Notion adds custom instructions to fix low-quality AI meeting notes
Notion just released a major update to its AI Meeting Notes feature. Users can finally use custom instructions to fix low-quality default summaries.
Default AI summaries often feel incredibly generic and superficial. Notion just rolled out a practical fix for this exact problem. The workspace platform introduced custom instructions for its native AI Meeting Notes feature. Users can now force the system to extract exactly what they need from every single call.
With this new addition, Notion keeps refining its AI features, after adding Custom Skills for turning prompts into reusable tools.
Key Takeaways:
- The quality problem: Standard AI outputs usually lack context and depth. The new update lets users dictate the exact structure of the final document.
- The custom templates: Teams can build specific prompts for different types of calls. Users can mandate sections for action items or demand strict one-sentence overviews.
- The automation setting: You do not have to rewrite the prompt every single time. Users can set their custom instructions to apply automatically to all future meetings.
- The user demand: This customization option was reportedly the top requested feature from the community. People clearly wanted better control over the final output.
- The workspace integration: The platform keeps all transcripts and notes directly inside your active projects. This native approach reduces the need for standalone transcription tools.
The Bottom Line: Nobody wants to read a superficial AI summary of an hour-long meeting. Notion gave users the exact controls they need to generate genuinely useful documentation. Hopefully, using custom instructions will result in better AI outputs in practice.
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