so notion have a few new features out and we're going to talk about what they are how they work
and what it means for the future of notion welcome everyone my name is Francesco today's
video is kindly brought to you by vimcow vimcao is an AI powered calendar designed for teams and
individuals that have lots of meetings so let's dive into three features that are in Vim account
first of those is slots and time travel this is perfect for finding slots sharing them with other
people and with Team plans as well you get to have that booking slot organized and coordinated
with the other person which is perfect and great for being able to collaborate the second feature
that's pretty cool is natural language input which allows you to pay something like Thursday
at 3 P.M Starbucks and tagging the people you want to go with natural language helps you to
plan that in and create an event really easily and finally there's a feature called AI Time free time
finder which allows you to take a screenshot of an email or maybe even copy the email that with
a bunch of times that somebody recommended it'll paste it into the calendar and allow you to see
the slots and pick which one you want you can even bring in a calendar link as well which will
save you time if you're booking via calendly or the other person is booking via can only two so
that's Vim count and you can check it out in the link in description so notion have released a fair
few additions and I want to talk about a few of them mainly these smaller features first and then
riding into the much bigger features and what they mean for notion in the future so let's start with
the upgraded sharing abilities this is something that notion has had problems with for a long time
now but sharing has become much more synced inside of your notion account which means you
can see where and who has access whether that's team owners or individuals admins or members
which is perfect for making sure you know who has access and who doesn't this is something that is
a quality of life update but notion continues to evolve this and improve it next up is the ability
to connect connect Google drive to tasks inside of notion projects this is perfect for sharing
maybe approvals or designs or marketing material but in general great for being able to connect
Google drive with subtasks that are in your projects next up is Task dependencies now this
is great for example when you're planning using timeline view but they've really enhanced this
with a few different parameters that set around task dependencies this is great if you're just
looking to make sure you adapt it to what you and your team are working on so that it doesn't make
sure it misses a beat when you've moved something about a notion moving on there's a i prompts that
you can now save as favorites if you've got the add-on for notion AI you can now save prompts into
a favorited area which is great if you're sharing for example you've got a table that AI has created
routinely for you and you want to be able to bring that up at any given time without having to type
it out this is a great little Time Saver notion is now 10 faster on mobile in the re recently
visited Pages this is great for quickly jumping back in and of course it's going to work with
the live widgets which allow to jump back into the application much more smoothly and finally they've
released Integrations Gallery which is perfect if you're looking to find an integration to connect
things up with and it's a perfect segue into one of their bigger features that they've all recently
released the more recent re-rease feature that's pretty big is automations and this is really
touted as notion 3.0 it's a way to take databases that step further by connecting it to things that
are outside of notion and notion have done a pretty good job in the last couple of years with
the API but this really takes it a lot further now just to be clear notion plans um actually
don't all have automations in I believe there's some limitations I haven't quite found what those
limitations are but I want to try and include them in the link in description but you do need
a certain plan type I assume it's probably Plus or onwards but that's just uh in in my mind so so
database automations allow you to take something in your database that you might do routinely and
automate it using either something that changes the database in interaction or something that
externally changes the database so something that might internally change it could be a flow
for example if you change for example editing to published maybe it gets sent to somebody that's in
social media management so that they can make a post on that video that you've just created
that's an example of an internal use of database and finally the external could be something like
a slack message that notifies somebody of a change in status now this isn't brand new but
the Integrations Gallery would really take this a lot further and some fantastic demonstrations
of how it's being used is with slack with this banking example to give you an update on whether
a banking process has been changed and you can also set it up for example um in in this
way like being able to take advantage of it with internal use as well now this is some something
that you can watch a full video by Daniel who has a fantastic channel that digs deep into notion
I'll link that one in the description below but notion have their own database automations video
on this anyhow and finally the addition that a lot of people will really like is freezing the
tables you can now freeze a certain table in a row or column and this will allow you to really see
it omnipresently across which is great for saving time when you're scrolling around and it will give
you more clarity when you're managing databases at scale so that was Notions updates in today's
video hopefully it give you a bit of an idea of where notion you're heading of course notion of
really trying to enhance stuff and I think that the AI side of stuff will probably come into
the play with database automation mainly because for example if you have a database that is just
whirling and you're doing things in the background and the AI works out what routine things you do
it will suggest an automation to add actually just Implement instead of actually you doing it
yourself so I think AI has a lot of potential with databases and how it can really move that forward
so I'm sure notion of working on it but it's something I think where notion could really evolve
into we're working and taking the stress out of things you do routinely in databases so thank
you very much thanks to vimcan for sponsoring today's feature and folks I will see you in the
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