Notion, as my colleagues at TechCrunch scooped earlier Thursday, is asserting an electronic mail shopper at its first “Make with Notion” person convention. For now, Notion Mail is in preview, and at the very least in the meanwhile, it’s extra of a Gmail shopper than a standard electronic mail service. The thought right here, Notion says, is to construct an electronic mail expertise that enables customers “to ditch the outdated methods of a inflexible inbox and embrace a brand new manner: the place electronic mail works for you and your workflows.”
When precisely Notion Mail will launch, although, continues to be a query mark. The corporate is simply committing to “quickly” at this level, however there’s a waitlist for getting early entry.
With including Mail, Notion (which says it now has over 100 million customers) continues on its path to providing a extra totally featured suite of productiveness choices. The launch of Notion Mail, in any case, comes only some months after the corporate launched its Calendar product. Notion Calendar, it’s price noting, was the product of an acquisition, with the corporate shopping for calendar app Cron in 2022.
Equally, Notion just lately acquired Skiff, a security-centric platform that additionally included an end-to-end encrypted electronic mail service. It doesn’t come as a shock, then, that Notion Mail is taking some design cues from Skiff, however the firm’s focus right here isn’t a lot on safety (although I’m certain that’s high of thoughts for Notion as effectively) however an integration with Notion AI.
There appear to be two elements to the AI integration right here: mechanically organizing your emails through the use of an AI immediate as a form of sensible filtering mechanism, in addition to the power to let “Notion AI deal with the tedious back-and-forth resembling scheduling and follow-ups,” the corporate mentioned. How effectively that works in follow stays to be seen.
One good function Notion Mail will supply that I typically want Gmail would is that it doesn’t simply enable for utilizing totally different filters, but in addition permits you to prioritize emails within these filtered views. Gmail, alternatively, solely affords the “precedence inbox” view in the principle inbox, however while you drill right down to any of its default classes like boards, updates, or social, your solely possibility is a reverse timeline view.
One other integration price highlighting is with Notion Calendar. Customers will have the ability to add a scheduling button to their emails that hyperlinks them proper to their calendars and availability.
Along with Mail, Notion can be launching quite a few different new options. These embody Notion Varieties, which lets customers design kinds and accumulate data, with Notion because the database backing it, in addition to the power to extra simply customise layouts in Notion to higher swimsuit a person’s choice for show duties, notes, docs, and extra.
Notion can be launching some improved automation options, together with the power to attach Notion and Gmail to, for instance, notify individuals through Gmail. And, to spherical all of this out, Notion has updates it Market with a redesigned net expertise.
