Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

In Brief

Productivity institution Notion is shutting down its email product, Notion Mail, connected September 22. The institution said it is discontinuing its email inbox successful favour of its AI cause offering. It noted that users were progressively handing implicit reins of their email to the agents, and not opening their inbox astatine all.

“As Notion agents person gotten much capable, we’ve seen much users manus disconnected email workflows to them. Today, much than fractional of Notion Mail users negociate emails without ever opening their inbox. So, we’re going each successful connected utilizing agents to tally your inbox,” the institution said successful a station connected X.

Notion Mail is connected with Gmail, meaning each emails successful the inbox volition enactment intact. However, users volition request to export drafts and scheduled emails if they privation to support them. The institution said that users tin export snippets and auto-label instructions and usage them elsewhere and emphasized that Notion’s email-based agents volition support moving post-Notion Mail shutdown.

Notion announced its email merchandise successful preview mode successful 2024 aft it acquired security-centric productivity startup Skiff. The institution aimed to integrate email with Notion AI with features similar auto-labeling, filtering, and handling scheduling for users. The institution made the merchandise disposable to users successful April 2025 to amended vie with the likes of Superhuman and Fyxer. Newer startups similar AgentMail are successful measurement with Notion’s thesis and are trying to physique an email work specifically for agents.

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