Notion buttons can now run your AI

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Notion now lets a single button kick off an AI workflow, and the rest of this week’s updates are the small, practical kind: see who edited a block, and long pages that load faster.

There’s also a look at what the community still wants Notion to fix, the new Auto router, and a short official walkthrough on building skills.

One reminder: existing Business and Enterprise workspaces switch to the new credit system on Nov 2.

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In Today's Email 👀

• Select any block to see who edited it last, teammate or bot

• Long Notion pages now load as you scroll, and feel faster

• Buttons can now trigger an AI workflow in one click

• Notion’s upgraded Auto model router, and why people are pushing back

3 Tips / Updates

1/ BUTTONS CAN NOW TRIGGER AN AI WORKFLOW

Notion buttons have a new step: send message to agent. Add a button to a page or a database property, pick Notion AI or one of your custom agents, write the prompt, and a click opens the chat and runs it. You can reference the current page, mention skills with @, and pass in values from earlier button steps.

The point is less the feature than where it puts AI. Most teams have more skills and agents than anyone can remember. A button puts the right one where the work happens: “process this meeting” on a meetings database, “draft a follow up” on a CRM row. Power users set it up once, and everyone else just clicks.

It also keeps a human in the loop. Not every flow should run in the background. Turning meeting notes into tasks is better when you can step in and say “that one doesn’t need to go on the list.”

For now, buttons run on Auto with no way to pick a model, and skills only work through @ mentions, not slash commands.

2/ SELECT ANY BLOCK TO SEE WHO EDITED IT LAST

Notion added a small feature that’s more useful than it sounds: select any block and it shows who edited it last, whether that was a teammate or a bot.

When agents edit pages alongside people, a quick “who touched this?” is no longer about blame, it’s about trust. Say a pricing table changes, a paragraph gets rewritten, or a status quietly flips: you can now tell whether it was a person or an agent before you start digging through page history.

It’s still early. Connected tools show up by name, like Cursor, but people want it to clearly call out every agent edit. The other ask is a direct jump from that label to the before and after, so you can check and undo the change without searching the whole history.

Small, but a handy habit for any page agents can write to.

3/ LONG NOTION PAGES JUST GOT FASTER

Notion now renders a page as you scroll instead of loading every block at once. Before, a long page meant the whole thing was drawn immediately, which could slow the app down and use a lot of memory.

Now only what’s near your screen is rendered, and the rest waits its turn.

For anyone with long docs, meeting notes, or giant wikis, it should feel snappier. The demo was an entire novel on one page.

Search still works as before. The content is still loaded behind the scenes, just not drawn on screen, so you can search for a sentence and jump to it like normal.

After years of complaints about slow pages, it’s good to see speed work getting attention. It’s another sign that performance is a priority.

From The Community

The most telling wishes aren’t flashy new features.

They’re the basics people expected to already exist. The mobile calendar still shows a gray dot per day, with no event details and no way to see an event that spans several days. Events can’t be color coded, and tasks with repeating deadlines mean duplicating them or building formulas that only show one date at a time.

The bigger one is backup and restore. Exports work for small workspaces, but a large one, 25GB or more, can’t be fully exported, and there’s no real way to restore it. It’s the kind of feature larger teams lean on most, so it comes up a lot.

Offline mode, iPad split view, and a lock for formulas also came up, and none of it is big on its own. Together it sounds like people asking Notion to finish the foundations.

Quick Links & Tools

Notion’s upgraded Auto model router: Notion says Auto picks the right model for each task and switches course if it gets stuck, at 90% lower cost than frontier models. Reaction has been rough, with users asking to see which model answered and to keep picking their own.

Notion’s walkthrough on creating and sharing skills: A short official video on building a skill from scratch, running it in Notion Agent or a Custom Agent, and sharing it through a team skills database. Worth a watch if skills have been on your list.