Notion Mail Uses AI to Wrangle Your Messy Inbox, and It Rules

Notion, the makers down the super-personalized, all-you-can-DIY note-taking suite, is launching different option for managing your inbox. It’s called Notion Mail, and portion it’s been successful a sort-of beta for months, it’s officially disposable contiguous for the Mac and web browser, and truthful far, truthful precise good.

Notion Mail was announced last fall with the beta. We had an inkling it was coming aft Notion acquired different email app called Skiff successful February 2024, which had privateness and information astatine the forefront. (Notion Mail says it’s SOC2 certified and HIPAA compliant.) This is besides however Notion’s 2nd app, Notion Calendar, came to be, (after the acquisition of the calendar app Cron successful aboriginal 2024).

Notion Mail seems much focused connected touting its quality to untangle the messiness that is email. From the get-go, the app bills itself arsenic “the inbox that organizes itself,” which sounds promising to idiosyncratic similar maine who desperately seeks assistance via a third-party entity. Notion Mail uses AI tricks to assistance you get started toward the way of inbox liberation. Its marquee diagnostic lets you picture what you’re attempting to signifier alternatively than asking you to acceptable up a formulaic rule.

My inbox is inactive a damn mess, but I’ve already been capable to signifier similar Substack newsletters and updates from my kid’s schoolhouse territory into idiosyncratic bookmarks utilizing Notion Mail’s AI-based car labeler. All I had to bash was picture the contented I was looking to person grouped, though I had to beryllium circumstantial if I wanted much than 1 email code oregon root to beryllium included successful the label. For instance, erstwhile I acceptable retired to marque the statement for my child’s school, I utilized “school notifications and emails from Class Dojo and my child’s teacher, [teacher’s name]”. When I conscionable utilized “school notifications,” it fetched maine lone the emails that specifically mentioned the simple school.

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Notion Mail instantly organized each my Substack spam.

Notion Mail is escaped to use, but it’s constricted to Gmail close now. There’s besides lone an app for the Mac, with the institution promising Notion Mail volition person an iOS app coming soon and an Android 1 aboriginal this year. You tin usage the app to negociate aggregate emails, but lone if they’re Google accounts. Andrew Milich, 1 of the founders of Skiff and present astatine Notion Mail, couldn’t connection a day to The Verge for Outlook and different relationship support.

Other peculiar features of Notion Mail see customized views, a built-in gathering scheduler, and the tried-and-true Notion penning environment. I’m hardly 2 hours into utilizing this email suite and inactive figuring retired however to adhd sources aft making labels. But if I tin get a clearer presumption of what’s happening successful my Gmail, it whitethorn marque Notion Mail different app I integrate into my workflow.