The trend is here! Introducing Notion AI
A few months ago, I wrote about future trends we will see in project and knowledge management. One of them talked about the use of AI technologies and tools to accelerate and simplify the processes of new knowledge creation, navigation, and systematization.
OpenAI’s GPT-3 algorithm is really powerful and very useful to use, but only a few companies dared to implement it in a product (although it was obvious that it would inevitably happen). Mem was the first to do it, announcing their new product Mem X, and now Notion has announced it as well.
What features did Notion add?
Nothing out of the ordinary. Content creation, content compression, translation into other languages, and error correction.
These are the most basic features I used in Obsidian and Logseq six months ago, adding a few plugins.
Why is the new product from Notion really important?
Notion, despite it’s limitations, is an incredibly popular product. It’s probably the most used and successful tool on the market right now.
That means that most of the other players follow everything they do and emulate them (of course, they’ll deny it, but it’s still a fact), improving some parts of the product. And now that Notion has released a product with AI, there will be a lot of products that will release updates with AI capability in the near future. The more companies work on implementing and adapting GPT-3 features for knowledge and project management — the sooner we’ll see some advanced things that will really make our jobs easier.
In fact, I’m even a little surprised that Notion released such a product. They have a huge market share and it’s a big risk to do this kind of thing. Huge respect for their team for not being afraid to test and create new trends.
Conclusions.
Very happy that trends in project and knowledge management are starting to evolve so rapidly. Not using AI capabilities to optimize and improve processes is a crime in 2022. Very glad that many companies know how to listen and hear their customers, see market trends and implement what others do not dare to do.
