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Day 21 · 15 minutes

Notion AI

Turn rough notes into a polished doc without copying anything out.

~15 min read + 10 min hands-on

1 Why this tool matters

Notion's AI lives inside every page. Type /, pick an AI action, and it operates on your existing notes — summarize, expand, translate, rewrite, make into a table, turn into action items. If Notion is already where your knowledge lives, AI inside it is more useful than any external chatbot.

2 Walkthrough

  1. In any Notion page, type /ai and explore the menu.
  2. Drop your last meeting notes into a page. Select them.
  3. Run Summarize, then Find action items, then Translate → Spanish.
  4. Try AI blocks: a block that auto-summarizes anything you paste below it. Useful for running logs.
  5. Give Notion AI custom instructions (“You are a concise product manager”) so every action reflects your voice.

3 Your turn

Today’s exercise

Take one messy set of meeting notes. Run it through three Notion AI actions: summarize, extract action items, draft a follow-up email. That transformation — five minutes, start to finish — is the habit.

4 Pro tip

Worth keeping

Notion AI has access only to the page you are on by default. To make it reason over your whole workspace, turn on Q&A in workspace settings and ask “What did we decide about X last quarter?”