Notion releases an AI-powered e mail shopper for Gmail

Notion launched Notion Mail, an AI-powered e mail shopper for Gmail that integrates with the remainder of Notion’s workflow administration platform, on Tuesday.

Notion Mail connects to Notion customers’ Gmail accounts and makes use of AI to assist customers arrange their emails, draft responses, schedule conferences, and search throughout messages. Any Notion consumer can enroll, and Notion Mail’s AI capabilities are free with month-to-month utilization limits or limitless by way of a paid tier.

Notion Mail enters an more and more crowded class of corporations trying to enhance e mail inboxes with AI. Superhuman, one of many bigger gamers, has raised $108 million in enterprise funding for its shopper that isn’t tied to legacy e mail suppliers like Gmail or Microsoft Outlook. Fyxer, which connects to Gmail and Outlook, raised $10 million final month.

It’s additionally value noting that most of the options Notion Mail is providing are additionally obtainable from suppliers like Gmail, which makes use of AI to kind emails, craft responses, and recommend conferences.

Jason Ginsberg, an engineer who labored on Notion Mail, advised TechCrunch that the thought behind Notion Mail wasn’t to connect AI to an present inbox, however quite give customers the power to make use of AI to construct a customized inbox organized and configured how they need.

“The best way we constructed Notion Mail is sort of right down to the constructing blocks, or the basics of how e mail works,” Ginsberg stated. “It’s actually modular. And what meaning is, like, as a substitute of simply going to settings and there’s simply what we’ve determined, you really can configure Notion Mail in methods we will’t even think about — all totally different permutations, in order that it really works the best way you like.”

Notion Mail’s infrastructure got here from Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted collaboration platform Notion acquired in 2024 for an undisclosed sum. Ginsberg co-founded Skiff, which additionally included an e mail product.

In line with Ginsberg, one among Notion Mail’s extra notable options is the power for customers to separate their inbox into “views” or folders. The function makes use of Notion AI to auto-label emails on a selected matter and transfer them right into a separate topic-specific inbox.

Ginsberg imagines customers will use the potential to prepare emails for a particular goal, like preserving observe of job purposes. He stated he makes use of the function himself to rapidly examine buyer suggestions from Notion Mail’s beta clients.

Notion Mail connects with different Notion merchandise just like the platform’s calendar app, Notion Calendar, and its inside information base. This unlocks time-saving shortcuts. If somebody in an e mail change suggests scheduling a gathering, Notion’s AI will examine a consumer’s calendar, recommend instances they’re free, and immediate them to schedule it.

Ginsberg stated that quite a lot of the innovation round incorporating AI into e mail has up to now centered primarily on writing emails. He thinks Notion Mail presents one thing totally different due to its emphasis on constructing a custom-made inbox.

“I believe our focus has actually been on, how can AI assist arrange your e mail for you?” Ginsberg stated. “The large change there’s it’s not feeling like a burden the place you’re going by way of the identical endless checklist, one-size-fits-all inbox and manually triaging emails. Our focus is to not have you ever work quicker within the previous manner of issues. It’s actually a brand new manner and a brand new method.”

Ginsberg stated that sooner or later, Notion hopes to have the ability to supply extra product integrations and extra methods to entry Notion Mail, like an iOS app. The Notion workforce additionally desires to have the ability to supply a number of inboxes in a single view down the road.