We’ve been curious about the outcome of Notion AI since mid-November 2022; many of us have been anticipating for a long time that it would incorporate AI features into my favorite notepad apps.
Now the moment has arrived. Notion AI is out and we’ve got it in our hands. In short, Notion AI is truly remarkable. It includes the acclaimed GPT engine in the Notion program. There is no need to leave your notes to get AI support.
You can access Notion AI by pressing the space bar on an empty line or by using the Ctrl + J shortcut.
What is Notion AI?
Notion AI is a powerful tool which can assist you in streamlining the writing process, supplying fast and accurate content so you can devote your attention to more significant responsibilities.
Notion AI is more than a simple productivity application – it acts like an ally. Leveraging Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Notion AI serves to optimize your workflow and bring a bit of fun into your day.
Once ChatGPT and Bing made conversational artificial intelligence (AI) widely available, Notion jumped on the bandwagon and implemented AI in its own platform.
How Notion is Adopting This New Technology
Conversational AIs and artificial intelligence-powered writing tools are creating a revolution in terms of how content is produced, and Notion AI has also joined the scene.
OpenAI enabled the general public to access AI language models with ChatGPT, a chatbot that responds to the questions or commands given by the users. Then OpenAI introduced a subscription plan costing $20 monthly granting unlimited access even on a high demand.
Now that artificial intelligence language models are becoming mainstream, most tech companies are trying to get in on the market, and Notion is the latest entrant, it seems.
Notion AI Features
Essentially, Notion AI offers a handful of AI writing templates for authoring new content — It can also condense lengthy texts, pull out crucial details from disorganized notes, refine your sentence structure, and so much more. Here is a brief list of features Notion AI currently offers:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Blog Post Generator | Automates blog generation process, creating a complete blog in one go. |
| Summarize Text | Condense long form content down to the key points. |
| Translation | Translate sentences to/from the following languages: English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Indonesian, Vietnamese. |
| Meeting Agenda | Produces a plan of action for a meeting based on the subject discussed. |
| Brainstorm Ideas | Generates words to help with idea generation for writing, social media or email content. |
| Social Media Post | Creates catchy social media content & post captions. |
| Press Release | Gives you PR expertise to create effective press releases. |
| Job Description | Create effective job descriptions. |
Core Features
Apart from all the above, there seems to be more highlighted features that takes place in the toggle in former places than the others. They are arranged & sorted by the likelyhood of being used by the user. Continue writing for example takes place as the first template after Ask AI to write.
You can kickstart your writing with “Ask AI to write” and then use Continue Writing to keep on building on top of what you have already there.
Continue Writing
Most-commonly used feature of Notion AI is named “continue writing”. It reads your previous content and tries to build on top of it. Sometimes it can be irrelevant but most of the time it works well.
Summarize Text
This one is extremely useful; Notion AI can summarize long passages of text, pulling out the most salient points.
Find Action Items
This feature will read a text and try to create actionable bullet points from that input. Extremely useful to summarize and note down key points of a meeting for instance.
Translate
Notion AI features a translation option as well. Currently it supports a little over 10 languages including: English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Indonesian, Vietnamese.
Explain This
This feature will give you brief explanations when you highlight a long text. In a concise manner, you can benefit from it if you don’t want to spend your time on reading lengthy texts.
Notion AI Cons
Understandably, NotionAI is still relatively a new aspect to Notion in general and there can be some downsides to it.
- Continue Writing might not always be relevant to the previous content.
- Translations might sound clunky at times.
- You can’t integrate Notion AI utilities into your workflow on other platforms other than Notion.
- Even on a paid plan, AI usage might get limited if it’s excessive.