Changelog & monthly updates
08.25
Hi there 👋,
It’s Flo here with our monthly update. I am soooooo excited by this one! Once you finished reading, join our new Slack community to share your thoughts and questions!
📞 WhatsApp Voice Calls (beta)
This was the second most requested feature for Notis, and it’s finally live: you can now call Notis on WhatsApp, just like any personal assistant — only this one won’t ever complain when you call on weekends! 😵
While Notis has so far been optimized for intelligence (as opposed to speed), some of you have complained since day one that it should be faster. My answer to this has always been that eventually I would release another modality optimized for speed. Here it is (finally)!
As always, I let my imagination run wild and came up with a bunch of funky use cases for you to try out and push their limits (make sure to keep me updated):
Interactive daily gratitude journal: Ask Notis to guide you through a daily gratitude practice and encourage you to dig deep. End the conversation by asking Notis to update your journal for you after you hang up.
Morning Prep: Set up an automation that runs daily and asks Notis to gather all the tasks late or in your inbox and text you when it’s ready. When you receive the Notis notification, call Notis and go over the tasks and plan when you’ll handle them. Ask Notis to update the entries after the call and to set up some reminders to check in on you during the week regarding your progress.
I hope this will get your juices flowing. I see a bright future for this, especially when I release calendar and email integration (imagine sorting your inbox over the phone every morning during your jog!). Learn more how to use it.
🔗 Webhooks Automations
If WhatsApp phone calls are the feature that I’m most excited about for the future of Notis, this is the one I have used the most lately!
The idea behind Webhooks Automations is simple and yet incredibly powerful and flexible: trigger a Notis automation from a simple webhook URL that can be called from any automation platform, including Notion. Whenever this URL is called, this instruction is run by Notis (as if you sent it as a message yourself), and whatever is passed along.
Here’s a concrete example:
As always with Notis, it gets even better when you mix and match all the features the platform has to offer! Here’s are some use-cases to get you started (some I already implemented myself):
Content repurposing: automatically create your social media posts for every new blog article or newsletter you produce.
Content creation: I have a database that I use to track my competitors. I can easily add a new entry by using the Notion clipboard or forwarding ads to Notis. I recently created a new webhook automation that runs every time a new entry is created in this database and writes a full blog post comparing it with Notis. Once I review it, it’s automatically posted on my blog and appears in the footer of our website.
Of course, it doesn’t only work with Notion automation but can be used to integrate any service to Notis via Zapier, n8n, Make, or Pipedream. The sky is the limit here, guys! This officially makes Notis the best automation platform for Notion!Here’s how to get you started with setting up Notis webhook automation on Notion. Let me hear from you; what will you build with this?
🗃️ Create and edit your Notion databases right from Notis
Many of you started using Notis because the Notion learning curve is infamous. It seemed counter intuitive to ask you to manage your own databases there. It’s now fixed.
Notis can now create and edit Notion databases in natural languages. No excuse for finally settings some custom instructions I keep baging about!
🐞 Other small improvements
Corrected a major bug in the timezone management and improved the reliability of notifications and reminders.
You can now set a custom prompt in your user settings (head to the portal) for those few use cases where instructions per database are just not enough…
Notis can now archive and restore documents for you.
🗞️ In Other News
Notis is growing fast 📈, it passed 2.4k in MRR, with over 50% monthly growth. You’re sending over 30k messages to Notis each week 🤯 .
I’m rewriting the entire agentic engine after OpenAI announced their plan to sunset the Assistant API Notis currently uses. The experience is hellish but I’m comforting myself that this will give Notis access to MCP integrations, providing a faster and more reliable experience.
I got busy recording some cool live streams: how I built the Notis help center using Notis, Notis vs. Notion MCP vs. Notion AI, and a bunch of Q&A with users, along with some cool demos of today’s new features. Check it out here!
@demetripanici and I continued our series that showcase the many use-cases for Notis: chat with documents, brain dumps, team task management, automation and blogging.
📰 AI News
Here’s everything cool we saw happening this month in AI:
🎙️ ChatGPT finds its voice (literally) – OpenAI rolled out a new gpt-realtime speech-to-speech model and beefed up its Realtime API for voice agents. In short, building a talking AI agent just got a whole lot easier – the future where chatting with your computer feels like a normal convo is speed-dialing closer. (openai.com)
🌐 Claude moves into your browser – Anthropic started piloting Claude for Chrome, a browser-based AI sidekick that can see and click around web pages on your behalf. They’re calling browser-savvy AI inevitable (since, let’s face it, we live in our browsers), but they’ve limited the rollout to 1,000 testers while they work out safety kinks. Why so cautious? Browsers are a minefield of hidden prompt-injection attacks – basically, sneaky websites could trick an AI agent. Anthropic is using this pilot to learn and beef up defenses so your future AI helper won’t go rogue clicking “Buy It Now” on scam sites. (anthropic.comanthropic.com)
🌍 DeepMind conjures a whole world (model) – The folks at Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 3, a groundbreaking world model AI that can generate entire interactive 3D environments from just a text prompt. Imagine training robots in a hyper-realistic virtual warehouse or going skiing in an AI-simulated mountain – and then dropping a herd of deer onto the slope just by asking for it. DeepMind calls world models like Genie a key stepping stone toward AGI (you know, the big goal). They demoed Genie 3’s mind-blowing simulations to journalists – full 720p worlds running at 24 fps – but aren’t releasing it publicly yet. Even so, it’s clear the line between videogame physics and AI training grounds is blurring fast. (deepmind.googledeepmind.google)
🤝 Meta mulls teaming up with rivals – In an unexpected twist, Meta’s AI brass are reportedly considering partnerships with Google and OpenAI to beef up AI features in Meta’s apps. Word is they’ve discussed plugging in Google’s Gemini model (or even OpenAI’s tech) to power Meta AI, their in-house assistant. Any such deal would be a temporary boost until Meta’s own next-gen model (hint: Llama 5?) can catch up to the competition. Meta even let employees use Anthropic’s model for coding help internally– a sign that Zuck’s team isn’t too proud to outsource some AI brains while they play the long game on homegrown models. (reuters.com)
😱 Sam Altman’s Oppenheimer moment – The OpenAI CEO gave a surprisingly candid interview where he admitted GPT-5’s abilities left him feeling “useless” and even made him ask “What have we done?”. Altman literally compared the creation of GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project, recalling how scientists realized the atomic bomb they built was a Pandora’s box. It’s not that GPT-5 is blowing up cities, but Sam’s point was clear: this AI is so powerful it freaked out its own creator. If the guy who helped build it is a bit spooked, you know the tech is getting real – fast. (youtube)
🔮 DeepMind’s chief predicts an AI revolution – In a recent interview, Google DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis painted an eye-opening picture of the near future. He believes AI’s impact will be “10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster,” ushering in an era of “incredible productivity” and “radical abundance,” no less. That said, Hassabis also urged caution: the Industrial Revolution had its dark sides, and this AI boom will bring major disruption along with the benefits. Translation: society’s about to change in a huge way – we just need to make sure it changes for the better. (theguardian.com)
That's it for this month. See you next month!
Flo
PS: Do you like what we do? Leave us a video testimonial. Any burning question? Drop in to my daily office hours or join the slack community!
08.25
Hi there 👋,
It’s Flo here with our monthly update. I am soooooo excited by this one! Once you finished reading, join our new Slack community to share your thoughts and questions!
📞 WhatsApp Voice Calls (beta)
This was the second most requested feature for Notis, and it’s finally live: you can now call Notis on WhatsApp, just like any personal assistant — only this one won’t ever complain when you call on weekends! 😵
While Notis has so far been optimized for intelligence (as opposed to speed), some of you have complained since day one that it should be faster. My answer to this has always been that eventually I would release another modality optimized for speed. Here it is (finally)!
As always, I let my imagination run wild and came up with a bunch of funky use cases for you to try out and push their limits (make sure to keep me updated):
Interactive daily gratitude journal: Ask Notis to guide you through a daily gratitude practice and encourage you to dig deep. End the conversation by asking Notis to update your journal for you after you hang up.
Morning Prep: Set up an automation that runs daily and asks Notis to gather all the tasks late or in your inbox and text you when it’s ready. When you receive the Notis notification, call Notis and go over the tasks and plan when you’ll handle them. Ask Notis to update the entries after the call and to set up some reminders to check in on you during the week regarding your progress.
I hope this will get your juices flowing. I see a bright future for this, especially when I release calendar and email integration (imagine sorting your inbox over the phone every morning during your jog!). Learn more how to use it.
🔗 Webhooks Automations
If WhatsApp phone calls are the feature that I’m most excited about for the future of Notis, this is the one I have used the most lately!
The idea behind Webhooks Automations is simple and yet incredibly powerful and flexible: trigger a Notis automation from a simple webhook URL that can be called from any automation platform, including Notion. Whenever this URL is called, this instruction is run by Notis (as if you sent it as a message yourself), and whatever is passed along.
Here’s a concrete example:
As always with Notis, it gets even better when you mix and match all the features the platform has to offer! Here’s are some use-cases to get you started (some I already implemented myself):
Content repurposing: automatically create your social media posts for every new blog article or newsletter you produce.
Content creation: I have a database that I use to track my competitors. I can easily add a new entry by using the Notion clipboard or forwarding ads to Notis. I recently created a new webhook automation that runs every time a new entry is created in this database and writes a full blog post comparing it with Notis. Once I review it, it’s automatically posted on my blog and appears in the footer of our website.
Of course, it doesn’t only work with Notion automation but can be used to integrate any service to Notis via Zapier, n8n, Make, or Pipedream. The sky is the limit here, guys! This officially makes Notis the best automation platform for Notion!Here’s how to get you started with setting up Notis webhook automation on Notion. Let me hear from you; what will you build with this?
🗃️ Create and edit your Notion databases right from Notis
Many of you started using Notis because the Notion learning curve is infamous. It seemed counter intuitive to ask you to manage your own databases there. It’s now fixed.
Notis can now create and edit Notion databases in natural languages. No excuse for finally settings some custom instructions I keep baging about!
🐞 Other small improvements
Corrected a major bug in the timezone management and improved the reliability of notifications and reminders.
You can now set a custom prompt in your user settings (head to the portal) for those few use cases where instructions per database are just not enough…
Notis can now archive and restore documents for you.
🗞️ In Other News
Notis is growing fast 📈, it passed 2.4k in MRR, with over 50% monthly growth. You’re sending over 30k messages to Notis each week 🤯 .
I’m rewriting the entire agentic engine after OpenAI announced their plan to sunset the Assistant API Notis currently uses. The experience is hellish but I’m comforting myself that this will give Notis access to MCP integrations, providing a faster and more reliable experience.
I got busy recording some cool live streams: how I built the Notis help center using Notis, Notis vs. Notion MCP vs. Notion AI, and a bunch of Q&A with users, along with some cool demos of today’s new features. Check it out here!
@demetripanici and I continued our series that showcase the many use-cases for Notis: chat with documents, brain dumps, team task management, automation and blogging.
📰 AI News
Here’s everything cool we saw happening this month in AI:
🎙️ ChatGPT finds its voice (literally) – OpenAI rolled out a new gpt-realtime speech-to-speech model and beefed up its Realtime API for voice agents. In short, building a talking AI agent just got a whole lot easier – the future where chatting with your computer feels like a normal convo is speed-dialing closer. (openai.com)
🌐 Claude moves into your browser – Anthropic started piloting Claude for Chrome, a browser-based AI sidekick that can see and click around web pages on your behalf. They’re calling browser-savvy AI inevitable (since, let’s face it, we live in our browsers), but they’ve limited the rollout to 1,000 testers while they work out safety kinks. Why so cautious? Browsers are a minefield of hidden prompt-injection attacks – basically, sneaky websites could trick an AI agent. Anthropic is using this pilot to learn and beef up defenses so your future AI helper won’t go rogue clicking “Buy It Now” on scam sites. (anthropic.comanthropic.com)
🌍 DeepMind conjures a whole world (model) – The folks at Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 3, a groundbreaking world model AI that can generate entire interactive 3D environments from just a text prompt. Imagine training robots in a hyper-realistic virtual warehouse or going skiing in an AI-simulated mountain – and then dropping a herd of deer onto the slope just by asking for it. DeepMind calls world models like Genie a key stepping stone toward AGI (you know, the big goal). They demoed Genie 3’s mind-blowing simulations to journalists – full 720p worlds running at 24 fps – but aren’t releasing it publicly yet. Even so, it’s clear the line between videogame physics and AI training grounds is blurring fast. (deepmind.googledeepmind.google)
🤝 Meta mulls teaming up with rivals – In an unexpected twist, Meta’s AI brass are reportedly considering partnerships with Google and OpenAI to beef up AI features in Meta’s apps. Word is they’ve discussed plugging in Google’s Gemini model (or even OpenAI’s tech) to power Meta AI, their in-house assistant. Any such deal would be a temporary boost until Meta’s own next-gen model (hint: Llama 5?) can catch up to the competition. Meta even let employees use Anthropic’s model for coding help internally– a sign that Zuck’s team isn’t too proud to outsource some AI brains while they play the long game on homegrown models. (reuters.com)
😱 Sam Altman’s Oppenheimer moment – The OpenAI CEO gave a surprisingly candid interview where he admitted GPT-5’s abilities left him feeling “useless” and even made him ask “What have we done?”. Altman literally compared the creation of GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project, recalling how scientists realized the atomic bomb they built was a Pandora’s box. It’s not that GPT-5 is blowing up cities, but Sam’s point was clear: this AI is so powerful it freaked out its own creator. If the guy who helped build it is a bit spooked, you know the tech is getting real – fast. (youtube)
🔮 DeepMind’s chief predicts an AI revolution – In a recent interview, Google DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis painted an eye-opening picture of the near future. He believes AI’s impact will be “10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster,” ushering in an era of “incredible productivity” and “radical abundance,” no less. That said, Hassabis also urged caution: the Industrial Revolution had its dark sides, and this AI boom will bring major disruption along with the benefits. Translation: society’s about to change in a huge way – we just need to make sure it changes for the better. (theguardian.com)
That's it for this month. See you next month!
Flo
PS: Do you like what we do? Leave us a video testimonial. Any burning question? Drop in to my daily office hours or join the slack community!
08.25
Hi there 👋,
It’s Flo here with our monthly update. I am soooooo excited by this one! Once you finished reading, join our new Slack community to share your thoughts and questions!
📞 WhatsApp Voice Calls (beta)
This was the second most requested feature for Notis, and it’s finally live: you can now call Notis on WhatsApp, just like any personal assistant — only this one won’t ever complain when you call on weekends! 😵
While Notis has so far been optimized for intelligence (as opposed to speed), some of you have complained since day one that it should be faster. My answer to this has always been that eventually I would release another modality optimized for speed. Here it is (finally)!
As always, I let my imagination run wild and came up with a bunch of funky use cases for you to try out and push their limits (make sure to keep me updated):
Interactive daily gratitude journal: Ask Notis to guide you through a daily gratitude practice and encourage you to dig deep. End the conversation by asking Notis to update your journal for you after you hang up.
Morning Prep: Set up an automation that runs daily and asks Notis to gather all the tasks late or in your inbox and text you when it’s ready. When you receive the Notis notification, call Notis and go over the tasks and plan when you’ll handle them. Ask Notis to update the entries after the call and to set up some reminders to check in on you during the week regarding your progress.
I hope this will get your juices flowing. I see a bright future for this, especially when I release calendar and email integration (imagine sorting your inbox over the phone every morning during your jog!). Learn more how to use it.
🔗 Webhooks Automations
If WhatsApp phone calls are the feature that I’m most excited about for the future of Notis, this is the one I have used the most lately!
The idea behind Webhooks Automations is simple and yet incredibly powerful and flexible: trigger a Notis automation from a simple webhook URL that can be called from any automation platform, including Notion. Whenever this URL is called, this instruction is run by Notis (as if you sent it as a message yourself), and whatever is passed along.
Here’s a concrete example:
As always with Notis, it gets even better when you mix and match all the features the platform has to offer! Here’s are some use-cases to get you started (some I already implemented myself):
Content repurposing: automatically create your social media posts for every new blog article or newsletter you produce.
Content creation: I have a database that I use to track my competitors. I can easily add a new entry by using the Notion clipboard or forwarding ads to Notis. I recently created a new webhook automation that runs every time a new entry is created in this database and writes a full blog post comparing it with Notis. Once I review it, it’s automatically posted on my blog and appears in the footer of our website.
Of course, it doesn’t only work with Notion automation but can be used to integrate any service to Notis via Zapier, n8n, Make, or Pipedream. The sky is the limit here, guys! This officially makes Notis the best automation platform for Notion!Here’s how to get you started with setting up Notis webhook automation on Notion. Let me hear from you; what will you build with this?
🗃️ Create and edit your Notion databases right from Notis
Many of you started using Notis because the Notion learning curve is infamous. It seemed counter intuitive to ask you to manage your own databases there. It’s now fixed.
Notis can now create and edit Notion databases in natural languages. No excuse for finally settings some custom instructions I keep baging about!
🐞 Other small improvements
Corrected a major bug in the timezone management and improved the reliability of notifications and reminders.
You can now set a custom prompt in your user settings (head to the portal) for those few use cases where instructions per database are just not enough…
Notis can now archive and restore documents for you.
🗞️ In Other News
Notis is growing fast 📈, it passed 2.4k in MRR, with over 50% monthly growth. You’re sending over 30k messages to Notis each week 🤯 .
I’m rewriting the entire agentic engine after OpenAI announced their plan to sunset the Assistant API Notis currently uses. The experience is hellish but I’m comforting myself that this will give Notis access to MCP integrations, providing a faster and more reliable experience.
I got busy recording some cool live streams: how I built the Notis help center using Notis, Notis vs. Notion MCP vs. Notion AI, and a bunch of Q&A with users, along with some cool demos of today’s new features. Check it out here!
@demetripanici and I continued our series that showcase the many use-cases for Notis: chat with documents, brain dumps, team task management, automation and blogging.
📰 AI News
Here’s everything cool we saw happening this month in AI:
🎙️ ChatGPT finds its voice (literally) – OpenAI rolled out a new gpt-realtime speech-to-speech model and beefed up its Realtime API for voice agents. In short, building a talking AI agent just got a whole lot easier – the future where chatting with your computer feels like a normal convo is speed-dialing closer. (openai.com)
🌐 Claude moves into your browser – Anthropic started piloting Claude for Chrome, a browser-based AI sidekick that can see and click around web pages on your behalf. They’re calling browser-savvy AI inevitable (since, let’s face it, we live in our browsers), but they’ve limited the rollout to 1,000 testers while they work out safety kinks. Why so cautious? Browsers are a minefield of hidden prompt-injection attacks – basically, sneaky websites could trick an AI agent. Anthropic is using this pilot to learn and beef up defenses so your future AI helper won’t go rogue clicking “Buy It Now” on scam sites. (anthropic.comanthropic.com)
🌍 DeepMind conjures a whole world (model) – The folks at Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 3, a groundbreaking world model AI that can generate entire interactive 3D environments from just a text prompt. Imagine training robots in a hyper-realistic virtual warehouse or going skiing in an AI-simulated mountain – and then dropping a herd of deer onto the slope just by asking for it. DeepMind calls world models like Genie a key stepping stone toward AGI (you know, the big goal). They demoed Genie 3’s mind-blowing simulations to journalists – full 720p worlds running at 24 fps – but aren’t releasing it publicly yet. Even so, it’s clear the line between videogame physics and AI training grounds is blurring fast. (deepmind.googledeepmind.google)
🤝 Meta mulls teaming up with rivals – In an unexpected twist, Meta’s AI brass are reportedly considering partnerships with Google and OpenAI to beef up AI features in Meta’s apps. Word is they’ve discussed plugging in Google’s Gemini model (or even OpenAI’s tech) to power Meta AI, their in-house assistant. Any such deal would be a temporary boost until Meta’s own next-gen model (hint: Llama 5?) can catch up to the competition. Meta even let employees use Anthropic’s model for coding help internally– a sign that Zuck’s team isn’t too proud to outsource some AI brains while they play the long game on homegrown models. (reuters.com)
😱 Sam Altman’s Oppenheimer moment – The OpenAI CEO gave a surprisingly candid interview where he admitted GPT-5’s abilities left him feeling “useless” and even made him ask “What have we done?”. Altman literally compared the creation of GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project, recalling how scientists realized the atomic bomb they built was a Pandora’s box. It’s not that GPT-5 is blowing up cities, but Sam’s point was clear: this AI is so powerful it freaked out its own creator. If the guy who helped build it is a bit spooked, you know the tech is getting real – fast. (youtube)
🔮 DeepMind’s chief predicts an AI revolution – In a recent interview, Google DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis painted an eye-opening picture of the near future. He believes AI’s impact will be “10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster,” ushering in an era of “incredible productivity” and “radical abundance,” no less. That said, Hassabis also urged caution: the Industrial Revolution had its dark sides, and this AI boom will bring major disruption along with the benefits. Translation: society’s about to change in a huge way – we just need to make sure it changes for the better. (theguardian.com)
That's it for this month. See you next month!
Flo
PS: Do you like what we do? Leave us a video testimonial. Any burning question? Drop in to my daily office hours or join the slack community!
