Q&A

• Whenever someone uses Q&A, Q&A only looks at the pages that they have access to in their workspace to answer their question. Q&A will never use information from pages that someone doesn’t have access to.

  • Q&A will only reference pages that you have created or been invited to, or pages whose privacy settings are set to Everyone at {your workspace}.

• Q&A’s responses to your questions depend on the content in your workspace. The more content there is, the better — we recommend having at least 100 pages in your workspace to make the most of this feature. If you don’t have enough content, we might ask you to import content into your workspace before you use Q&A.

• It can take around an hour before new content you’ve created is referenced by Q&A.

• If Q&A can’t answer a question based on the information in your workspace, it will let you know instead of giving you an inaccurate answer. This can also help you identify and close gaps in your documentation, and make Q&A work even better for your team.

• Perform quick skills, like creating a new page or adding a diagram to a page.

• Search across thousands of pages in your workspace to find the answer to your question, in just a few seconds.

• Answer questions about specific pages, people, and databases. You can use @-mentions when you ask Q&A a question.

• Synthesize information from databases and database properties.

• Know what page you’re on.

• Answer questions using GPT-4’s general knowledge of the world.

• Cite specific blocks in Notion pages when it answers a question.

• Answer questions using content that’s in an embed, like a video or a PDF.

• Edit existing content in a page.

• Filter or perform aggregations on databases, such as counting the number of rows in a view.

Q&A is available on web, desktop, and mobile. There are a few ways to open Q&A.

On web or desktop, you can either:

• Go to Notion AI in the sidebar. This will open up Q&A in full screen!

• Select ✨ in the bottom right corner of Notion so you can use Q&A while you’re working in a page.

• Use the keyboard shortcut cmd/ctrl + shift + J.

On mobile, you can either:

• Tap the Ask AI anything... bar at the bottom of your screen.

• Open search and select Ask AI anything in Notion.

Once you have Q&A open:

1. Enter your question.

2. Q&A will give you an answer and show you what pages it referenced to find it.

3. Select Try again to get a different answer to your question, or Copy answer if you want to save it. One question that you ask Q&A counts as one Notion AI response.

You can create a shortcut on your iOS device to quickly access Q&A. There are several ways to get to Q&A on your device:

• Tell Siri to open Notion AI.

• Search for Notion in Spotlight.

• Open the Shortcuts app on your device. Look for Notion and tap AI to ask your question. If you want to save the Notion AI shortcut to your home screen, hold down on AI, then tap Add to Home Screen.

• If you have the iPhone 15 Pro, customize the action button so that it opens Notion AI.

On desktop, you can use search and Q&A even when you’re outside of the Notion app. Trigger Command Search with a customizable keyboard shortcut, your menu bar on Mac, or your task bar on Windows so you can ask Q&A without switching between windows or bringing the Notion desktop app to the foreground. To make it easier to access Notion this way, a few things will happen by default:

• Command Search will be turned on. To turn this off, go to Settings & members → My settings → toggle off Enable Command Search. You can also turn off Show Notion in Menu Bar or customize your Command Search shortcut.

• Notion will be set to open at login. To turn this off:

  • On Mac: Right-click on the Notion icon in the dock → select Options → Open at Login to remove the check mark beside it.

  • On Windows: Right-click on the Notion icon in the task bar → select Launch Preferences → Open Notion at Login to remove the check mark beside it.

Q&A can be enabled for any Notion workspace, regardless of which language you’ve selected in your settings. Please note that Q&A response quality is highest in English, but the Notion team is working on improving the quality for other languages throughout the beta period.

If your workspace had the Notion AI Add-On enabled before November 6, 2023, the feature should be rolling out to your workspace in the coming days.

Anyone else can join the waitlist to try Q&A. You can also skip to the front of the line by purchasing the Notion AI add-on.

You’ll receive an email from Notion if your workspace receives access. We’ll ensure that your workspace can test Q&A before purchasing the Notion AI add-on, even if your workspace ran out of complimentary AI responses before you joined the waitlist.

Today, Q&A is only available to a subset of Notion users. Over time, the Notion team will improve the quality of Q&A’s responses, add new features and functionality, and make Q&A more widely available.

The terms found here apply to your use of Notion AI Q&A while it is in beta and provide protections that are in line with the terms for generally available Notion features, which include a commitment that we do not train machine learning models on your data.

We take the same precautions with your data for Q&A as we do with the rest of Notion. You can find more about how we handle your data for Q&A here.