August Bradley

Notion didn't just ship a developer platform last week. The workspace itself has started to wake up. Behind the screen, something has begun to look back. Workers. Custom agents. Syncs. Webhooks. An MCP server. A CLI. A new SDK for embedding Notion Agents inside any app. External agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, operating as native collaborators inside your workspace. If you just see that as infrastructure, you miss what's happening: the workspace is growing both a cortex and an autonomic nervous system, the part that keeps a body running while the mind thinks. What @NotionHQ & @NotionDevs shipped is more interesting than any single feature. It's a shift in what the software is allowed to be. It's also a brave. The platform playbook of the last two decades was to wall the garden: proprietary formats, painful exports, hostile APIs designed to make leaving expensive. Notion is shipping the opposite — open protocols, rival agents treated as first-class collaborators, data moving freely in and out. They're betting porousness is its own kind of moat. A counterintuitive call at a moment when many platforms are tightening their grip. For half a century, the deal between humans and computers has been command-and-response. You give instructions. The machine executes. The dream of the computer as a partner (one that runs alongside you, knows you, anticipates, acts) has lived in science fiction. Jarvis. KITT. TARS. Samantha. R2-D2. This week, that vision took shape in Notion. The eyes just opened, and we can now feel a pulse. The workspace now has an autonomic layer running underneath it: Workers humming in the background, Syncs keeping the world fresh inside your pages with live data from Gmail, Google Calendar, Stripe, your Whoop or Oura, anything with an API — and Webhooks listening for events you didn't even know happened. On top of that, a thinking layer: agents that can read the graph, reason over it, hold multi-turn threads, reach into other systems, and act on your behalf. The whole thing is starting to behave like an organism with a working interior. A workspace that breathes. That notices. That can be asked, and answer. That can do. What just shipped is a new kind of workspace, one where work doesn't just get documented, it gets done — along a spectrum from with you to without you. The sci‑fi future is booting up.

@kepano Great insight.

mature things tend to get pressured into being less weird over time, so if you're starting from scratch your advantage is that you can be very weird if you don't start weird you're probably trying to compete inside the local maximum of something more boring than you could be

@ivanhzhao AI is amazing for building these dashboards, then tweaking and optimizing them. This feature is far better combined with AI 💪

Warning: This is not an AI feature.

@ivanhzhao @NotionHQ Yes please.

LMK if you want early access (and can provide ample feedback in exchange)

@temnco @khemaridh is writing a great AI newsletter covering this stuff.

Do y'all follow any "AI creators" who recap news and teach how to take advantage of the new stuff? If so, drop em links! Asking for a friend 👀

@jake_pahor @EXM7777 What's your take on using Notion vs markdown files on your computer (a la Obsidian) for personal use? Not for teams.

Instead of spending $20K on a Mac Mini + OpenClaw setup, try this: Fork out $30/month for Claude Pro and actually learn to use it properly. Exactly what @EXM7777 is saying here. Build the foundation first. I've been maxing out Claude Pro every day for the last few weeks. Using it as the brain, with Notion as the memory and database. Claude does the thinking, Notion stores everything and keeps it organised. Together they've become my project and content engine. The gap between free and paid models is massive. Opus 4.6 is a different beast. $30/month is nothing for what you get back. My tips after a few weeks of pushing it daily: • Don't be tight and use the free versions. You're leaving 80% of the capability on the table. • Spend an hour a day on complex tasks. Not rewriting emails. Strategy, analysis, content systems, research. You'll be surprised. • Once you've built that foundation, then start looking at agents and automation. Not before. The people who learn to use these tools properly now will have an insane edge in 2-3 years. What's your best AI use case? Drop it in the replies.

@akothari Big day 🚀

No thrill better than launch day. I fucking love it.

@ArmanHezarkhani @NotionHQ It looks like that's happening, based on this post and Notion's reply to it underneath... x.com/testingcatalog…

@AugustBradley @NotionHQ I agree -- I personally think they should just use Claude Code's SDK within Notion. That way you could just have Claude Code right in Notion. That'd kill!

I've used every AI note taker @NotionHQ is EASILY the best But the notetaker is useless if you don't have a system around it Here's mine

@ArmanHezarkhani @NotionHQ Fair enough! If Notion's internal AI isn't good enough yet, I believe it will be soon.

@AugustBradley @NotionHQ Yeah but Claude Code's agent loop is just sooooo good

The Oura ring is good for experiments. In the beginning it gives you a sense of your baseline. Then as you try different diet/ behavior/lifestyle changes, it can show how they reflect in your sleep quality. Unfortunately with the Oura ring, you have to keep track of the tests by yourself. Whoop is better for this. With Whoop, you efficiently enter daily behavior entries and it will track correlation across the various variables you are interested in testing. And Whoop is excellent for tracking daytime activity + fitness, so you get all the sleep and daily activity in one. Wear it on your bicep for better data tracking. It hides it from your wrist. Also by wearing a Whoop, you can drop the Apple Watch and wear a proper watch. Double win.

If you’ve both worn an Oura ring and an Apple Watch for 6+ months… How do you use your Oura? I liked the sleep tracking, but I sorta get it now. My scores every day basically just reinforce how I naturally feel and I know what patterns to lean into and which to avoid. I can’t really wear it to lift, and the Apple Watch does a better job of fitness tracking anyway. The Oura returns seem very diminishing.

@jonnym1ller Such a great concept! These are so cool.

feedback on this so far has been 💯

@NickMilo One password is really well positioned for the Agentic movement. I've been thinking about how they're going to enable agentic team members as well with their own access permissions to the 1P Vaults.

Excellent article. I'm already on 1Password. I'm very interested what they do next.

@NickMilo @TomFrankly Agreed. I’ve communicated this to them.

@AugustBradley @TomFrankly Not sure Circle is appealing to with that model, but there must be a big contingent

Damn, Vimeo was bought out?! By the same company that bought out Evernote? And they laid off almost everybody, again?! We use Vimeo to host videos. What should we use to host videos instead?

@NickMilo That was my first thought when I heard about Vimeo being bought by Bending Spoons. They destroy everything they buy. It’s acquisition to milk it, not to develop or build it.

We know Bending Spoons is going to dramatically increase Vimeo prices in the next 6-12 months. We are looking at Bunny Stream as an alternative..

@NickMilo @TomFrankly Video hosting on Circle for any screen shares is unusable. No 4k, stuck in 2010 resolution standard, and the pricing is absurdly high — plus the charge you for all the various alternate stream resolutions for each video upload.

@TomFrankly Last we checked, they had a cap on storage and the costs significantly outpaced other options. Also, for live sessions, I don't think their functionality is robust enough, like Zoom, for our needs (everyone able to be on camera, screen shares, polls, etc).

Well done, Charles! Great to hear of your PPV implementation. Alin, Notion is certainly the best platform for a full life system, but it does require a thoughtful system design and Notion buildout. Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults (PPV) is the Notion system that started the whole Life OS movement, it’s been updated and refined for 6+ years with tens of thousands of users. This is the latest version: youtu.be/oPyeiiJyGA8

@AlinDragu When I started using Notion, it’s so overwhelming that I had to lean on someone’s system Used @AugustBradley ‘s PPV Notion system in YouTube & I use it for everything you mentioned here.

What's the best Notion Second Brain OS? My Notion is a mess. I want to organize: • YouTube Videos • Tweets • Business To-Do's • Consumption Database (Books, Courses, etc) • Budget • Personal Life To-Do's I have all of that in there but it's everywhere. Ideas? Tips?

@will_mannon This is incredible, Will! Awesome story. Super interesting to see you in action. Impressed with your dedication.

China has 1.4 billion people and over a million foreigners. But fewer than 20 foreigners do standup comedy in Mandarin. I'm one of them. A short film about my 100th show...in Chinese.

@p_millerd What a stunning book design! Really well done, Paul.

Unboxing of My New Premium Hardcover 18 Months of Production and Printing Printed in 🇮🇹 Shipped to 🇺🇸 Unboxed in 🇹🇼 youtube.com/watch?v=XPaOpG…

I just recorded a new walkthrough of the extensively updated PPV Pro system — the Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults Life OS in Notion. This is the first new PPV demo in 4 years 🗓️ So much has changed in how I massively leverage @NotionHQ to enhance my life and those of our members.