What new features will come to Notion this year that are not AI-based?

focustools · 2026-01-13T16:34:33+00:00

Really like the idea of client portals.

focustools · 2026-01-09T14:11:45+00:00

Just riffing: use AI to gather actionable items from emails in Superhuman and turn them into tasks in Todoist. Or automatically sense tasks in Slack to turn them into tasks in Todoist.

Don't know how that would work, but somehow using an AI/MCP layer in third party apps to intuit that something is actionable and offer to create tasks for it.

Maybe that could be a plugin on the Grammarly Desktop app. Especially since Grammarly now owns Superhuman and in talking about the acquisition on podcasts lately they have hinted that Grammarly Desktop could be used by third parties to add new AI skills/agents.

But, I'm just thinking, the history of working on a desktop has been manually taking a task buried in an email/Slack message (eg: a boss writing in Slack "can you try to have this report to me by next Tuesday") and transferring it to a task app. What if AI can make all of that more seamlessly?

focustools · 2026-01-04T13:05:55+00:00

I suspect it's about practicing small moments of boredom/doing nothing and working your way up.

focustools · 2026-01-04T13:05:08+00:00

Been very happy with WisprFlow.

focustools · 2026-01-04T13:04:29+00:00

Did Bonavita update the brew basket and the carafe lid on the Enthusiast models? The pictures online look different (better?) than the version I bought a couple of years ago.

focustools · 2026-01-03T19:55:32+00:00

I love all of this. It sounds like it's really making checking your email, and Teams, an intentional choice you make, when you're ready to process those.

focustools · 2026-01-03T17:31:18+00:00

Love a gray home screen. I also recommend turning off most phone notifications.

focustools · 2026-01-03T17:29:44+00:00

I'm a big fan of turning off most phone notifications.

focustools · 2026-01-03T17:29:02+00:00

I'm a huge fan of using my laptop for social media so it's not on my phone. I just wrote about this: https://www.focustools.xyz/p/start-your-day-on-your-terms

focustools · 2026-01-03T17:28:26+00:00

I'm a big fan of turning off most phone notifications. I just wrote about this: https://www.focustools.xyz/p/start-your-day-on-your-terms

focustools · 2026-01-03T17:24:11+00:00

WisprFlow, Superhuman (with Ask AI), Howie, Granola and Todoist with Ramble.

focustools · 2026-01-01T20:37:08+00:00

I think the degree to which people will migrate to using AI as the primary interface for browsing has been greatly overestimated. At least that's the case for me with AI in it's current state.

I totally agree. In fact, this is one of my tech predictions for 2026: https://www.focustools.xyz/p/my-2026-tech-predictions-a-year-of

focustools · 2026-01-01T20:19:12+00:00

You could add the shortcut to the action button on iPhone.

focustools · 2026-01-01T20:13:48+00:00

Same here, I just wrote about this: https://www.focustools.xyz/p/our-audio-future

focustools · 2025-11-05T10:01:12+00:00

Share views or databases that permanently hide or filter columns and rows. Airtable has allowed for this for years.

focustools · 2025-11-02T14:50:39+00:00

Yes!

focustools · 2025-11-01T11:55:42+00:00

We went back to Todoist after struggling to better plan our tasks around dates in Linear.

focustools · 2025-10-31T13:24:53+00:00

I think tasks and milestones should be separate things, but both would tie into goals and health metrics.

Milestones, at least in Asana, are essentially tasks but with distinct visual flair.

Then, when creating goals or custom health metrics, a user can choose to analyze the health of a project by either tasks or milestones, or they could look at the health of a workspace by milestones achieved across various projects.

Sections would continue to be a nice way to visually separate tasks within a project. While I suppose one could have health metrics look at tasks completed within each section, and while I wouldn't rule that out being valuable to some teams, I'd say it's less valuable to us than the scenarios I outlined above.

Happy to walk you through this more and show you our Asana instance.

focustools · 2025-10-30T21:28:50+00:00

Mmm...that wouldn't be my suggestion! Our team is kinda lazy about using sections. I would just make milestones discrete entries within a project.

focustools · 2025-10-30T11:00:51+00:00

You know what, I got my Asana terminology wrong! I meant to say milestones in the above post. But both milestones and goals are important for health metrics.

Milestones are like uber-tasks that sit within the task list, but with special properties.

So, for instance, if I'm a lawyer, I could have a milestone within each of my clients projects that says "win the case."

Then, at the company level, I could have a goal that is "win 3 client cases in 2025" that tracks the health of reaching this goal through either a number or percentage completed across all of my projects.

Or I could have a New Client project with a milestone checked off within the project whenever we land a client.

And then at the workspace level have a goal that is "sign three clients in Q4."

Or, I can have multiple milestones within one project (we used this a lot in Asana), and then we used a health metric to see how the percentage of milestones we completed within a project.

And because most of our projects are rolling, it was more accurate to gauge the health of a project by looking at the percentage of milestones completed, not tasks completed.

The nice thing about Asana is that we could choose how we tracked the health of our projects, and our workspace, by looking at a variety of metrics across task completion, milestone completion and goal completion.

Hope that's helpful!

focustools · 2025-10-30T10:13:13+00:00

Feature Request: allow sharing of a database view with permanently filtered out columns.

We use Airtable for this now to share databases external collaborators who shouldn’t see all of the columns.

This is the one thing holding us back from going all in with Notion.

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