Trialled by Daniel Zuboff

Strategy at Loomery

In the past few months, Notion has released its own integrated version of GPT-3 for everyone using its software. From personal experience, this is such a smoothly incorporated tool that I think it provides an excellent model for optimal interaction with these generative systems.

Notion is built on a framework of constructing pages out of blocks of text, images, code and much more. Each type can be inserted by pressing forward slash and making a selection from there. Now AI tools have been integrated in a similarly intuitive way; you can press space to bring up a bunch of useful prompts. Now with the AI features notion provides, you can use a language model to create text easily with a number of presets, or even generate checklists, or tables of data extracted from a block of text.

At any time, pressing space enables you to start enhancing what you write with AI. It can even pick up where you left off mid-sentence, and it does this within the full context of what you’ve written in that block so far.

A drop-down menu will appear with a list of prompts. You can of course direct the model to do anything you’d like by typing into the top bar, but Notion’s been keeping an eye on which features it’s users find most useful, so these can quickly be accessed in the drop-down menu.

As well as straightforward generation, Notion has found that many users prefer to use AI to edit content they’ve already written. Making these edits in the page is much easier than exiting out of whatever software you’re using to write, having to paste what you’ve been working on into ChatGPT as part of a carefully designed prompt, and then pasting the output from there back into your original document. In a sense, Notion has distilled the prompts people would most like to use and made shortcuts to them — a big time-saver.