What Is Notion AI?
You might be thinking, “how does Notion AI work?” The best way to answer that is to determine the use cases for Notion AI. Essentially, Notion AI is there to support you with certain tasks that would either take a long time or are tedious to complete. Think of it as your digital creative assistant, something that follows your orders and never moans about the tasks you give it.
Sounds like a dream, right? Well, while Notion AI can’t do everything, with the right prompts it can certainly do a lot — and do it quite well. Let’s take a look at some of the core AI capabilities Notion is offering.
Notion AI Features
Notion AI’s big selling point is its ability to create AI generated content. Rather than spend time writing a blog post yourself, simply give Notion AI an overview of what you want to write, and it will write the full blog post for you. We’ll explain this in more detail later in the article.
That’s not all Notion can do. Other key features include its ability to digest existing content and create a brief summary of all the key talking points, plus help with brainstorming ideas.
10 Ways to Use Notion AI
At the time of writing, Notion AI is purposely built to support users with the writing process. Anytime you need to add copy to a task or blog post, you can utilize Notion AI via a dropdown menu.
While anyone with a Notion account can activate Notion AI, it isn’t free. Whether you’re on a free plan or the most expensive Enterprise plan, you’ll have to pay an extra $10 per user per month to access Notions AI tools. It’s cheaper than ChatGPT, which is $20 per month, however considering you have to pay for Notion AI on top of your subscription, the cost will soon add up.
There’s plenty that Notion AI can do, and in the remainder of this article we’re picking out 10 of its top features and explaining how you can use them effectively.
1. Write a Blog Post
Notion AI can write articles from scratch simply by following a prompt. For example, you can ask Notion AI to “write a blog post outlining the five best ways to improve the design of your products.” You can list the five examples yourself or allow Notion to take full control simply by following the prompt.
It is impressive seeing the software write a full blog post from a simple prompt.
Once Notion AI has delivered the article, you have the option of asking it to write a longer version of the article. You can also ask Notion AI to “continue writing,” which is essentially the same thing. If you’re not happy with the end result, you can either edit your prompt or jump in yourself and get your human creative juices flowing.
2. Improve Writing
If you have prewritten copy, you can use Notion AI as a grammar assistant. Open a new page and add your copy, highlight the text and select “ask AI.” Here you can ask Notion AI to fix spelling, shorten the copy or expand on it further. If your writing includes complex terminology, you can also ask Notion AI to dumb it down, so it’s easily understandable.
Notion AI can serve as a digital grammar assistant to
help prevent spelling mistakes and improve existing content.
3. Change the Tone of Your Writing
Beyond correcting grammar mistakes, the new Notion AI can also change the tonality of your copy. There are five tones to choose from, each catering to a different audience: professional, friendly, casual, straightforward and confident.
We did see a noticeable difference in writing tones throughout the five options.
There was a noticeable difference between each writing style, and we can imagine it being a useful tool for making your content more engaging for your target audience. If you’re not happy with the first attempt at style change, you can ask the AI to make another attempt until you’re satisfied with the end result.
4. Create Social Media Posts
If you often feel stuck when it comes to crafting social media content for your brand, Notion can help you generate content. We opened a new Notion page and asked Notion AI to “write a tweet saying our new product will be for sale in two weeks. Write it in an uplifting tone that generates excitement.”
Social media managers will likely find this feature useful.
It’s not just tweets it can write either — you can also use Notion AI to create a Facebook status or an Instagram caption. Beyond writing the content, it also includes relevant hashtags based on your prompt and the message you’re aiming to convey.
5. Create Task Lists
If you have company training records or meeting notes that contain specific tasks that are lost in lots of fluff and jargon, you can ask Notion AI to help. After selecting the copy, you can ask the tool to “find action items.” From here, it will create a to-do list which you can check off as you work through each task.
AI generated task lists are one of the more useful features.
6. Brainstorm Ideas
If you have a specific goal in mind, but you’re unsure how to reach it, you can use Notion AI to brainstorm ideas. We asked the AI to “brainstorm ideas on how to create a unique pair of sneakers in 2023.” Some of the suggestions were outside of the box, while others were more generic. There certainly were enough to either expand further or inspire your own ideas.
Brainstorming ideas doesn’t require much thought with Notion AI.
7. Write a Job Description
Hiring managers can use the AI to create job descriptions for new roles in the company. We asked the AI to “write a job description for the role of technical writer.” The result was pretty generic, and without further details in the prompt, it’s likely the AI won’t nail the job description like a human would. Again, it’s useful as a foundation, but expect to make some tweaks.
The job descriptions are pretty generic, but a good starting point.
8. Draft a Sales Pitch
Copywriters can spend hours crafting the perfect sales pitch; Notion AI takes less than 10 seconds. Simply enter as much information about your product as you can, and the AI will turn it into a persuasive sales email. Depending on your level of expertise, Notion’s powerful tool does a pretty good job, though we imagine high-level sales reps would prefer to do their own writing.
Notion AI can turn two sentences into a multi-paragraph sales pitch.
9. Write Poetry
Among all the practical and professional tools is a feature that writes poetry. It really defeats the object of the creative process, but if you need a poem and have no clue where to start, the AI will write one for you. We asked for a poem about a tree and the importance of stillness and solitude.
We doubt Notion will win any poetry awards anytime soon.
10. Other Tools
Notion’s artificial intelligence has plenty of other uses. You can use it to write project outlines, create stories and press releases. It also has a built-in translator that supports 13 languages — it’s not a match for Google Translate, but can be useful if you don’t want to leave the Notion platform.
There are many practical ways to use Notion AI to help save time on written content creation.
