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G Suite is ubiquitous for a reason. It's easy to use, has massive integrations, and it makes it simple and fast to set up calls, meetings, events, and projects in Google Calendar.

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Notion is another of the most powerful tools on the market today. It gives users free rein over a huge variety of structures and functionality and making it easy to construct company wikis, take notes, clip from the web, and manage projects and tasks.

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What do you get when you put them together?

While there are big areas of overlap—you can use Notion as a document creation tool, and you can use G Suite as a fairly bare but perfectly functional project management tool—most users are best off with both. Unfortunately, they don't integrate well, meaning we have to find our own ways of tying them together. We'll get to that in a moment, but first: what is Notion, exactly, and why would you want to integrate it with Calendar?

Notion: A (very) brief overview

Printable niagara wine trail map. Before we get into using Notion with Google Calendar, let's take a very brief look at what Notion it is and how it works. (If you'd like a less brief look, there's a beginner's guide to the tool here.)

In this post, I'm going to keep it as simple as possible: Notion was first designed as a codeless app-building tool. As a result, it's unusual amongst modern software because it wasn't designed to do anything in particular. Instead, it contains simple templates for functionality like Kanban boards, calendars, and databases, letting you build your own systems inside it.

The basic building blocks of Notion are the page, where everything happens, and the block, a section of a page. There are over 50 blocks, with everything from simple text to databases.

Notion combines a free link-based structure similar to the web with a more traditional hierarchical file structure. As a result, Notion makes it really easy to build workflows, knowledge bases, wikis, and a lot more—but it doesn't necessarily excel any one of these things.

Let's look at the calendar function inside Notion and compare it with G Suite's offering.

Notion calendars

Notion has calendar functionality built in: you can create a calendar with a single click, either as a block…

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…or as a page.

Once you've created a calendar inside Notion, you can add tasks to the calendar. Notion is much more versatile than Google Calendars in terms of what you can do with tasks.

For example, a Google calendar task lets you add:

  • Location
  • Notifications
  • Busy status
  • Guests
  • Calls (including through third-party integrations)
  • Color coding
  • Event scheduling
  • Files as attachments
  • Links
  • Text and images

By contrast, on the back of a Notion calendar task, you can do all that plus a lot more. Notion will let you add a whole nother calendar to a calendar task.

You can add to-do lists, Kanbans, files, and embedded audio and video—in short, if you can add it to a Notion page you can add it to a Notion calendar task, because Notion doesn't see a difference. Like any other Notion page, a calendar task is just a place to put blocks.

With all of this functionality, it sounds like Notion actually has the edge as a calendaring app—so why wouldn't you just move all your calendaring over to it and leave G Suite behind?

Why keep Google Calendar if Notion has the same functionality?

If Notion has the same functionality as Google Calendar, but is a lot more versatile, why use G Suite's offering at all?

The trouble with this reasoning is that Notion doesn't replicate some really crucial Google Calendar functionality.

In particular, you miss out on:

Email integration

Without integration with email, Notion calendar is rendered significantly less useful. G Suite lets you add tasks to calendar direct from your inbox:

The Create event function lets you jump an email over to Calendar as an event with a due date and reminders attached in a couple of clicks.

This can be really helpful if email is your primary communication tool. Notion assumes that you'll do your communication and collaboration inside Notion—which would probably work great if everyone used it. In fact, most people don't; they do have a Gmail or corporate email address, though.

Calendaring

Google Calendar integrates with other calendars and lets you schedule, plan, and collaborate on organization. It lets you share calendars with other Google users, delegate calendars, and create mailing groups for events right from Gmail, with seamless support from Google Calendar.

You can even use it as a bare-bones project management system. While you can do this to a greater extent in Notion, everyone has to have a Notion account to make it work.

Calendly and other tools

If you've never used Calendly, here it is:

There are plenty of other tools that do a similar job: Calendly lets you send someone a list of times you're available, so they can choose one without both of you spending half the day emailing each other to set up a ten-minute phone call.

You send a schedule, the other person picks a time when you've already declared you're available, then you both get an email invite and a task automatically added to your Google Calendar.

It's a great feature that's dependant on Google Calendars being open and highly integrative; Notion cannot replicate it.

Hangouts integration

Google Calendars integrates with Hangouts to such an extent that the default event in a Calendar is a Hangouts or Google Meet video call.

This isn't true of Notion, and while you could easily paste a link in a Notions calendar, it points to a much deeper issue.

Integration with the rest of the G Suite ecosystem

Notion doesn't integrate with the G Suite ecosystem. Google Calendar is tightly bound up with it, in ways that save users a ton of wasted time and effort. Notion treats all files pretty much the same way, so you can easily embed Docs and Sheets:

But there's no actual integration.

It's worth bearing in mind that Notion can do a ton of things that Google can't do. It's a lot more fluid and flexible, and it gives you functionality that Google cannot match—look at the difference between a Google Doc and a Notion Page and you'll see what I mean. But it can't stand up to G Suite for communications and productivity.

Notion for structure, G Suite for content

For most users, it probably makes sense to use the two tools for what they're best at: use Notion to structure and find files and links, and use G Suite for communication and productivity. Embed what you need from Google into Notion to accelerate workflows.

Notion is an absolutely fantastic tool for building structures quickly and simply. If you find you need to adjust them on the fly that's easy too, and any kind of content can be embedded.

In fact, that's the best way to tie Google calendar into Notion: embed it in a Page. Here's how.

3 steps to embed Google calendars in Notion

Here's how to embed Google Calendars in Notion, quickly and easily.

Step 1: Get the Calendar URL

Find the URL of the calendar you want to embed. You might be embedding multiple delegated or shared calendars, or you might be embedding your company's master calendar in Notion. It doesn't matter: every Google Calendar has a public URL under Calendar Settings:

Copy that.

Note that you'll also need to set your calendar's availability to 'Make available to public' and make sure you select 'See all event details.'

Step 2: Open Notion

Go to the Notion page you want to embed your calendar in. I'm embedding this Google Calendar in a dummy sales wiki on Notion:

Step 3: Embed!

Go to the location on that page that you want to embed the calendar, and enter the /embed command or open the block menu and select Embed.

Drop the Google Calendar URL into Notion and hit Return, and your calendar should be embedded in the page.

This is a read-only version of your calendar—you won't be able to add events to it. And there's often some lag between adding new events in Google and them showing up in Notion. You don't need to add the URL as a link under the calendar, though: Notion will just let you click on the calendar and be taken to Google's public calendar page.

© Thomas Barwick/Getty Images You can sync your Google Calendar to Outlook on a Mac or PC. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images
  • You can sync your Google Calendar to the Outlook desktop app for Mac by adding your Google account and PC by importing your calendar.
  • You can also sync your Google Calendar to your Outlook.com account.
  • If you have a paid G Suite account, you can use the G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook tool.
  • Outlook can automatically sync with a Google Calendar when you use Outlook on mobile devices for iOS and Android operating systems.

If you use Outlook and Google calendars to manage your life, syncing them is critical to avoiding conflicts and ensuring you don't miss planned events or calls.

How you add a Google Calendar to your Outlook account depends on what platform you're using. You can import your calendar, add your entire Google account to your Microsoft desktop app, or add a calendar while logged into your Outlook account.

If you want to sync your Google Calendar to Outlook, here are three ways to do it.

Check out the products mentioned in this article:

Microsoft Office (From $149.99 at Best Buy)

Apple Macbook Pro (From $1,299.00 at Apple)

Acer Chromebook 15 (From $179.99 at Walmart)

How to sync your Google Calendar on Outlook.com

1. Open Google Calendar.

2. In the left-hand column, hover over the calendar you want to add to Outlook.

3. Click the three dots beside the calendar.

4. Select 'Settings and sharing.'

© Abbey White/Business Insider You can only add one Google Calendar to Outlook at a time, though you can sync as many as you want. Abbey White/Business Insider

5. On the Settings page, scroll to the 'Integrate calendar' section

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…or as a page.

Once you've created a calendar inside Notion, you can add tasks to the calendar. Notion is much more versatile than Google Calendars in terms of what you can do with tasks.

For example, a Google calendar task lets you add:

  • Location
  • Notifications
  • Busy status
  • Guests
  • Calls (including through third-party integrations)
  • Color coding
  • Event scheduling
  • Files as attachments
  • Links
  • Text and images

By contrast, on the back of a Notion calendar task, you can do all that plus a lot more. Notion will let you add a whole nother calendar to a calendar task.

You can add to-do lists, Kanbans, files, and embedded audio and video—in short, if you can add it to a Notion page you can add it to a Notion calendar task, because Notion doesn't see a difference. Like any other Notion page, a calendar task is just a place to put blocks.

With all of this functionality, it sounds like Notion actually has the edge as a calendaring app—so why wouldn't you just move all your calendaring over to it and leave G Suite behind?

Why keep Google Calendar if Notion has the same functionality?

If Notion has the same functionality as Google Calendar, but is a lot more versatile, why use G Suite's offering at all?

The trouble with this reasoning is that Notion doesn't replicate some really crucial Google Calendar functionality.

In particular, you miss out on:

Email integration

Without integration with email, Notion calendar is rendered significantly less useful. G Suite lets you add tasks to calendar direct from your inbox:

The Create event function lets you jump an email over to Calendar as an event with a due date and reminders attached in a couple of clicks.

This can be really helpful if email is your primary communication tool. Notion assumes that you'll do your communication and collaboration inside Notion—which would probably work great if everyone used it. In fact, most people don't; they do have a Gmail or corporate email address, though.

Calendaring

Google Calendar integrates with other calendars and lets you schedule, plan, and collaborate on organization. It lets you share calendars with other Google users, delegate calendars, and create mailing groups for events right from Gmail, with seamless support from Google Calendar.

You can even use it as a bare-bones project management system. While you can do this to a greater extent in Notion, everyone has to have a Notion account to make it work.

Calendly and other tools

If you've never used Calendly, here it is:

There are plenty of other tools that do a similar job: Calendly lets you send someone a list of times you're available, so they can choose one without both of you spending half the day emailing each other to set up a ten-minute phone call.

You send a schedule, the other person picks a time when you've already declared you're available, then you both get an email invite and a task automatically added to your Google Calendar.

It's a great feature that's dependant on Google Calendars being open and highly integrative; Notion cannot replicate it.

Hangouts integration

Google Calendars integrates with Hangouts to such an extent that the default event in a Calendar is a Hangouts or Google Meet video call.

This isn't true of Notion, and while you could easily paste a link in a Notions calendar, it points to a much deeper issue.

Integration with the rest of the G Suite ecosystem

Notion doesn't integrate with the G Suite ecosystem. Google Calendar is tightly bound up with it, in ways that save users a ton of wasted time and effort. Notion treats all files pretty much the same way, so you can easily embed Docs and Sheets:

But there's no actual integration.

It's worth bearing in mind that Notion can do a ton of things that Google can't do. It's a lot more fluid and flexible, and it gives you functionality that Google cannot match—look at the difference between a Google Doc and a Notion Page and you'll see what I mean. But it can't stand up to G Suite for communications and productivity.

Notion for structure, G Suite for content

For most users, it probably makes sense to use the two tools for what they're best at: use Notion to structure and find files and links, and use G Suite for communication and productivity. Embed what you need from Google into Notion to accelerate workflows.

Notion is an absolutely fantastic tool for building structures quickly and simply. If you find you need to adjust them on the fly that's easy too, and any kind of content can be embedded.

In fact, that's the best way to tie Google calendar into Notion: embed it in a Page. Here's how.

3 steps to embed Google calendars in Notion

Here's how to embed Google Calendars in Notion, quickly and easily.

Step 1: Get the Calendar URL

Find the URL of the calendar you want to embed. You might be embedding multiple delegated or shared calendars, or you might be embedding your company's master calendar in Notion. It doesn't matter: every Google Calendar has a public URL under Calendar Settings:

Copy that.

Note that you'll also need to set your calendar's availability to 'Make available to public' and make sure you select 'See all event details.'

Step 2: Open Notion

Go to the Notion page you want to embed your calendar in. I'm embedding this Google Calendar in a dummy sales wiki on Notion:

Step 3: Embed!

Go to the location on that page that you want to embed the calendar, and enter the /embed command or open the block menu and select Embed.

Drop the Google Calendar URL into Notion and hit Return, and your calendar should be embedded in the page.

This is a read-only version of your calendar—you won't be able to add events to it. And there's often some lag between adding new events in Google and them showing up in Notion. You don't need to add the URL as a link under the calendar, though: Notion will just let you click on the calendar and be taken to Google's public calendar page.

© Thomas Barwick/Getty Images You can sync your Google Calendar to Outlook on a Mac or PC. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images
  • You can sync your Google Calendar to the Outlook desktop app for Mac by adding your Google account and PC by importing your calendar.
  • You can also sync your Google Calendar to your Outlook.com account.
  • If you have a paid G Suite account, you can use the G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook tool.
  • Outlook can automatically sync with a Google Calendar when you use Outlook on mobile devices for iOS and Android operating systems.

If you use Outlook and Google calendars to manage your life, syncing them is critical to avoiding conflicts and ensuring you don't miss planned events or calls.

How you add a Google Calendar to your Outlook account depends on what platform you're using. You can import your calendar, add your entire Google account to your Microsoft desktop app, or add a calendar while logged into your Outlook account.

If you want to sync your Google Calendar to Outlook, here are three ways to do it.

Check out the products mentioned in this article:

Microsoft Office (From $149.99 at Best Buy)

Apple Macbook Pro (From $1,299.00 at Apple)

Acer Chromebook 15 (From $179.99 at Walmart)

How to sync your Google Calendar on Outlook.com

1. Open Google Calendar.

2. In the left-hand column, hover over the calendar you want to add to Outlook.

3. Click the three dots beside the calendar.

4. Select 'Settings and sharing.'

© Abbey White/Business Insider You can only add one Google Calendar to Outlook at a time, though you can sync as many as you want. Abbey White/Business Insider

5. On the Settings page, scroll to the 'Integrate calendar' section

6. Copy the 'Secret address in iCal format' link.

© Abbey White/Business Insider This link will be pasted into Outlook. Abbey White/Business Insider

7. Log in to Outlook.com and click the calendar icon in the left sidebar.

© Abbey White/Business Insider This icon will be to the left of your Inbox folders list. Abbey White/Business Insider

8. Click 'Add calendar.'

9. Choose 'Subscribe from the web' in the left-hand column.

10. Paste the 'Secret address in iCal format' link.

11. Title the calendar and then click 'Import.'

© Abbey White/Business Insider If you don't title the calendar you won't be able to import it. Abbey White/Business Insider

How to sync your Google Calendar on Outlook for Windows

1. Go to https://calendar.google.com.

2. Click on the gear icon in the upper-right.

© Abbey White/Business Insider You can find this option in the upper-right next to your profile icon and the month dropdown. Abbey White/Business Insider

3. Select 'Settings' from the drop-down menu that appears.

4. Choose 'Import & Export' in the left sidebar.

5. Select 'Export' to download a zipped .ics file of your Calendar content.

© Abbey White/Business Insider A downloading link should appear at the bottom of your browser screen. Abbey White/Business Insider

6. Launch Microsoft Outlook.

Sony a7iii shutter count check online. 7. Click 'File' in the upper menu bar.

8. Select Open & Export from the left sidebar.

9. Click the 'Import/Export' option.

© Abbey White/Business Insider The third icon down features green and blue arrows. Abbey White/Business Insider

10. In the pop-up window that appears, click 'Import an iCalendar (.ics) or vCalendar file (.vcs)' before selecting 'Next.'

© Abbey White/Business Insider This is the file format that matches your Google Calendar download. Abbey White/Business Insider

11. In the file window, locate and select the zipped folder you downloaded for Google Calendar before clicking 'Open.'

12. Choose 'Import' in the window that appears to bring your Google Calendar items into your Microsoft Calendar. You can also choose to create a new calendar in Outlook.

© Abbey White/Business Insider Your Google Calendar will not be visible in Microsoft Outlook. Abbey White/Business Insider

How to sync your Google Calendar on Outlook for Mac

1. Launch Microsoft Outlook.

2. Click on 'Outlook' in the top toolbar.

3. Select 'Preferences' from the drop-down menu.

© Abbey White/Business Insider This option will be directly beneath 'About Outlook.' Abbey White/Business Insider

4. Choose 'Accounts.'

© Abbey White/Business Insider This section stores all the accounts you have connected to Outlook. Abbey White/Business Insider

5. Click on the '+' icon at the bottom of the left sidebar.

© Abbey White/Business Insider This will let you add or create a new account. Abbey White/Business Insider

6. Select 'New Account.'

7. In the login window that appears, enter the Gmail account associated with the Google Calendar you want to sync then press 'Continue.'

© Abbey White/Business Insider The email doesn't have to be associated with Microsoft Outlook. Abbey White/Business Insider

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8. Choose 'Continue' to authorize your Gmail account to be synced to the Microsoft Cloud.

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9. A new browser window will open with a list of your Google Accounts. Select the email account you want to sync to Outlook.

© Abbey White/Business Insider Choose the Google account you want to sync. Abbey White/Business Insider

1o. On the next page, click 'Allow' to authorize Microsoft Apps & Services to have access to your Google Calendar.

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11. Select 'Open Microsoft Account' in the pop-up window that appears.

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12. Click 'Done' after your account has been added.

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13. Click the Calendar icon at the bottom of Outlook's left sidebar to see your Google Calendar events in your Microsoft Calendar.

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