Notion, as my colleagues at TechCrunch scooped earlier Thursday, is asserting an electronic mail shopper at its first “Make with Notion” consumer convention. For now, Notion Mail is in preview, and at the 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 permits customers “to ditch the previous 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, remains 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 just a few 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 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 nicely) however an integration with Notion AI.
There appear to be two elements to the AI integration right here: routinely organizing your emails by utilizing an AI immediate as a sort of good filtering mechanism (suppose “label all recruiting emails by stage and present the position”), in addition to the flexibility to let “Notion AI deal with the tedious back-and-forth equivalent to scheduling and follow-ups,” the corporate stated. How nicely that works in follow stays to be seen.
One good characteristic Notion Mail will provide that I typically want Gmail would is that it doesn’t simply permit for utilizing completely different filters, but in addition lets you prioritize emails within these filtered views. Gmail, however, solely provides 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 choice is a reverse timeline view.
One other integration price highlighting is with Notion Calendar. Customers will be capable of add a scheduling button to their emails that hyperlinks them proper to their calendars and availability.
Along with Mail, Notion can also be launching quite a few different new options. These embody Notion Varieties, which lets customers design varieties and gather data, with Notion because the database backing it, in addition to the flexibility to extra simply customise layouts in Notion to higher swimsuit a consumer’s choice for the best way to show duties, notes, docs, and extra.
Notion can also be launching some improved automation options, together with the flexibility to attach Notion and Gmail to, for instance, notify folks through Gmail. And, to spherical all of this out, Notion has updates it Market with a redesigned net expertise.
