What is Notion AI?
Notion AI is not a separate application but a suite of artificial intelligence features woven directly into the Notion productivity workspace. Instead of being a conversational chatbot you visit, it acts as a context-aware assistant that lives right alongside your notes, documents, and project boards. Its ideal users are the millions who already rely on Notion: students, writers, project managers, and teams. Notion AI's primary purpose is to eliminate friction by helping you write faster, think bigger, and organize information more efficiently, all without ever leaving your workflow. It solves the "context switching" problem of copying and pasting between a writing app and a separate AI tool.
Key Features
Notion AI's features are designed to seamlessly blend into your existing work:
- Writer & Autofill: On any Notion page, you can ask AI to draft blog posts, create outlines, write emails, or brainstorm ideas. The "Autofill" feature can intelligently populate tables based on context.
- Summarize & Action Items: This is a key strength. Highlight any text—meeting notes, a pasted article, research—and ask Notion AI to provide a concise summary or pull out a list of actionable tasks.
- Improve Writing: Select your own writing and ask the AI to fix spelling and grammar, make it longer or shorter, or change the tone (e.g., make it more professional or confident).
- Q&A on Your Workspace: A powerful feature that allows you to ask questions and get answers based on the information stored across all your Notion pages, turning your workspace into a personal knowledge base.
Pricing Plans
Notion has simplified its pricing, making AI much more accessible.
- Free Plan: All Notion users, including those on the free plan, get a limited number of complimentary AI responses to try out the features.
- Notion AI Add-On: For users on the Free plan who need more, Notion AI can be added for a monthly fee (around $10/month).
- Included in Paid Plans: In a major update, the Notion AI features are now included at no extra cost for users on the Plus, Business, or Enterprise plans. This provides incredible value for paying customers.
How to Use It
Using Notion AI is incredibly intuitive and becomes second nature.
1. On a new line: Simply press the Spacebar to open the AI prompt menu and ask it to write anything.
2. On existing text: Highlight any text on a page, and a context menu will pop up. From there, select "Ask AI" and choose an action like "Summarize," "Improve writing," or "Find action items."
3. Q&A Search: Use the search feature at the top of your workspace to ask questions directly to the AI about your content.
Final Verdict
For anyone who already uses and loves Notion, Notion AI is a must-have upgrade that will fundamentally change your workflow for the better. Its true power lies in its seamless integration; the AI is always there, exactly when and where you need it. The convenience of summarizing meeting notes or drafting content without switching tabs is a massive productivity boost. While the underlying AI models may not always be the absolute latest compared to standalone services, the contextual power and ease of use more than make up for it. Now that it's included in paid plans, Notion AI turns a great productivity tool into an essential smart workspace.
Pros
- Perfectly integrated into Notion
- Context-aware of your notes
- Excellent for summarization
- Included for free in paid plans
- Huge time-saver; no context switching
Cons
- Only useful if you use Notion
- Free AI usage is limited
- Core model isn't always the newest