What it does
Notion Calendar is a productivity tool that aims to unify a user's personal and professional schedules. It integrates with existing calendar accounts like Google and provides advanced features for remote and collaborative work. Its core strengths are its clean interface and powerful tools designed for professionals, such as side-by-side timezone views and intuitive event creation.
Where it shines
The app excels at handling complexity with elegance. Creating a new event by simply dragging a time block directly on the calendar grid (01:54) feels fast and intuitive, bypassing tedious forms. However, the standout feature is its multi-timezone management. At 07:44, the user adds a second timezone, and the calendar instantly renders a parallel time column. This visual solution completely eliminates the mental math required for scheduling across regions.
UX highlights
- The calendar grid allows direct manipulation. Users can drag to create and resize events, making scheduling feel fluid (01:54).
- Real-time password validation during sign-up provides clear, immediate feedback with satisfying checkmark animations (00:42).
- The "All-day" toggle contextually simplifies the event creation form, removing irrelevant time-pickers (04:21).
- The app offers granular control over recurring events, letting users edit or delete a single instance or the entire series (06:09).
- Users can quickly switch between 1, 2, or 3-day views from a simple menu, allowing for both focused and wider planning (07:16).
Monetization & growth
This video does not show any paywalls, subscription prompts, or monetization features. The app appears to be completely free to use. This suggests a strategy where the calendar acts as a complementary, value-adding product within the broader Notion ecosystem, aiming to draw users into their core paid offerings rather than monetizing directly.
Who it’s for
The app is clearly designed for professionals, knowledge workers, and distributed teams who manage complex schedules. Its focus on efficiency, clarity, and timezone management directly addresses the pain points of remote work. It will appeal most to power users who find default calendar apps too simplistic for their needs.
Notes & opportunities
The app shows some potential stability issues, with "Creating event failed" (03:51) and "Updating event failed" (06:44) error messages appearing. While the UI is generally clean, the flow for duplicating a recurring event (04:41) could be improved. It creates a copy without an immediate prompt to edit, requiring the user to manually find and tap the new event to make changes.