Writer and Autofill

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You can use Notion AI Writer and Autofill to create new content, draft writing, edit existing content, and generate additional content 🦿

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Notion AI can be helpful in various parts of your workflow. By creating new content, summarizing meeting notes or finding action items, AI can fit perfectly into any process.

Start a new page

When you’re starting a new page, you’ll have the option to Start writing with AI...

  • You can select options like:

    • Brainstorm ideas….

    • Outline….

    • Social media post….

  • Select an option, fill out the prompt, and hit Enter.

    • The output will start writing directly on your page. You can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

  • Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, or Try again — which will generate a new output.

Draft new writing

There are several types of content you can easily create with AI. Enter a prompt and AI can get your first draft started instantly.

  • Press Space and under Draft with AI you’ll find multiple options including:

    • Press release….

    • To-do list….

    • Blog post….

  • Select an option, fill out the prompt, and hit Enter.

    • The output will start writing directly on your page. You can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

  • Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, or Try again — which will generate a new output.

Edit existing content

Notion AI can be used to quickly improve your writing by finding typos, simplifying language, and more.

  • Highlight text in a Notion page.

  • Click on Ask AI in the menu bar and under Edit or review selection, select one of the options like:

    • Improve writing.

    • Fix spelling & grammar.

    • Make shorter.

    • Clean up formatting.

  • The output will start writing directly on your page. You can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

  • Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, or Try again — which will generate a new output.

You can favorite AI prompts that you want to use again later.

  • After you run an AI prompt, click Add to favorites.

  • When you start another AI block, you'll see your favorites at the top.

  • To delete a favorite, click the pen icon next to it and click Delete.

Generate additional content

Notion AI can generate additional content from your existing text. Have AI sift through your messy notes, so you don’t have to.

  • Highlight text in a Notion page.

  • Click on Ask AI in the menu bar and under Generate from selection, select one of the options like:

    • Summarize.

    • Translate.

    • Explain this.

    • Find action items.

  • The output will start writing directly on your page. You can click Try again or Stop while it’s writing.

  • Once finished you can add a follow up with an additional prompt or click Done, Continue writing, Make longer, Close, or Try again — which will generate a new output.

AI content blocks

You can also include unique AI blocks to any page. These blocks will stay in the doc and can be generated repeatedly to update.

  • Press / and search for one of the following:

    • Summary.

    • Action items.

    • Custom.

  • Click Generate.

  • After updating the document, click Update again to keep the block fresh.

Using a database to store a large collection of meeting notes, tasks, or projects? Try using AI on a database property to generate summaries, extract action items, and more.

Text property

  • Select + at the top right side of a database to add a new property.

  • Select Text and select Fill with AI.

  • Choose one of the prompts:

    • AI summary: AI summarizes the content of the page.

    • AI key info: AI grabs specific information, like people mentioned on the page.

    • AI custom autofill: AI answers a custom prompt given by the user.

    • AI translation: AI translates desired content into different languages.

Select and multi-select property

You can let AI Autofill assign certain categories or keywords to items in your database. For example, you could have a shopping list where AI marks items as groceries, home goods, or something else.

  • Select + at the top right side of a database to add a new property.

  • Add a Select or Multi-select property, then toggle on AI Autofill.

  • You can also edit your select or multi-select property to toggle on Allow new select options. When this is turned on, AI will generate new options to apply to any new database entries.

If your plan includes the AI add-on, you can also enable:

  • Auto-update on page edits: This means your property will update five minutes after changes are made to the page. You can also manually trigger AI to fill or update by hovering over a value and clicking the wand button that appears.

  • Update all pages: This is a one-time manual update to all pages in the database.

Tip: If you want your entire database to have AI summaries, try using both Auto-update and Update all pages.

Since Auto-update only triggers when page edits are made, nothing will happen until a page is changed. Update all pages can help jumpstart that process.


FAQs

How do I know if Notion AI’s responses are accurate?

Writer is most effective for streamlining your workflows. For example, it can summarize meeting notes or help you brainstorm for a project. We recommend that you always check the accuracy of content from Notion AI before relying on it for critical content.

Does Notion AI have access to all the data in my workspace? How does Notion AI use my data?

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