Changelog & monthly updates
March
Hi there 👋
It’s Flo here with our monthly update of what we’ve been up to in March.
It’s been quite a rocky month for Notis as we brought a lot of deep infrastructure changes in production to help us scale Notis in the long run.
Here is everything we released last month:
🔍 Notis Gets Smarter: our New Agentic Engine
Notis is a multi-agent AI. In plain English, Notis is actually a collection of highly specialized agents with high agency that collaborate to handle your tasks. For example, when you ask Notis to compile a research report on the best AI image generation model, here's what happens in the span of 1-3 minutes:
The "triage agent" decides which agents should work on the task and briefs them.
The "context agent" searches for existing sources within your Notion workspace and performs a perplexity web search in parallel.
The "upsert agent" will create a document and save it in the correct place in your Notion workspace.
The "response agent" compiles all the answers into a single message or a single voice message.
This new architecture (and everything we built to support it) will allow us to constantly improve and add capabilities to Notis without making Notis less reliable in the process.
Bringing this live meant that we basically rewrote Notis' 20,000 lines code base in March. So a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to help us ironing this out. We truly have the best users!
🚀 Turbo Mode for Telegram
We strapped a rocket to our Telegram bot and it's flying. More seriously, we're testing some radical infrastructure changes on Telegram that double the speed at which Notis can answer your queries. We're confident we can eventually bring this to WhatsApp as well. For now, we're committed to bringing all Beta features first to Telegram; so jump to our Telegram bot if you want to test out new features first.
Notis on Mac: our New Raycast Extension
I originally created Notis to assist me when I was out and about with transcribing my thoughts and keeping track of my tasks. But as she became more autonomous, I found myself delegating more tasks from Telegram on my computer. But this felt like too many clicks to get the job done.
Raycast has been my favorite Mac app for years. It's quite like having superpowers compared to people who are not using it. So earlier this month, I hijacked their hackathon to develop my own Notis extension.
The result is a sick way to delegate anything to Notis - one that is always a keyboard shortcut away from whatever you're doing. Equipped with voice response, Notis gets back to you very naturally whenever the job is done. Watch a quick demo here and download here.
🐞 Other small improvements
You can now assign people to tasks with Notis.
We're now indexing your Notion pages - not just databases entries.
Notis has stopped changing the icon when updating a document.
You can now ask Notis to remember your timezone.
If Notis misspells some words repeatedly, you can ask her to add them to your dictionary.
🗞️ In Other News
This french Notis user made a killer review of Notis
We have a new status page and changelog page. Yay 🎊
I spent way too much time create this animation for the website 😅. Can you guess what's coming next?
📰 AI News & Team Picks
Here's everything cool we saw happening this month in AI:
🤖 Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Goes Live: Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro landed, their smartest AI model yet. Even agains OpenAI own benchmark, it's a leap forward.
🚀 DeepSeek Steps Up Its Game: The same day, DeepSeek dropped a significant upgrade to its DeepSeek-VL model, improving multi-modal reasoning big time.
🎨 OpenAI’s New Image Generation Goes Viral: OpenAI launched a much needed update to their image generation model. The world went crazy for its ability to mimic Studio Ghibli’s iconic style on people's own family photos.
📈 Anthropic's Economic Insights: Anthropic released fresh insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet, highlighting cool trends about how industries are actually using AI. Great read for AI economy enthusiasts.
⚡️ Cursor’s MAX Mode for Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Cursor introduced MAX mode—maxed-out thinking, tool use, and context management (200k tokens!). It’s proving seriously good at helping me code Notis 🤯
That's it for this month. See you in May!
Flo
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February
Hi there 👋
It’s Flo here with our first monthly update of what we’ve been up to in February. It’s been a busy month to say the least! Make sure to check out our AI news and team picks at the bottom of the email.
🤦 Whatsapp + Telegram
Last weekend WhatsApp cut our access to their API - both to Notis and our support account. As always with big tech, there was no appeal and no one to reach. After a long weekend we brought Notis back online on Telegram.
Today we bring Notis back to WhatsApp on a new number 🤫.
Which platform would you want to see next?
🔔 Notifications
You can now set recurring notifications (both to WhatsApp and Telegram). Even things like: "Remind me to stand up and dance for exactly 2 minutes every weekday at random intervals between 9 AM and 6 PM to break my routine.
🧠 Notis Tasks
Even more interestingly you can ask Notis to perform tasks for you at regular interval (like chatGPT tasks but on steroids). This is by far the most powerful feature we have shipped to Notis so here's a few example to give you an idea:
Send me a summary of all my tasks I completed during the week every Friday at 5 PM.
Send me a quote from my book database every morning at 9 PM.
Send me a daily gratitude exercice based on my last journal entries every day at 10.30 PM.
Save a new entry in my competitor research database every Monday at 9 AM with the updated price list of all my competitors. Use the last entry as a template.
I strongly encourage you to combine this with our next most powerful feature: the ability to give instructions to Notis directly in the description of your Notion database and fields.
I can't wait to hear what you'll build with this! Make sure to drop me a message.
🌐 Perplexity Deep Search
Just last week Perplexity announced deep search and we're bringing it to Notis. Just ask something along the line of "can you do a deep search on all platforms that support Telegram and Whatsapp for customer support and create a new document in my Notes" and Notis will go browse the web. Combined with your Notion knowledge and I believe it's a killer feature even though I still believe that OpenAI own implementation is unbeatable; hopefully they bring it to the API soon!
📄 Documents
You were many to request it, and we made it - you can now chat with any documents you upload directly in WhatsApp or Telegram. Just send or forward your document to Notis, and it will temporarily replace your Notion workspace as your main knowledge base until Notis detects you've moved to a new topic. Ever want to get back to it? Just reply to the document, and we will bring back its context (this now works with any message you sent too).
🗞️ In Other News
I posted a video on connecting Notis to my Rayban Meta (kind of regret the kind words after they cut our API access during the weekend now...) 😂
Ibr join the team. We're now two! As a Notion ambassador he knows the platform in and out and will start by helping me scale our affiliate network within the Notion community. 🎉
We got featured in TAAFT as the number one tool of January. So in a sense Notis is miss january... We also sponsored an issue of @superhuman_ai with mixed results (still my favourite AI newsletter though). 🥇
I posted this short video on the three levels of AI maturity when it comes to Notis. 📹
📰 AI News & team picks
Here's everything cool we saw happening this month:
🎤 wisprflow.ai gives you a shortcut to transform any speech to text on your computer. I tried many such apps, that's the best implementation because it's fast, adjust to my context, is not overly complicated and hopefully I can convince them to let me build a Notis extension.
📝 Notion release two great features: (1) Notion AI can now create databases for you and (2) you can add database views inside database entries (this guy explains it better than me)
⌨️ Raycast, my favourite Mac app, dropped AI extensions - a way to give Raycast extensions as AI tools. I think it has amazing potential even though it hasn't found it's place in my own workflow yet.
🤝 Granola, my favorite online meeting recorder, has released its Notion integration. You can now save all your meeting notes in Notion with a click, making them neatly available for Notis and Notion AI.
In about a month, we received three new frontier models (o3-mini, Claude 3.7, and GPT-4.5)! However, the real breakthroughs are occurring at the software engineering level, where agents like Notis are becoming smarter even with the existing models. For example, Cursor amazes me every day.
That's it for this month 😅
See you next month!
Flo
