How To Use Notion AI For Next-Level Note-Taking
If you enjoy taking digital notes, you’ve probably encountered Notion before. It’s an app for your browser, desktop, and phone, making your notes readily accessible across different platforms. People across the globe use it for a slew of purposes, from personal tasks like habit tracking and wedding planning to professional needs like document archiving and project management. All these are possible thanks to Notion’s wide range of features. Unlike othernote-taking appswith only a text field for your notes, Notion boasts more advanced elements like databases, toggle lists, inline equations, and embedded images and videos.
And recently, riding on the wave of the artificial intelligence trend, the app has also developed its own AI tool: Notion AI. The companyco-founder and CEO Ivan Zhao saidthat Notion AI is “your teammate before, during, and after the writing process.” In this post, we’ll explore the features of this new Notion add-on and how to use them.
What is Notion AI?
Notion AI is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based writing tool integrated directly into Notion. It launched inNovember 2022and has many features to bring your note-taking experience to the next level.
At the time of writing, there are three general purposes of Notion AI: writer, editor, and summarizer. It can write content from scratch (e.g., blog posts, creative stories, emails), edit your existing content to improve it or remove mistakes, and summarize existing content to get short explanations or action items. Notion AI features a list of recommended prompts for these purposes, but users are free to type their own, too. However, toget the best results from the AI, prompts must be specific and have an intended goal in mind.
How to use Notion AI to write a new content
Here’s how you can write anything with Notion AI:
How to use Notion AI to edit existing content
Notion AI’s edit feature can be useful when you already have an existing page but want to polish the content. Here’s how you can use the tool for editing:
If the edits you want aren’t in the available options or you want to be more specific about the changes, you’re able to directly type your instructions in the prompt field. After the AI provides you with the results, you can then replace the existing content with the generated results (“Replace selection”) or add the results to the page (“Insert below”). There are other actions like writing more information (“Continue writing”), revising the results to be longer (“Make longer”), and rewriting the prompt (“Try again”), as well.
How to use Notion AI to summarize/generate content from an existing page
On top of editing the content of an existing Notion page, Notion AI can also generate content using the data on the page. This can save you time and effort when you want to get a summary, translation, explanation, or action items from the given content. Here’s how to use Notion AI to generate content from an existing page:
Like before, you will also get more actions after the AI gives you the results. You can “Replace selection,” “Insert below,” “Continue writing,” “Make longer,” and “Try again.”
