Notion made a transformative announcement this week. But if you caught it, you likely saw "developer" and kept scrolling.
Sure, the details were for developers, but the broader implications are for everyone. In aggregate, the new features reimagine Notion as the hub of your information ecosystem and the command center for your AI agents.
They're part of a new platform that gives developers (and you!) a toolkit for extending Notion.
Here are the most important updates, and how you can harness them without writing a single line of code:
The platform enables developers to write code that runs in Notion. Essentially, they can create apps in Notion. And those apps are called "Workers."
Workers can access information across your workspace, engage with Custom Agents, and exchange information with external apps and agents.
As developers create Workers and connect them to external apps in new ways, you'll experience the possibilities they unlock.
But you'll also want to explore them yourself because in addition to their new capabilities, Workers are a far more economical alternative to Custom Agents. They run on hard-coded logic, not AI, so they need no AI credits.
But as you'll see, you can use AI to create them without writing code yourself.
The developer platform includes a built-in feature for syncing external apps with Notion databases. The ability to sync existed before, but it was cumbersome to create and resource-intensive to execute.
Now, syncing is turnkey and highly efficient, so you can expect to see many more apps offer Notion sync. Notion databases can become live mirrors of other tools, like customers from your CRM or transactions from a financial account.
My biggest gripe with Notion's automation and agent triggers has been the absence of webhooks. It's the reason I've stayed with Airtable for many of my integration and automation needs.
A webhook is a simple way for an app to send information to another app. It's essentially a URL, like one you'd use for a website, bundled with data. Most apps have the capability to send webhooks when events occur, like a new person in a CRM, but only certain types of apps receive webhooks to process.
That was Notion: It could send webhooks but not receive them.
But now, Workers in Notion can be triggered by webhooks. That means when an event occurs in another app, or a certain condition is met, it sends the information to Notion for storing and acting on.
The new toolkit allows developers to embed their non-Notion agents directly in Notion, including Claude, ChatGPT, and the like. That means you can chat with them directly in Notion, just like Notion AI.
And vice versa: Custom Agents created in Notion can be embedded outside of Notion while retaining their full context and capabilities. That means you can engage a Notion agent in Slack, for example.
The toolkit also allows external agents like Cowork (Claude) and Codex (ChatGPT) to communicate with Notion agents.
With AI, everyone's a software developer, and creating Notion Workers is no exception. I encourage you to ask Notion AI, Claude, or your other preferred AI to:
These new features coincide with a major upgrade to Notion A-to-Z. I've reimagined it around dynamic workshops, templates, and plugins that keep pace with Notion and help you get the most from the app as it evolves. We'll spend meaningful time on Workers and the other features announced this week.
The new format of Notion A-to-Z is part of a broader initiative to offer all of my premium resources within a single membership, Nutt Labs Circle, which will also include my AI Orchestration program and the next version of the Bulletproof Framework. Bulletproof v5 will leverage Notion's latest capabilities and, for the first time, have adaptations for multiple productivity apps, including Airtable and Google Sheets.
Existing members of Notion A-to-Z will migrate to Nutt Labs Circle, with no change to their annual rate. If you haven't yet joined, use the code FOUNDING_VIP for an extra $50 off the Founding Member price. It's active for the next 24 hours.
I'm thrilled for this new era of our shared Notion journey and hope to have you aboard.