Use AI connectors to access more of your team’s knowledge

In an ideal world, your team's knowledge would be neatly organized in one place, regularly updated, and consistently shared across teams. However, for most organizations, this "work about work" often falls to the bottom of the priority list.

Teams are whisked away by a need to respond here, attend a meeting there, and by the end of the day, they’re drained, and vital knowledge remains scattered and disorganized across tools. While AI chatbots offer promises to speed up our work, they both lack crucial company context and exist in a separate digital space, limiting their usefulness.

Notion is the first tool to combine your company’s knowledge — across multiple tools — right alongside the rest of your work.

When you integrate Slack or Google Drive with Notion AI, you can ask questions and receive relevant information from these connected sources. Notion AI will provide answers and cite the specific references it used, allowing you to access knowledge across multiple platforms seamlessly.

Notion AI can keep up with Slack discussions, remember every Google Slides presentation, and be accessed with the press of a button — inside Notion, or globally with the shortcut Shift + Cmd + J.

Here’s how this might show up in your day-to day work:

• Get up-to-date project updates, without a meeting —Try asking Notion AI to “Catch me up on Project Albatross and identify blockers.” It will check your project tracker in Notion, and double-check with your decisions mentioned in Slack — citing its sources so you can jump in wherever needed.

• Facilitate better new hire onboarding —New hires have a lot of questions, it’s literally their job to learn! With Notion AI, they can self-serve answers from all of your tools, and therefore trust it’s gathering the full picture. For more inspiration, see how Notion customer dbt Labs used AI to improve teamwork and efficiency.

• Access your knowledge from anywhere —The last thing you want to do when you’re on the go is search through multiple apps to find the answer to a simple question — or bug your colleagues when you know you could find it yourself. Notion AI is here to help troubleshoot common issues, wherever you need it.

AI connectors respect permissions, so people in your Notion workspace will only see content they already have access to in the connected tools. In other words, it won't reveal anything you're not supposed to see. We've designed this with security in mind, adhering to user permissions both in the original apps and in Notion.

When you ask Notion AI a question it can’t answer, it will let you know, and provide some thought starters using world knowledge.

AI connectors are powerful tools that bridge the gap between Notion and your other workplace applications. These connectors allow Notion's AI to access and utilize information from various sources, creating a more comprehensive and efficient workflow. Here's a deeper look at how AI connectors enhance team’s day to day:

• Reduce time spent searching— On average, workers spend 3 hours a day* searching for information (*Check out the Notion AI ROI template to learn more) . This wasted time can hinder productivity and innovation. AI connectors transform Notion into a centralized information hub, saving up to 10 minutes per question asked, enabling teams to make faster, more informed decisions.

• Tap in to otherwise unused knowledge—Too often, valuable ideas are buried deep in Slack threads, intended to be shared later but ultimately forgotten to time. Notion AI has the capability to recall that knowledge right when you need it, maximizing the creative impact of your team’s innovation. It can also cite useful information you didn't even know you had (like a new update from your company's all-hands presentation that pairs well with the report you're working on).

• Maintain focus and productivity— Context switching between apps can disrupt your workflow and burden you with distracting messages and notifications. With AI seamlessly integrated into Notion, you can access the information you need without breaking your concentration, allowing you to stay in a productive flow state as long as you need.

• Consolidate your tool stack— Just like other work software, most AI tools are made up of a set of fundamental actions (we’ve been saying this for years). Notion AI is designed with these building blocks in mind. That means it doesn’t just allow you to search other tools; but it’s also your team’s chatbot, writing partner, and so much more — so you don’t have to juggle dozens of apps to get work done.

We sometimes say Slack is like the other half of Notion. If all of your permanent docs live inside Notion, then all of your ephemeral conversations happen in Slack. By connecting Slack to Notion, you can bridge the gap between these two crucial communication channels. This integration allows you to seamlessly search and reference Slack conversations directly within Notion, ensuring that no important information slips through the cracks.

Here’s just a few ways we see the Slack connector show up in teams’ workflows:

• Write smarter status reports— Project managers responsible for writing a daily or weekly status report will appreciate the ability to ask Notion AI to note everything that’s happened in a certain time period.

• Summarize rambling threads— Extracting insights from threads in Slack can be tedious, but with Notion AI connected to Slack, you can simply ask to gather all ideas related to a certain project and insert them into the document.

• Keep track of critical announcements—Try using Notion AI to gather context before diving into a brand new doc. You might be surprised what you find, and how it stops you from going down the wrong path.

Google Drive is a vital hub for many teams, housing essential documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. By connecting it to Notion, you're bringing this wealth of information directly into your workflow.

With the Google Drive connector, Notion AI can quickly reference key data from Google Documents, Slides or Sheets without switching apps or even compile research from various Google Docs into your Notion projects.

Here’s just a few ways we see the Google Drive connector show up in teams’ workflows:

• Bring formal messaging into your docs— Your teams may work in Notion, but you likely have a slide library elsewhere with your formal pitches, all-hands presentations, and more. This form of information sharing can be really helpful to individuals trying to succinctly capture and share context ahead of a project.

• Access legacy knowledge— If you’ve largely switched off of google docs but haven’t imported everything over to Notion, an AI connector can help bridge the gap. This way, you have access to the information you need, but only when you need it.

• Improve sharing across teams— Some teams' work requires them to stay in other tools. For instance, your legal team might work primarily in Google Docs for contract drafting. The Google Drive connector allows other teams to easily reference key terms in Notion without disrupting the legal team's workflow, ensuring everyone has access to the latest information.