If you run your life out of a Notion database — content schedule, project deadlines, shifts, gym sessions — you probably want those dates to show up where you already look: your calendar. HEY Calendar can subscribe to any standard .ics feed, and Notion to Calendar turns a Notion database into exactly that.
This guide walks through the whole thing: create the feed once, paste it into HEY, done. It takes about two minutes, and you never have to touch it again.
What you'll end up with
Your Notion events appear inside HEY Calendar alongside everything else. Edit a date in Notion and the change flows into HEY on the next refresh — no exports, no copy-paste, no plugins. It's one-way (Notion stays the source of truth), which is the whole point: nothing to break, no conflicts to resolve.
Step 1: Create the feed in Notion to Calendar
- Go to notiontocalendar.com and sign in with your Notion account. You'll be asked to grant access to the workspace and to pick which databases to share. Only the databases you choose are visible — the rest of your workspace stays private.
- Once you're in the dashboard, create a new calendar link and pick the Notion database you want to expose (or start from one of its calendar/timeline views).
- Choose the date field. This is the property HEY will use to place each row on the calendar. Any Notion date property works, including a date returned by a formula. If your database has exactly one date field, it's selected for you.
- Give it a title and save. You'll land on the calendar link's page.
- Under Subscription Options, you'll see the iCalendar URL — something like
https://notiontocalendar.com/calendars/<your-link-id>. Hit Copy URL.
That URL is your feed. Keep it on your clipboard for the next step.
A note on sharing databases: HEY (and any calendar app) can only show rows that have a value in the date field you picked. If something isn't appearing, check that the row actually has a date.
Step 2: Subscribe to the feed in HEY Calendar
HEY Calendar reads outside calendars over .ics feeds. Here's the exact path:
- Click the HEY logo to open the menu.
- At the bottom of the menu, select "Subscribe to an outside calendar."
- Paste in the iCalendar URL you copied from Notion to Calendar.
- Click "Add subscription."
That's it. Your Notion events now show up in HEY Calendar.
One thing to know: feeds subscribed by URL are read-only in HEY — you can't edit those events inside HEY Calendar. That's by design. Notion to Calendar is one-way, so Notion stays the single source of truth. To change an event, edit it in Notion; HEY picks up the change on its next refresh. (Calendar apps refresh subscribed feeds on their own schedule, not instantly — so give it a little time to catch up after edits.)
Free vs Premium: what actually shows up in HEY
The free plan is genuinely useful, but it's worth being clear about what you get on each tier, because it changes what your HEY events look like.
Free plan
- Up to 30 events per feed, centered on today (a mix of recent past and upcoming dates).
- Each event shows the title and the date/time — the essentials.
- The event description contains a link back to the Notion page plus a short note about upgrading. There are no rich descriptions, locations, URL fields, or attachments on free.
- One feed, refreshed roughly every 6 hours.
Premium plan
- Up to 300 events per feed, spanning past and future, so long-running databases stay complete.
- Full event descriptions built from the Notion properties you choose.
- Location support (with map links when you map a Notion place property).
- A dedicated URL field, so each event can carry its own link.
- Attachments from your Notion files surfaced in the event.
- Custom event titles (add a property as a suffix), advanced filters, unlimited feeds, and a much faster refresh (about every 5 minutes).
In short: free gets your dates into HEY with titles attached. Premium makes each event a fully-formed entry — description, location, link, files — and removes the event-count and recency limits. If you're just trying to see deadlines next to your meetings, free is fine. If you want HEY events to stand on their own without opening Notion, that's the premium difference.
Why subscribe instead of just opening Notion?
Because a calendar app does things Notion doesn't: native push notifications, reminders, offline access, and side-by-side visibility with your meetings and personal events. HEY Calendar in particular keeps everything in one tidy place — and now your Notion database lives there too, without giving anyone a Notion seat to see it.
Ready to try it? Connect your Notion database in about two minutes at notiontocalendar.com and paste the feed into HEY.