Notion Mail Is Shutting Down
3 35Notion announced that it will shut down its email client on September 22. The company says more than half of users already manage email through Notion's AI agents without opening their inbox, so it is shifting its focus from a traditional email client to agent-run workflows. Engadget reports: It has published an FAQ for users to make sure that they don't lose any messages or data in the transition. Most emails will still exist in a Gmail inbox, but customers will need to manually export their drafts, scheduled emails, snippets and auto label instructions. Notion first began offering Notion Mail after acquiring startup Skiff in 2024.
3 comments
Re: Never heard of either Notion/Skiff (Score: 5, Insightful)
by Kiffer ( 206134 ) on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:37AM (#66211766)
This is a death spiral for a lot of software and services. "Only 45% of our users use this feature, so we can cut it. Only 15 percent use this feature so we can cut it." Repeat a couple of times.
But, those features that might have seemed like niche features were the feature that those customers valued. So now, 45% of your users just stop being users. Yes-yes they probably used the other features too, but, they needed the feature that you cut, so they have to go else where to find it.
I've seen it over and over. Version 1 of software has 100 features. Version two, developed using Agile Methodologies, some witt sets the priorities for features such that any feature used by fewer than 25% of users is so low a priority that it never gets implemented. That's enough features that every user uses at least a couple of them, in a non-overlapping mess of usage patterns.
Everyone is unhappy, management decides it's because they didn't have needed features and instead had a something that no one actually wanted, but became someone's personal hill to die on in a planning meeting, and no one can tell him no. So they implement the feature, and 75% of users turn it off... so next update that "feature" can't be turned off because someone went to bat so hard for it that they can't cope with the idea that they should have just implemented the missing old features.
Got a bit ranty, don't use Notion, but it sounds like whoever is in charge has notions.
Re:Can't Wrap My Head Around Notion (Score: 5, Informative)
by SumDog ( 466607 ) on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:27AM (#66211624)
It's a wiki. It's an ultra shitty clone of Confluence. We used it at my last company and it sucked ass. Some people use it for general note taking.
Who, and who? (Score: 5, Funny)
by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) on <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:50AM (#66211690)
News for nobody. Stuff that doesn't matter.