Notion, as my colleagues at TechCrunch scooped earlier Thursday, is asserting an e mail consumer at its first “Make with Notion” consumer convention. For now, Notion Mail is in preview, and a minimum of in the intervening time, it’s extra of a Gmail consumer than a standard e mail service. The thought right here, Notion says, is to construct an e mail expertise that permits customers “to ditch the previous methods of a inflexible inbox and embrace a brand new method: the place e mail works for you and your workflows.”
When precisely Notion Mail will launch, although, remains to be a query mark. The corporate is just 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 value noting, was the product of an acquisition, with the corporate shopping for calendar app Cron in 2022.
Equally, Notion lately acquired Skiff, a security-centric platform that additionally included an end-to-end encrypted e 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 prime of thoughts for Notion as effectively) however an integration with Notion AI.
There appear to be two elements to the AI integration right here: routinely organizing your emails through the use of an AI immediate as a sort 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 stated. How effectively that works in observe stays to be seen.
One good function Notion Mail will provide that I usually want Gmail would is that it doesn’t simply enable for utilizing completely different filters, but additionally permits you to prioritize emails inside these filtered views. Gmail, however, solely provides the “precedence inbox” view in the primary inbox, however while you drill all the way down to any of its default classes like boards, updates, or social, your solely choice is a reverse timeline view.
One other integration value 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 also be launching various different new options. These embody Notion Types, which lets customers design types and accumulate data, with Notion because the database backing it, in addition to the power to extra simply customise layouts in Notion to higher go well with a consumer’s desire for methods to show duties, notes, docs, and extra.
Notion can also be launching some improved automation options, together with the power to attach Notion and Gmail to, for instance, notify individuals by way of Gmail. And, to spherical all of this out, Notion has updates it Market with a redesigned net expertise.