Notion just released powerful Custom Agents. But most ops teams will miss out due to the blank page problem. Here’s how to fix it.
Custom Agents take Notion’s AI and give it tools and triggers. It’s powerful because what are we humans but a brain + tools? Notion have given us a way to make AI workers.
The possibilities are the problem. You can trigger your agent on Slack, access your CRM, send an email, document a bug, book a meeting, write cat poetry…. Endless possibilities.
And that’s Notion’s blank page problem. Users sign up, are greeted with a blank page, don’t know what to write, and give up.
Creativity needs constraints. Here’s yours: Focus on the problem.
Notion Custom Agents are good at plenty of problems, so start with a quick win. Getting tasks into a database from Slack.
I’ve got dozens of databases: tasks, projects, decisions, issues. Getting a new item into the right one means opening Notion, finding it, and fiddling with the fields. A minute of faff, which when busy, is enough friction to break your flow.
Let’s fix that in <10 minutes.
I’ve recorded myself building this agent step by step. Follow along and you will get two things:
1️⃣ A handy agent that adds tasks to Notion from Slack
2️⃣ The skill of building agents
And once you have a hammer agent, everything starts to look like a nail automation. Making the next build much easier.
Still stuck? You can always hire Turing Works to do it for you 😊
