Overview of Notion AI and Coda AI as of April 2024
The race to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) in software tools has been particularly prominent in the past 2 years. Notion and Coda have been developing their native AI features with consistency over time. The features offered by their AI tools evolve a lot in short timeframes.
This video breaks down some key AI-based features in Notion databases and Coda tables as of April 2024 to provide an overview of the state of AI within those software tools. In a highly variable and novel environment that is artificial intelligence in software tools, this video and written summary aim to cut through the noise and provide a short and useful overview of the available AI features.
Notion AI Properties
These are properties (columns) in a Notion database, filled out automatically by Notion AI using an out-of-the-box option (e.g., AI summary), or a custom prompt written by you.
AI Summary: Automatically summarizes content within a database page, ideal for quick reviews of meeting notes or extensive data.
AI Translation and AI Keywords: Facilitates multilingual database management and keyword generation from content.
AI Custom Autofill: Allows users to create a custom AI prompt to fill out a property in the database automatically.
Coda AI columns
Similar to Notion AI properties, Coda AI columns provide a way to use AI to fill out columns based on relevant context from the table or any variable within the Coda doc. That is a powerful feature of Coda AI columns—you can reference any column value or variable within your Coda doc as part of the AI prompt. In addition, Coda AI columns can be of any data type available in Coda (including relations).
Summarize: Automatically summarize content from the table or any specific combination of variables you select
Find action items: Outputs action items from the row of reference or any variable included in the prompt
Find key insights: Provides key points of value from the row of reference or any variable included in the prompt
Custom prompt: Allows users to write their prompt
AI Chatbots
Besides AI in a database, you can also use Notion AI and Coda AI on pages and within a native chatbot experience. Below are two videos exploring the capabilities of each chatbot (Notion AI Q&A and Coda AI). They were recorded some months ago, which makes them seem obsolete to some degree. The principles and foundations behind how the two AIs work remain relevant.
Coda AI overview
Notion AI Q&A
