Q&A

Q&A searches pages you can access in your workspace. It never uses info from pages you can’t access.

• Q&A can reference pages you’ve created, pages shared with you, and pages shared with everyone in your workspace.

• Q&A’s answers depend on the information in your workspace. Having more content can help Q&A find relevant answers. We recommend having at least 100 pages to get the most out of Q&A. If your workspace has fewer pages, we may ask you to import content before you use Q&A.

• It can take about an hour for new content to appear in Q&A results.

• If Q&A can’t find an answer in your workspace, it will say so rather than give you an unsupported answer. This can also help you spot gaps in your documentation.

• Help with tasks, such as creating a page or adding a diagram.

• Search your workspace to find answers.

• Answer questions about pages, people, and databases. Use @-mentions to focus your question.

• Bring together info from databases and their properties.

• Use the page you’re viewing as context.

• Answer general knowledge questions.

• Cite specific blocks from Notion pages in its answers.

• Answer questions using content in an embed, such as a video or PDF.

• Edit existing page content.

• Filter database views or calculate totals, such as counting the rows in a view.

Q&A is available on web, desktop, and mobile. You can open it in a few ways.

On web or desktop:

• Select Notion AI in the sidebar to open Q&A in full screen.

• Press cmd/ctrl + J to open Notion AI while you work. In the desktop app, press cmd/ctrl + shift + J to open it from anywhere on your computer. You can change this shortcut in your settings.

On mobile:

• Tap the Ask AI anything... bar at the bottom of the screen.

• Open search, then select Ask AI anything in [workspace].

After you open Q&A:

1. Enter your question.

2. Review the answer and the pages Q&A used to find it.

3. Select Try again for a different answer, or select Copy answer to save it. Each question you ask counts as one Notion AI response.

You can also:

• Connect Slack to Notion AI to ask questions about messages in your Slack workspace. Learn more in Notion AI Connectors.

• Send a page search to Q&A. Press cmd/ctrl + F, enter your query, then press cmd/ctrl + enter.

You can open Q&A on your iPhone in a few ways:

• Ask Siri to open Notion AI.

• Search for Notion in Spotlight.

• Open the Shortcuts app, find Notion, then tap AI to ask a question. To add the shortcut to your Home Screen, press and hold AI, then tap Add to Home Screen.

On iPhone 15 Pro, you can set the Action button to open Notion AI.

On desktop, Command Search lets you open search and Q&A without switching windows or bringing Notion to the foreground. Open it with a keyboard shortcut, from the menu bar on Mac, or from the taskbar on Windows.

Command Search is on by default. In settings, you can turn it off, hide Notion from the menu bar, or change the Command Search shortcut and Notion AI shortcut. The setting names are Use Command Search and Show Notion in menu bar.

Notion is also set to open when you sign in. To change this:

• On Mac: Right-click the Notion icon in the Dock, then select Options → Open at Login to clear the checkmark.

• On Windows: Right-click the Notion icon in the taskbar, then select Launch Preferences → Open Notion at Login to turn it off.

You can use Q&A in any Notion workspace, regardless of the language you’ve selected in your settings. Q&A works best in English, and we’re working to improve its responses in other languages.

Notion AI, including asking questions about your workspace, comes with the Business and Enterprise plans.

We take the same precautions with your data for Q&A as we do with the rest of Notion. We don't train AI models on your data. Learn more in Notion AI security practices.