pages and database items, allowing documents, project timelines, and deadlines to be opened or viewed from the calendar.
- The menu-bar view, command menu, and keyboard shortcuts are intended to reduce context switching when checking schedules or joining virtual meetings.
- Event blocking and auto-blocking combine work and personal commitments while hiding private event details from colleagues booking time.

**Tags:** [Notion](https://yomu.fyi/topic/notion), [Productivity](https://yomu.fyi/topic/productivity)

- Source: [Notion](https://www.notion.com/en-gb/blog/introducing-notion-calendar)
- Source URL: https://www.notion.com/en-gb/blog/introducing-notion-calendar
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-09T05:20:32.536Z

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