What do you like best about the product?

I was asked to review notion AI. I'm not a notion user by default, I was attracted due to Notion AI's release. I use it for writing non fiction. I am amazed at its speed, compared to chatgpt or anything where I've used the openai API . it really excels at improving writing and cleaning grammar. I struggled with GPT 3 to get it to modify grammar without adding its conclusion statements or variants and trying to "cowrite" my text. I spent more time trying to prompt it to correct grammar than getting it to actually do it. With Notion, I can select a huge swath of text, have it correct grammar and spelling, and "improve writing, " which it does beautifully without losing context. Again, with GPT's general model, "improving writing" will yield unpredictable results and it will often write things that undermine what you are trying to say. Notion does not seem to have this problem at all. If you say "improve writing" or "make shorter" it does that, and it does it efficiently and quickly. After about 10 minutes of using, I gladly paid the $10 for the monthly subscription.

The other thing I liked initially is that it seemed to be aware of everything on the page. I was able to have it do outline summaries of very long sections of text that I'm positive I would have had to send in "chunks" through the api to openai (which degrades meaning and makes it very difficult to produce anything coherent) . And again, it does it very rapidly right in the context of your editor. I've tried some plugins for google docs and word that require you to wait quite a long time for much less pleasing results.

What do you dislike about the product?

Previous to about two weeks ago, I was able to have notion do some really specific things and get consistent results. I could have it generate a roman numeral outline, support the points with references from the text, and save it as markdown, for example. I could give it fairly complex instructions in my prompts and it would understand them. Also, it was much more aware of everything that was on the page.

Clearly something has changed which has severely handicapped its performance, making it about 45% less useful to me, leading me to look for other solutions. If I ask it to summarize something in an outline, it might say "i'm sorry this does not need an outline summary." Or it might say simply start regurgitating the text as is. it seems to literally ignore the details of my prompt. Or it might actually produce the whole outline, and at the end say "I'm sorry that exceeded the text limit" and delete the whole thing it just produced. Also, the notion editor itself has become less stable, and freezes up quite often. I'm on a free notion plan, only paying for notion AI, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

Another frustrating thing is that I tried to google what kinds of issues people are seeing with notion AI and I can't find anything more recent than about a month ago, and it's mostly gripes about how notion AI has changed their experience with Notion. I don't care about my experience with notion, because I'm new to the whole thing. but I can't find anyone griping abuot Notion's features who seems to understand what it's for or what its good at , which means its less likely to be improved upon because there's nothing constructive being said.

When I try to look for information about Notion AI I find very little. There's nothing about how to control parameters, like temperature or creativity or anything like that. Nor can I find anything about how it's designed to function. What I find is essentially a sales pitch about how it'll write an email or give you a block of text, that isn't much different than every other autocontent writer that started a business in the last few months advertising the same thing. This is frustrating because I don't know if it's behaving as designed, if it's malfunctioning, or if they've implemented some limits and changes deliberately or....?

So in my view, improvements would be 1) good documentation about what it's actually trained to do, and perhaps what its NOT trained to do so that we have realistic expectations in using wihch would lead to a lot less frustration. 2) the ability to pay for more functionality if token limits are an issue as to why its suddenly only able to consider small blocks of text rather than everything on my page.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

its very good at grammer and spelling and improving writing style and generating summaries on page ; better than what I've seen in other products so far

What do you like best about the product?

Notion has really helped me work flow and university organisation very effecitvely, being able to track and manage different tasks and files takes away a lot of the stress of doing every day activities.

Notion AI has been awesome at writing notes and summarising information and it has even helped plan my dissertation for my final year of university. It has a lot of features built in and it's 110% worth the asking price of $10 a month which is a steal

What do you dislike about the product?

Although Notion is incredibly powerful one of the biggest issues is it's performance, using Notion on mobile when you have a very large database or there are different widgets on screen can drastically decrease the performance which can impact work speed but it is not noticeable the majority of the time

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Planning and researching my assignments by giving me building blocks which help me understand what I need to talk about and how I talk about it, I've always been bad with managing my time and remembering so having a centralised system to store my ideas and though is super helpful

What do you like best about the product?

The UI is by far the most intuitive and best part of notion, unlike other websites and softwares where setting documents, tables, calendars, etc is tedious, Notion very simply allows you to craft a page according to how you see fit.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some of the non flexibility in design. Though the design language is very nice, I feel as though parts of say the table implementation or spreadsheet implementation leaves much to be desired by way of customer input and customizability.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

By far the biggest problem Notion solves for me is laying out large projects in palatable manners. Research papers are far easier to monitor in terms of progress with simplified headings and to do list options, questions on what is included in the paper are answered simply through the AI, and more.

What do you like best about the product?

Love the multidimensional / granular data model and the flexibility to create custom information architectures.

What do you dislike about the product?

No dislikes per se, it just took some time to wrap by brain around the concept of standalone or sub pages vs. pages in a database.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Removing friction from the process of capturing information has allowed me to create a "second brain." I'm also evaluating for future enterprise use.

What do you like best about the product?

I really loved all of the built in features. I loved the features like "make longer", "change the tone", "translate", and "summarize". These tools made my work a lot more efficient.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the AI didn't exactly know what I was asking it to do. When I would ask the AI a question, sometimes it would spit back "this text is in English" and I was never sure if that meant the AI wasn't sure what I wanted to say.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Notion is really helping me by summarizing long articles that I have to read for school. I'm assigned typically 50-100 pages of reading every week and notion helps me understand the concepts so I can be better prepared for class.

What do you like best about the product?

Notion translated the heat of GPT into we'll structures practice. Saving time to sort out the appropriate prompts, with integrated prompts that are designed by the Notion team. It is suitable for use in Notion so that most users will find it relevant to their daily tasks regardless they have used GPT or not somewhere else.

What do you dislike about the product?

It could further demonstrate why a user might use Notion AI instead of using ChatGPT. It is currently not possible to autocorrect the typos when writing prompts.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It puts the abilities of GPT into real use cases and it is designed to facilitate Notion Users in the first place. These users will use Notion regardless of the AI feature, so introducing the AI feature is not aggressive and it is easier for users making sense of the abilities of AI in their personalized use cases.

What do you like best about the product?

Notion au is a lifesaver - I have been able to fill in my gaps in notes, and I have been able to use the unique database system to organise all my note taking.

What do you dislike about the product?

Least helpful would be the loading time it takes on computers. The browser version is very fast, however it doesn't seem to be optimised for the mac version you install.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to quickly find formulas and define key terms is extremly helpful, and the ai has been a key part in letting me do this. I couodnt reccomend it more.

What do you like best about the product?

One thing I like about Notion is how versatile it is. I can use it for personal projects, work-related tasks, and even as a dashboard to keep all my important information in one place. It's also helpful in my social media work because I can easily organize my ideas and content calendars. Overall, I find Notion to be a very user-friendly and efficient tool.

What do you dislike about the product?

The only bad thing is the lack of having offline docs. I like using it on planes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping me with writing social media copies, organising content as well as rephrasing text that I've already wrote. It's very helpful for copywriting. It also helps me to organise my tasks in my work life with us to do lists and other administrating tools.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to use
Easy to use with APIs
Is pretty
I like how it has integrated code-blocks and markdown
Able to use as a centralized workspace
I use Notion AI as a second brain - and it has really changed the way that I use Notion.

What do you dislike about the product?

Notion AI is great, but there are obviously teething problems. Frequently the AI pop-up stops working and moves to the top-left of Notion's UI. Presumably this is an error, but I can't actually see if it is or not.

Also, I get frustrated because sometimes I want Notion AI to answer something not related to the document at hand, but it has a problem doing that.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick, general answers to generalised and technical queries. E.g., "List the films which won the Palme D'or in the 1970s".
Can write code in markdown.
Can organise and summarize large text strings.

What do you like best about the product?

Keeping your results from AI tool and leveraging it with other notes. Helpful in all aspects of my business. From generating email templates, formatting, and creative writing. I've introduced it to my entire team at work.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are not many dislikes however my prompts sometimes get buggy / notes get buggy whenever I have a lot of notes on one page. Other than that flawless and useful once accustomed to controls

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is streamlining crafting creative messaging to clients and candidates for our recruitment firm and allowing non technical recruiters to sound more professional.