Here's the thing about Notion Calendar that drove me crazy for months: that massive right panel.
Every time I opened an event, a third of my screen got hijacked by event details. And look, I get it—some people have sprawling monitors where screen real estate isn't precious. But I run a narrow calendar window on my desktop because I'm usually juggling multiple windows at once.
With the old design, it was basically impossible. Click an event, lose half your view.
Then Notion quietly shipped a game-changer.
You can now minimize the right panel. When you open an event, you get a clean, hovering window with all the details—and you can move it anywhere on your screen.
This sounds small. It's not.
I've been telling clients for years that Notion Calendar's superpower is for teams managing more than just meetings. If you're tracking project deadlines, content calendars, product launches, or key milestones alongside your standard meetings, Notion Calendar lets you toggle different databases on and off in a single view.
This is hugely helpful in team check-ins like weekly stand-ups. You want to see where a product deadline overlaps with someone's PTO, or when a client deliverable lands the same day as an all-hands. You need that bird's-eye view without the clutter.
But if your calendar window has to be massive just to see what's happening? The whole system falls apart.
Now with the collapsible panel, I can keep my narrow window, click into events when I need context, and move that details window out of the way. It's exactly how I want to work.
If you haven't explored Notion Calendar's agenda view yet, I recently recorded a walkthrough that shows how it helps you see a clean list of events grouped by individual calendar—perfect for those moments when the month view is too zoomed out.
Sometimes the best updates aren't flashy—they just remove the friction you didn't realize was holding you back.
Until next time,
Dave
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