How to make a calendar in Notion

Productivity software, Notion, is used to track and monitor tasks, projects and store your documents online. Notion calendars are essentially databases that make it easy to see your information organized by date. If you want to know how to create a Notion calendar, we describe the steps in this article.

We also describe how you can create a weekly calendar, customize your calendar, and create different views when using Notion via desktop.

How to make a calendar in Notion?

To create a calendar view of an existing Notion table:

1. Start Notion and navigate to the table where you want to insert a calendar.
   
2. Click + New page in the lower left corner.
   
3. Click Calendar on the menu.
   
4. Choose + New database to insert a complete calendar.
   
5. You will now have a full view calendar.
   

You can also turn a table into a calendar. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Click on the three dots icon at the top right of your table title.
   
2. On the View menu, click Provision.
   
3. Select the “Calendar” view option.
   
   • Your calendar view will show your tasks by date.

How to make a weekly calendar in Notion?

To create a weekly agenda template using the combined board and calendar view:

1. Start Notion and create a board database view by entering “/board”.
   
2. Open “Card 1” and then click “Status.”
   
3. Click Edit property.
   
4. Change the “Select” property to “Multiple Selection” by clicking “Select” > “Multiple Selection”.
   
5. Then enter all days of the week by clicking the “Empty” field to the right of “Status.”
   • These will be the titles of the boards to move your tasks.
6. To remove the automatically included options: “Not started”, “In progress” and “Completed”. Click on them, then the three dots icon that appears and select “Delete” > “Delete.”
   
7. To display the day, click “Status” and enter “Day”, then “Multiple selection” > “Select”.
   
8. Click the three dots next to any previously completed information and click Delete.
   
9. Write down your days of the week. Then, click the three dots icon to color code them.
   
10. To change the assigned column to a date column, click “Assign” > “Person” > “Date.”
    
11. Click the “Empty” field to the right of “Assign” and select the date.
    
12. Click “Assign” and enter “Start of Week.”
    
    • Since we can’t use a selection property to change a date, we’ll use a formula to view the task in a calendar view:
13. Click “Add a property” and name the property “Date”, select “Text” in Property Type.
    
14. Select “Formula” and then click the “Empty” field to the right of the “Date” property.
    
15. Click the “Day” property. prop(“Day”) will appear in the “Enter a formula” text field at the top.
    
16. Next to the element (“Day”) enter == (two equal signs) Tuesday”).
    Then it reads:
    • prop (“Day”) == Tuesday”)
      
17. Now we need to add a day to the date column that we entered as “Start of Week”; otherwise it will always be Monday. For Tuesday, we will add one day to the original date. To do this:
18. Type ?dateAdd(prop(“Beginning of week”), 1, “days”): prop(“Beginning of week”)
    • With this, we ask, if the day is “Tuesday”, then add a day to the “Start of Week”, if it is not “Tuesday”, then use “Start of Week”:
      In total it says:
    • prop (“Day”) == Tuesday”) ?dateAdd(prop( “Beginning of the week”), 1, “days”) : prop(“Beginning of the week”)
      
19. Then select “Done.”
    
    • Click “Tuesday” and you will see that “Date” has changed to Tuesday’s date.
      
    • This formula will only work for Mondays and Tuesdays – for the rest of the week:
20. Click on the Date to open the Property window.
    
21. Then copy the following:
    prop (“Day”) == Tuesday”)?dateAdd(prop(“Beginning of the week”), 1, “days”): part of the formula.
    
22. Paste it before the following:
    prop(“Week Beginning”) part.
    In total it says:
    • prop (“Day”) == Tuesday” ) ? dateAdd(prop( “Week Beginning” ) ,1, “days”) : prop (“Day”) == Tuesday”) ? dateAdd(prop( “Week Beginning” ) ,1, “days”) : prop(“Week Beginning”)
      
23. Replace the second “Tuesday” with “Wednesday.”
    
24. Replace the second ,1, “days”) part with “2.”
    
    In total it says:
    • prop (“Day”) == Tuesday”) ? dateAdd(prop( “Week Beginning” ) ,1, “days”) : prop (“Day”) == Wednesday”) ? dateAdd(prop( “Week Beginning” ) ,2, “days”) : prop(“Week Beginning”)
      
25. Repeat steps 18 – 21 with the following:
    • “Thursday” adds 3 days
      
    • “Friday” adds 4 days
      
    • “Saturday” adds 5 days
      
    • “Sunday” adds 6 days
      
26. Then select “Done.”
    

How to delete a calendar in Notion

If you made a mistake and need to delete a calendar in Notion, you can do so. That is how:

1. Open Notion and navigate to the page with your calendar.
   
2. Click on the three points icon.
   
3. Click Delete view.
   

How to add a calendar to an existing page

If you want to insert a calendar on a page, here’s what you do:

1. Open the Notion page where you need to insert a calendar.
   
2. Click to insert text. Then write /calendar.
   
3. Select one of the options on the right.
   

Additional FAQs

Here are the answers to more questions about Notion calendars.

How do you create a calendar view in Notion?

To create a calendar view of an existing Notion table:

1. Start Notion and navigate to the table where you want to create the calendar view.

2. Make sure your table has at least one date column.

3. Click the “Add a View” button at the top left of your table title.

4. In the View menu, enter the name of your view.

5. Select the “Calendar” view option.

6. Then click the “Create” button.

· Your calendar view will show your tasks by date.

How do you make a custom calendar in Notion?

You can customize your Notion calendar in the following ways:

Editing properties

To define your calendar, you can use as many properties as you want to display the information you need and provide context:

1. Add a new card to your calendar and click “+ Add a property” on the page that opens. Or, from the top of your calendar, click “Properties” > “+ Add a property.”

2. Give the property a name and choose its type through the “Property Type” menu.

3. To delete or copy a property, to the left of it in the “Properties” menu, click the **⋮⋮** icon for property options.

Moving and stretching cards

You can rearrange the cards in your calendar by dragging and dropping:

· Select and hold any card to drag and drop it to any day on your calendar.

· To cover a card for several days:

1. Hover over its left or right edge.

2. Then click and drag it in any direction to expand it.

Showing, hiding, and sorting properties

You can decide which properties you want to display on your calendar cards. For example, assignment type or priority status, etc.:

· Select “Properties”, then click the switches next to the properties in your database to hide or show them.

· Use the **⋮⋮** icon to rearrange the order in which properties are displayed on your calendar cards by dragging them up or down in the “Properties” menu.

How do you add an event to a calendar in Notion?

You can add a new card for an event to your calendar in the following ways:

• To create a new event on a particular day, hover over the day and then click the “+” that appears.

• To create a new card that day[s] that you have specified through the date property that your calendar uses, click the “New” button at the top right.

• You can span an event over more than one day by placing the cursor on the right or left edge of the card and then dragging to expand it in the required direction.

How do I edit a calendar entry in Notion?

To edit a calendar entry:

1. Select the entry you want to edit from the calendar view.

2. The Notion page for the entry will be displayed.

3. Make your changes; They will be saved automatically.

How do you edit a calendar view in Notion?

To create a different view of your calendar:

1. Launch Notion and access your Calendar.

2. Click the “Add a view” option at the top left of the calendar.

3. Select the view you want from the drop-down list of options.

4. Give your new view a name and then press “Create.”

To create views that show the different filters applied to your calendar:

1. From the “Content Calendar” page.

2. Click the down arrow next to the newly created calendar view.

3. Select “Add a view” > “Calendar”, then enter its name and “Create”.

4. Select the “Filter” option from the “Properties” options to the right.

5. Click “Add Filter”.

6. Click the “Name” downward arrow to select the filter name.

7. Then click the downward arrow “Select an option” to select the filter option.

To switch between the different calendar views, click the down arrow just above your calendars on the left to access the “View menu.”

Increased productivity with Notion Calendars

The Notion app offers project management features like databases, Kanban boards, calendars, etc., to help with productivity and knowledge management. Calendars are useful for getting an overview of your schedules for releases, projects, and all your important dates.

Now that we’ve shown you how to create a Notion calendar, customize it, and set up different calendar views, has using the calendar helped you improve your productivity? What do you like and dislike about Notion calendars? We’d love to hear about your experience with Notion; Let us know in the comments p.