“We want to help people build software that works the way their minds work,” said Akshay Kothari, Notion’s co-founder and Chief Operating Officer. “Our dream is that you just need one product, and it covers a lot of the core software use cases.”
For much of its early life, Notion was known as a flexible notes app. Clean, customizable, and widely adopted by individual users and small teams. But over the past two years, the company has been methodically recasting itself into something else. A deeply integrated workspace platform, built to centralize the scattered workflows of modern teams, and now powered by AI.
Its newest feature, an AI-based meeting transcription and notetaking tool, marks Notion’s entry into a competitive category dominated by startups like Otter, Circleback, Granola, and Read AI, as well as built-in offerings from Zoom and ClickUp. The feature allows users to record meetings, automatically transcribe audio, and generate summaries formatted for different use cases like sales calls, standups, or team meetings. While the AI runs in the background, users can simultaneously take manual notes. The feature currently supports over a dozen languages and is available for Mac desktop users (app version 4.7.0), with mobile support expected.
