Notion Calendar for Life System Design — Sync Your Life OS

A deep dive into Notion Calendar and how to integrate it with our Notion life system. This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on how to enhance our Notion Life Systems with next-level calendar apps.

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INDEX TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
3:47 Life OS + Cal App
5:51 Flow Chart Steps
7:32 Notion Calendar Overview
11:07 Notion Cal Database Integrations
22:00 Calendar Power Features
28:54 Closing Thoughts

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[ThomasLWoolsey]

THIS is what I was really waiting for, since Notion Calendar dropped, this video right here, thanks so much!

[Dirk]

I am using Notion with your Life System (Action Zone, Projects) (in South Africa, by the way) and it is very helpful. I got Notion Calendar, but now I am going to add it to my workflow, based on your explanation in this video. Thank you very much. You are doing an awesome job that should get more credit all over the world.

[MartinSchabbauer]

Thank you August for sharing and taking us with you on this Calendar journey. Your deep insights, communication skills and willingness to share and build a community are epic.

[BarryOGorman]

Thanks August - another excellent and well thought out presentation.

[prepos]

You are always the best. your videos are a turning point every time, never stop please!

p.s. a super interesting video for me (which I would have also liked to see during the first famous series of videos) is to see in practice how you "elaborate" a topic in the topics vault. in the sense of how you do "research", you look at the sources (the connected media), the notes, how you take the best pieces from the media and insert them into the dedicated topic (or more topics if there are more). in short, the practical process. because I often find it a bit difficult to do so in practice.

[DistractedSapien]

AB! Long time follower - thank you as always for your knowledge on life design. It's helped me achieve a lot.
I actually like that I can't check off tasks from the calendar as it's nice having a visual of what I worked on that day. But yes it would be nice to have additional properties displayed, especially a priority field to see tasks labelled "reminder" or "quick". I'm experimenting with turning many databases ("vaults") into task databases for the purpose of having a dedicated time blocks on the calendar. At the moment they are tasks, projects, and a courses & skills db with each entry as a template for easy duplicating on the calendar. We'll see how it goes!

[juliasommer]

King of Nation - Thank you! Great content! Love your stuff! Glad you are back :- )

[tomkregenbild]

Thanks for the great content and review. I think that the fact that there is no Android app for the calendar is the deal breaker for me

[GlobalEltorro]

Love how notion is integrating calendar features. However, it needs an Outlook integration as so many workplaces are dependent on it. Can you get on the notion developers for this? 😤

[ryanball.foodphotographer]

Thanks for the video very informative. My main gripe with Notion Calendar is the iOS app. It’s unusable in its current state as there is no weekly or monthly view. It only allows a three day view, which for me is a real problem when scheduling in work. Hopefully they address this, but it’s been some time now and no update so far. 😢

Looking forward to seeing your next video.

[breno]

I spent weeks learning the basics of notion, figuring out and building the structure of my system. It’s time someone created an actual (standalone) Life OS. Notion is good but not great, as a “does it all” tool, I don’t think it does best in this case.

[gajanandubey]

Thanks for this video, but it doesn't support Android so I can't continue with this. I'm waiting eagerly for the part 2 video.

[Mickaelovitch]

Thanks for all. When the new PPV courses?

[borisrezaire]

Hey august, great content like also! Do you advice to do the time blocking during the weekly review, or during a daily realignment routine the morning (or the night before)? Thanks

[morne.bester]

Did you ditch dinner with Jim and Karen to record this video?😂

[rowandish]

Thanks August for these videos, I find them very useful. I have difficulty creating tasks or time blocking for things that I have to do for a long time, for example taking a 40 hour online course. It is certainly not an "action zone" task as I will never be able to do it all in one day and therefore it will not have a "do date" but how can I divide it into several days and do time blocking in the calendar?

[youssefmo]

Is your icon pack available somewhere?

[fahimrahman]

I hate that the Notion Calendar doesn't integrate with Outlook. What is the other calendar app for the next video? Is it Morgen?

[mpfsyn]

I don't know why they lunch a different app as calendar the best calendar is google's one just copy it as it is and add it as new view to notion database and that's it don't reinvents the wheel

[FredrikParker]

Possible to write a python script to automatically time-block ? Need to know if it's possible for a python code to interact with Notion Calendar apart from UI Automation .