How to Use Notion AI: A Beginner’s Guide (2026)

How to Use Notion AI is simple once you know where its main features are. Notion AI is built into Notion and can draft and edit text, answer questions using your workspace, and create or update pages and databases. Here’s how to use Notion AI for beginners in four practical steps, starting with plan access.

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Step 1: Check Your Plan and Open Notion AI

Notion AI is included with the Business and Enterprise plans. Free and Plus include a limited number of complimentary AI responses so you can try the features. (Verified: September 2026)

Enterprise has custom pricing. (Verified: September 2026)

Pricing may change, so check the official Notion pricing page for the latest information.

Notion AI is no longer sold as a separate add-on to new customers, so older guides showing separate AI add-on pricing are out of date.

To open it, click the circular face icon in the bottom-right corner of your workspace, or open the Notion AI tab in the left sidebar.

Step 2: How to Use Notion AI to Write and Edit Text

• Edit text: Highlight text and choose an action such as fixing grammar, shortening or expanding it, changing the tone, or translating it. You can also enter your own instruction.
• Draft new text: Press Space on an empty line and enter a prompt.
• Add an AI block: Type /AI Block to generate custom content, a page summary, or key points. Click Generate when you want to refresh the output.

You can accept, discard, or retry the result. For example, a blogger can turn rough bullet points into a first-draft introduction and then ask Notion AI to make it shorter.

Notion recommends checking AI-generated output for accuracy, so verify important facts before publishing. If you’re working on written content, ByteTony’s Word Counter can also help you quickly check the length of your final draft.

Step 3: Ask Notion Agent to Find, Summarize, or Do Tasks

Notion Agent is a chat assistant designed for multi-step tasks. It can use context from your workspace, connected apps, and the web, and it can create or edit pages and databases for you.

Try prompts like:

• “Summarize my meeting notes from this week.”
• “Create a content calendar database for October with columns for status and due date.”

Specific prompts usually produce better results. Name the page or database, describe what you want, and specify the output format. If the result isn’t right, tell the Agent what to change.

Notion Agent follows your personal permissions: if you can’t view or edit specific content, your Agent can’t either. It also asks for confirmation before deleting a page.

To let the Agent search supported apps such as Slack or Google Drive, connect them under Settings → Notion AI → AI connectors. Availability and setup requirements can vary by connector.

If you’re building a productivity workflow for school or personal projects, you may also find these productivity apps for students useful alongside Notion.

Step 4: Automate a Database With AI Autofill

If you track content, clients, or tasks in a database, AI Autofill can automatically fill a property for each row:

1. Hover over the property and click its name.
2. Select AI Autofill or Set up AI Autofill.
3. Choose Basic.
4. Pick an action: Summary, Translate, Key info, or Custom autofill.
5. Choose when it runs, then save.

For example, you can generate a one-line summary or a topic tag for each article idea in a content database.

Basic Autofill uses that row’s page content rather than searching the web or other workspace pages. It’s included in Business and Enterprise and doesn’t use Notion credits. (Verified: September 2026)

FAQ

What are Custom Agents, and do beginners need them?
Custom Agents can handle repetitive tasks automatically, while your personal Notion Agent works when you prompt it. Custom Agents are available on Business and Enterprise. After the trial period, they use Notion credits, which cost $10 per 1,000 monthly credits; actual usage depends on how much work the Agent performs. (Verified: September 2026) Most beginners can skip them.

Does Notion use my content to train AI models?
Not unless you opt in, according to Notion. Its agreements also prevent AI subprocessors from training models on customer data. Workspace owners can manage data-sharing settings under Settings → Notion AI. (Verified: September 2026)

Conclusion

Start by using Notion AI to edit or draft content on one real page, then move to Notion Agent when you’re comfortable with the basics. If you’re on Free or Plus, use the complimentary AI responses to test your own workflow before deciding whether upgrading to Business makes sense for you.