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today I'm going to talk about notion AI yes artificial intelligence meets notion this is a brand new feature and I actually wasn't supposed to make this video this week but notion surprised us with yet another cool and mind-blowing feature and probably one of the best features to come out probably ever but I'd really have to think about that one so we are going to talk about everything involved with notion a i and if right
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now you are running to your workspace to go check out this new feature you probably do not have it unless you have signed up for the waiting list notion AI is right now in Alpha and there is a waiting list to join I'm going to leave a link down in the description so you can go sign up now if you haven't already so it might be a little bit of a longer video but if you are excited and curious about what it entails I am gonna go through absolutely everything without
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wasting too much time let's first get into the specs like I said notion a i Alpha is currently on waiting list and there will be a link down in the description to sign up if you haven't already it is going to be a first come first serve basis next what is the cost here so initially a notion AI Alpha will be free but according to their landing page it will have a cost in the future
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exactly what that cost will be no one really knows right now lastly what is the model here for the AI so it seems to be based on open ai's GPT 3. okay so let's just get right into these features this is an example of a technical article called calculate percentage of true check boxes in a row this is regarding the notion database so I've
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already created I've already written this article in the body of the page what I want to do at the top of the page is just generate a summary of what I've already written so to do that I'm going to go to my block menu and this is where you're going to find all of your AI features and the top four here are probably the ones you're going to use the most if you go to more you have more options let's select summarize so here we have this code so it knows
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it's a code calculates the percentage of true check boxes in a row so this is a good summary I'm going to keep this but what I want to do is add a little bit more information to do that I'm going to go forward slash and go to this option continue writing or I can just start to type it out continue writing and it should show up and I can press enter and now it should give me a little bit more information so let's keep that
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what I can also do is highlight this block of text and inside of the toolbar I now have an AI assist I can summarize this further I can also translate into another language and let's translate this into Spanish [Music] foreign now what I can do is either replace my English with this translation or insert
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below I'm going to insert below now what you can also do if I just highlight this again is go to help me edit so just with the selected text I can give it a prompt like maybe convert into bullet points and I can replace it like that let's look at another way we can use summarize with an empty page and just a
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title to work with I'm also going to use that summarize option and it is available even with an empty page and gives you a pretty good summary I'm going to keep this and maybe throw it inside of a call out and I've already got something to work with and I can keep writing in this page using of course like we saw the forward slash continue writing or other options
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as well which we're about to get into back to my technical article I'm going to go down to a specific section here called formula breakdown what I want to do here is in step one I'm going to add a block underneath the code and I want to expand more on how the unary plus function in notion formulas works so what I'm going to do is go to the block menu and select help me write so what helped me write is is probably the one you're going to use the most
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here this is a general prompt to the AI so for instance explain how the unary plus function in notion works I'm going to keep this what I can also do is generate tables so under formula breakdown I'm going to copy this code to my clipboard and go forward slash again help me write
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I'm going to say first in a table show all functions used in this notion formula with description and syntax and I'm just going to paste that formula in and see if it knows exactly what I'm looking for so you'll notice inside of this box down here Alpha AI output can be inaccurate
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and misleading so sometimes you'll get results that aren't exactly what you're looking for there is an option here to give some feedback for this AI basically in this little box here describe how I would like this output to be improved so that will help with improving accuracy so let's keep this and in this table I can now go to options and highlight the header column and row
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and with tables of course I can also convert them into databases so inside of the block menu I can quickly turn this into a database so as you can see this is going to be really helpful for quickly creating sample databases or grabbing information from the web and putting it directly into a database now you won't be able to create a database from the AI prompt but you can create a table like this and convert it into a
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database there is an option in the block menu for if we go to more blog post so if I click this I can say the best proven productivity techniques now let's generate a blog post so first it does give thus this introduction it's giving us the Pomodoro Technique the Eisenhower Matrix
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and even some bullet points on how that works 5217 technique and a conclusion so this is pretty good I definitely wouldn't publish this as is of course I would go ahead and edit it and add more to it now if this is a little bit too much personally with my writing workflow I don't like this feature I'd much rather work with an outline of ideas and then
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work from there so let's use that approach instead so to create an outline I can say forward slash outline because there is an option for that as well and here I can maybe give it a little bit more of a prompt like practical and easy productivity techniques so I don't want methods like the Pomodoro method here I'm just looking for everyday things I can do to be more
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productive at least that's what I'm hoping it will generate great that's exactly what I wanted defining goals planning your time breaking down tasks Etc so let's just keep that there and I'll work with this outline for example under defining your goals I can bring up help me write and specifically I want to write about why defining
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your goals is beneficial great so I can work with this I can edit it and expand from here so let's say I want um a list of bullet points but I want them in this way I want a bullet point and I want a short paragraph describing that bullet point let's delete these bullet points down here and just say forward slash continue writing so what this will do is see this format in a
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bullet point and a paragraph and it will likely generate more bullet points and paragraphs foreign bullet points here and I could even just continue writing after prioritization um but this is something that I'm more interested in so what I can do is even convert this bullet point into a header
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and work with this little outline what I can also do is create a pros and cons list so at the top of this blog post I'm going to say forward slash and under more pros and cons list I really like this one using popular product ivity techniques great so we have some pros like you can
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get more done in less time and some cons like they may not work for everyone and they may not be suitable for all personality types or all types of work may require some discipline to stick to and so on so let's keep this you know I could drag the cons next to the pros here [Music] so an essential feature here that notion
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actually didn't have before which is spelling and grammar it had spelling check but not Grammar so let's first generate a block with help me write generate a paragraph with poor spelling and grammar I can just highlight the text again and go to the toolbar AI assist and fix that spelling and grammar and this is what notion gives you as a
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correction so I can either replace this text or insert it below let's replace it so the native program already has spelling corrections but with the AI you'll have the addition of this grammar check back at this technical article let's say I want to use this article to create a YouTube video but I want some ideas for YouTube titles what I can use inside the body of the page is the brainstorm ideas
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option so inside the block menu brainstorm ideas and let's say creative YouTube titles for a notion tutorial about calculating the percentage of check boxes in notion okay so we have some titles here how to
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increase productivity with checkboxes and notion that's a pretty good one also how do you get the most out of check boxes in notion is also a good one so let's take a look at more basic math as well so I do like these ideas maximizing your use of check boxes so I can work with these ideas and sort of play around with them if there's any key words that I want to use I can add it to
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these titles in the body of the page I can just start typing my prompt for example I can say forward slash creative YouTube titles for a notion tutorial and you'll notice that we can just select this prompt and it will generate a result
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so you don't have to bring up that help me write option you can just start typing in line as long as you start the prompt with forward slash let's go down to the bottom of the page I have a section called Twitter promotion I want to generate an example of a Twitter post so there is a prompt specifically for social media posts
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so let's say a promotion for a new blog post about calculating the percentage of notion check boxes I could also maybe generate another post if I don't like that one all right this is more of what I would write especially this line this can be useful can be a useful metric to track
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your productivity and goal progress so I'll keep that and I do like these tags productivity goals and notion if I were posting this to Instagram I'd probably use those hashtags maybe turn this header into text now let's see how we can use this to create some code so let's design a login screen using HTML CSS and JavaScript
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so let's say design a login screen into separate HTML and CSS sections let's leave JavaScript out of the equation for now foreign okay so this is a pretty simple set of code let's keep that and in the same format this says login.css I'm going to say login dot JavaScript and then right after this because we
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have the same format here it should generate for a login screen some JavaScript so I'm going to select continue writing from here and it does give me this code block so it's keeping that format which is very nice let's keep that and see what this looks like this is what our login screen looks like welcome username password General login
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button so that's pretty cool it gives us a skeletal version of a login screen and of course through that prompt maybe we could give it some more instructions especially for the design and like I said using that continue writing feature is so nice and it should keep the same format and generally know what you are trying to create like this login screen
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okay so now let's look at how the AI can help with calculations I have two different prompts here I have one that's written in text so what is the compounding amount of one thousand dollars investment with a five percent interest rate for 10 years let's see what the AI does with this information by highlighting the text and going to AI assist help me edit let's do calculate so it does give us a full sentence in
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return but does give us the calculation let's do the same thing with a mathematical expression highlight help me edit and calculate okay so this does give us the same result and it does give us some text after I would prefer to just give me the number let's just insert that below and grab this number now what I want to see is if this number
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is even correct I mean it does give it to me twice so it is likely that that is the case let's try converting this text down here into an inline equation so I want to transform this into K text format let's see if I can do that so in AI assist help me edit convert
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into K text foreign so it does pretty much give us what we need here what katex is is you can wrap an equation like this with double dollar signs it does give us single dollar signs so let's insert and just add another dollar sign to beginning here and then just add 2 to the end and it
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does give us an inline equation yes you can generate creative writing prompts and poems so let's start let's say we want to start writing a story but we don't quite know what to write about instead of brainstorming ideas right away maybe we can generate a random photo from the internet as a prompt so let's say help me write and then let's say random image
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from a website that I know has free images pexels.com interesting I don't quite know what this is oh so it does give us a description down at the bottom here this image shows a close-up of a yellow flower let's keep it so uh from this picture let's think of some ideas for a short story so let's go to brainstorm ideas story ideas
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about a botanist and a mysterious yellow flower okay okay so that first one kind of makes me laugh about Miss falls in love with a flower but some of these other ideas are pretty good and let's take one and work with it so a botanist finds a flower that can bring people back to life let's drag this down to the bottom in a new block and turn it into a heading
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[Music] and from here I can copy this go to more in the block menu and go to creative story and I'm going to paste this title in and generate a synopsis for a story so what this gives us is a few paragraphs about what the story is and also a title so the botanist Miracle
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flower as a title example and we can start using some other AI features to continue expanding upon this story like continue writing you can brainstorm more ideas and create outlines now let's take a look at some workplace use cases so in this meeting notes database I have a meeting for habit tracker product release so what I want to do is
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generate a meeting agenda so I can go to more here and there is an option for meeting agenda discuss marketing strategies and user research so this is nice to just get the ball rolling and get a meeting agenda outlined now down below let's just open this up as a page I want to generate a sales email for a new notion habit
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tracker so let's generate that email and go to sales email so email to returning customers about a new habit tracker notion template let's see what that does so we do have a subject line let's just highlight that we have an introduction hello
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body of the email let's see what this says if you're like most people you probably resolved uh to make some changes in the New Year okay so it is giving our recipient um a use case for this habit tracker so what better way to make these changes stick than by using our new habit tracker so this template is designed to help you track your progress set goals and stay motivated so this is all really great so if you're looking to make some lasting
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changes in 2020 so that is something that I would edit 2023 be sure to check out our new habit tracker template and then a sign off so this is the structure of the email options let's go back and go down to the bottom of this page where we have a database for job openings so let's say your company has a database of different job openings and the status of them like
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a system administrator status is not started there's another status option for interviewing and then complete would be hired so we have a little bit of an overview here and you can generate job descriptions with the AI that looks a little bit like this so let's go to software engineer and generate a job description so we can specify not only a software
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engineer position but also what type of education requirements experience so on so software engineer post-grad requirement and three plus years experience so we have an overview some responsibilities that may be involved for a software engineer and the qualifications including the ones we
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specified like three plus years of experience foreign let's say you're a student writing an essay on the dangers of productivity culture there is another AI option to generate an essay so let's create that here and I want to prompt how toxic productivity culture can damage Mental Health
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one thing that it's not giving me is a conclusion paragraph so I can add a header here called conclusion and just forward slash continue writing now if I want to do a little bit more research about these topics I can do something like this let's highlight the negative effects of productivity culture go to AI assist help me edit and I'm going to generate a
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list of web pages on this topic so bulleted list of web pages on this topic and there we have four different web pages just insert that underneath and we can go ahead and do this with each header now let's look at just a general example of information scraping from the
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internet using a I so let's say I want a list of the US presidents and the year they served what I can do is just say in a table list of U.S presidents and the year they served or the years they served great this is now generating the entire list of U.S presidents
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and grabbing this from the internet and like I said before I can convert these tables into a database and then maybe convert your served to a number quickly that will just give me that first year there
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and then I can sort ascending or descending so that's the benefit of translating these tables into databases we can start filtering and sorting information that we've grabbed from the internet so that's one way we can information scrape we can also generate new information or sample data so what I mean by this is if you're a web designer and you want to
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generate some placeholder text for instance let's say placeholder or Epson text with headers [Music] so it's giving us three headers in fact it's giving us the actual headings so you'll notice that this header one is actually heading one two is two and three is three so that's pretty cool I can also
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um specify how many paragraphs I want here also with generating information I can tell the AI prompt that I want random information so as someone who builds notion tutorials and notion templates I frequently create sample data so if I'm creating a task manager I'm going to say in a table fill three tasks for a software engineer
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date description and done check box what I'm doing here is I'm specifying in this table with commas what I want these columns to do now let's see if that is exactly what it generates yeah that's pretty much what it generates here we have examples of random tasks that a software engineer would have reviewing code changes implementing a new feature and write unit tests for a new feature and even a description for those tasks
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and a date and a empty done column so before I turn this into a database what I want to do is just highlight this header row so it knows that's my column title and convert into a database so let's just rename this to task manager example I can convert date to a eight property description I can maybe wrap this column
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and the done check box I want to turn into a checkbox property great now I have a quick sample database with filled in examples so that's about all I wanted to share with you today I know that was a lot but I really just wanted to give you a full look at what this AI feature can do and I'm pretty sure I touched on literally everything I
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know this was a longer video um in the future I will make more content I'll probably integrate my content with AI to some degree especially when more people have access to it I might really focus in on one of these examples and give you more of a robust tour that's about it let's just go right into the outro now there is a lot in this feature that I am still learning and still trying to incorporate
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into my workspace and into my workflow as you can see here in this video with that being said I'm really excited for everyone to have this available in their workspace and to talk about it online because I feel like only a small group of people right now actually have it and yeah I will see you guys the rest of the week on Twitter and next time with a new video I'll see you then
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