Productiveness firm Notion is shutting down its e-mail product, Notion Mail, on September 22. The corporate mentioned it’s discontinuing its e-mail inbox in favor of its AI agent providing. It famous that customers have been more and more handing over reins of their e-mail to the brokers, and never opening their inbox in any respect.
“As Notion brokers have gotten extra succesful, we’ve seen extra customers hand off e-mail workflows to them. In the present day, greater than half of Notion Mail customers handle emails with out ever opening their inbox. So, we’re going all in on utilizing brokers to run your inbox,” the corporate mentioned in a post on X.
Notion Mail is related with Gmail, that means all emails within the inbox will keep intact. Nonetheless, customers might want to export drafts and scheduled emails in the event that they wish to maintain them. The corporate mentioned that customers can export snippets and auto-label directions and use them elsewhere and emphasised that Notion’s email-based brokers will maintain working post-Notion Mail shutdown.
Notion introduced its email product in preview mode in 2024 after it acquired security-centric productiveness startup Skiff. The corporate aimed to combine e-mail with Notion AI with options like auto-labeling, filtering, and dealing with scheduling for customers. The corporate made the product accessible to customers in April 2025 to raised compete with the likes of Superhuman and Fyxer. Newer startups like AgentMail are consistent with Notion’s thesis and are attempting to construct an email service specifically for agents.
