Notion’s Biggest Weakness Is Finally Getting Fixed

Notion have introduced AI Meeting Notes and it's something that has dramatically upgraded their AI platform as a consolidated experience.

This new AI Meeting experience captures meetings and creates an organized summary of what happened in the meeting, as well as the ability to take notes in the background using system audio.

It works with all of your system audio, meaning you don’t have to connect anything using Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams. There’s no extra software. It just records in the background, unlike some of the other meeting notes tools that require you to have a deep integration.

How Notion Worried Us

• A few years back, I talked about how Notion would struggle with their future plans if they don’t decide to break their applications down and help AI to understand what each objective is on completing certain things.

• The theory being that AI won't be able to understand what a block or component is created, unless there is some context built around it.

• Over the last year, they’ve really pushed into that workspace experience with the introduction of Calendar, Mail, and AI Meeting Notes and it’s likely that they’ll issue and release a chatbot to help rival the likes of Slack in the near future.

• This new AI Meeting Notes experience helps to bypass what they struggle with inside of Notion: the ability for the AI to understand what the objective of the database or blocks that you create actually is.

• For example, if you create something in a database, you would need to formulate this so that the AI would actually understand what the objective of the content is. Whereas with Notion Calendar, you know it’s about events. With Notion Mail, it’s all about emails.

An AI Meeting Note-Taker Appears

• With AI Meeting Notes, it’s all about meeting transcription.

• So if Notion continue to do this, the future could be incredibly bright, as being able to have a workspace of applications that deeply embed within their experience will continue to be something that they’ll need to do. But this new introduction of this experience has definitely helped a lot of people to start consider Notion as a collective.

• It handles a lot for users - system based audio capture, transcriptions, summaries and your own personal note-taking too.

• At the same time, Notion AI upgraded their enterprise plans and more for this.

Will You Get Rid of Your AI Note-Taker Now?

• There are a few reasons why this update is quite exciting. The first is that you can actually take these meeting minutes on mobile. The actual ability to choose in terms of privacy is really good. For example, you can have a consent collection so that you can make sure that you allow the people to consent to the audio as well. This is perfect for making sure before you start meetings that somebody verbally consents to each of the sessions that you do.

• The second is that in terms of AI meeting transcription tools, paying for an additional one between $10 to $20 per month can be quite expensive. And if you’re already using Notion, the AI starts from $20 per user, which is incredibly much more less than what other people or what you’re already paying for now.

• So each of the notes allows you to take your own notes, a bit like how another app like Granola works. It allows you to transcribe and create meeting summaries and then creates and assigns actions and updates projects based on that. This will likely to get even better thanks to their AI automation abilities that are continuing to improve.

Why Notion AI Note-Taker is The First Step

• You can also generate, using the AI function, the ability to get follow-ups and key lessons from certain meetings that you weren’t able to attend, which is incredibly helpful. This also deeply embeds inside of Notion Calendar, which a lot of people will appreciate, and something that they can start using from day one.

• Many people don’t know that the AI Meeting supports 16 languages, which is helpful. And according to their website, their data is secured. You can control who sees the meeting notes, as well as see the built-in privacy settings and one-click consent collection before the meeting starts, which is incredibly helpful.

• So, Notion are making leaps forward to becoming more of a workspace experience, and this new release continues down that path. And it’s definitely reignited my interest in where Notion’s future is heading. As I did see, I was a little bit worried in the past at whether the experience would be able to, you know, make sense.

• I was a little bit worried in the past at whether the experience would be able to consolidate everything properly if they didn’t have a broken-down experience. And this will continue to get better when their chat feature for teams will be released, which is highly likely in the future.

More Meeting AI Note-Takers

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