Creating and editing with AI

Notion AI can be helpful in various parts of your workflow. By creating new content, summarizing meeting notes or finding action items, AI can fit perfectly into any process.

When you’re starting a new page, you’ll have the option to Start writing with AI...

• You can select options like:

  • Brainstorm ideas

  • Outline…

  • Social media post…

• Select an option and fill out the prompt and hit Enter

  • The output will start writing directly on your page, you can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

• Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, Try again — which will generate a new output.

There are several types of content you can easily create with AI. Enter a prompt and AI can get your first draft started instantly.

• Press Space and under Draft with AI you’ll find multiple options including:

  • Press release…

  • To-do list…

  • Blog post…

• Select an option and fill out the prompt and hit Enter

  • The output will start writing directly on your page, you can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

• Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, Try again — which will generate a new output.

Notion AI can be used to quickly improve your writing by finding typos, simplifying language, and more.

• Highlight text in a Notion page.

• Click on Ask AI in the menu bar and under Edit or review selection select one of the options like:

  • Improve writing

  • Fix spelling & grammar

  • Make shorter

  • Clean up formatting

    • The output will start writing directly on your page, you can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

• Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, Try again — which will generate a new output.

Notion AI can generate additional content from your existing text. Have AI sift through your messy notes, so you don’t have to.

• Highlight text in a Notion page.

• Click on Ask AI in the menu bar and under Generate from selection select one of the options like:

  • Summarize

  • Translate

  • Explain this

  • Find action items

    • The output will start writing directly on your page, you can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

• Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, Try again — which will generate a new output.

You can also include unique AI blocks to any page. These blocks will stay in the doc and can be generated repeatedly to update.

• Press / and search for one of the following:

  • Summary

  • Action items

  • Custom

• Click Generate

• After updating the document, click Update again to keep the block fresh.

Using a database to store a large collection of meeting notes, tasks, or projects? Try using AI to generate summaries, extract action items and more — across your entire database.

Adding an AI Autofill

• Click the + button at the top right side of a database to add a new property.

• Select Text and select Fill with AI.

• Choose one of the prompts:

  • Summary: AI summarizes the content of the page.

  • Extract key info: AI grabs specific information (ex: people mentioned on this page).

  • Custom: AI answers a custom prompt given by the user.

If your plan includes the AI add-on, you can also enable:

• Auto-update on page edits which means your property will update five minutes after changes are made to the page. You can also manually trigger AI to fill or update by hovering over a value and clicking the wand button that appears.

• Update all pages which is a one-time manual update to all pages in the database.