Is this tied to Gmail because Notion is hoping to be acquired by Google (Workspace)?

(Notion + Workspace would be an incredibly strong offering for startups ... if it was all integrated/owned by the same company)

Longer-term I think Notion would benefit from going straight for the Google Workspace/O365 market and start offering email/calendar/etc end-to-end, rather than their current strategy of integration. The current strategy makes sense to start building up the suite, but: Google is feeling increasingly vulnerable, Notion itself is one of those rare products that has maintained general positive vibes among its customers for many years, and I think a lot of especially smaller companies would opt for just the notion suite if it checked the major boxes.

I've also always felt that Dropbox should have went down this road, after they released Paper in 2015, but I think their time has passed. Google also wasn't nearly as vulnerable back then; they still aren't super vulnerable now, but I think they're trending that way, and if Notion times it right they could be in a great position.

I feel like all SaaS are eventually building a variant of the same things, whether it's email client, CRM, analytics, or AI interface builder now. We end up working with dozens of SaaS with overlapping features that are ever so slightly different and solving just one use case.

Notion hiked their pricing recently (not great, but oh well) but someone there had the bright idea to slap a giant yellow banner at the top of every page reminding us that said price change will happen - in 2+ months. No way to remove the banner either, after contacting support it was gone and yesterday it came back.

Great when you share notion pages with clients during a video call and that pricing banner hangs around. We are looking to move off Notion now, not because of the banner, but it definitely contributed.

Can't believe they shut down https://skiff.com/mail for a Gmail client :( I was a happy user of Skiff before Notion bought them.

It feels like they're making the same mistakes Evernote did. Both had an awesome product with a rabid fanbase. Then they alienated those fans by adding a bunch of collaboration bloat and features that nobody really wanted.

Tried it out and has promise but for now it's not as polished. My fave email client right now is Mimestream: https://mimestream.com/

More like "Notion Mail (for Gmail only). Notion Calendar is Google only. Notion Mail is Google only. I guess I shouldn't have expected them to do anything based on standards like IMAP.

Is the interface in the screenshot how it actually looks? IMHO, really needs some more visual structure to the messages table.

I really do not want to see what a mail client with the UX of notion looks like.

If anyone uses Notion and really cannot stand their UX, I'd strongly recommend Whimsical: https://whimsical.com/ -- it can do a bit of Trello too.