Notion Mail is out - Hacker News

Posted by jasperr1 4/15/2025

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elorm 4/15/2025|

I'm really disappointed that Notion acquired and killed a far better product (Skiff) just to release what is essentially an overdressed Gmail client.

There's no decent selling point over other competitors in the industry and Notion just missed the chance to tie customers into a alternative workspace suite.

apercu 4/15/2025||

Notion search doesn’t work consistently or effectively in their flagship product.

haliskerbas 4/15/2025||

fyi ``` Access blocked: Notion Mail is not approved by Advanced Protection ```

LER0ever 4/15/2025||

Right now they have a weird limitation that the Gmail address has to match the Notion account, otherwise you would get an error saying “the selected Gmail does not match your Notion address”.

andrecarini 4/15/2025||

Notion has been great for me since I started using it back in 2021. Hope they get all the success they deserve.

That being said, I'm honestly disappointed with their overall direction. The main product has not improved much since 2021, except for features I assume are catering to their big enterprise customers.

It's slow, the mobile app has bad UX, the Windows app is a memory hog and I run into issues whenever I build something more complex with it. It's still a great product, but as time passes I look more into alternatives...

itomato 4/16/2025||

And what does my exported data look like?

A PDF?

mupuff1234 4/15/2025||

Is the company profitable?

schnable 4/15/2025|

Like many AI-driven products, the marquee use case they show is useless. "Job offers that require my signature"?? I am going to have one of these in the air at one time and will not be too busy to keep track the relevant emails! Indicates to me that product is a solution in search of a problem.

Similarly, the first Humane AI Pin hype video showed a guy on a train asking his pin to tell him about prices of vintage photos of a solar eclipse.

Jeremy1026 4/15/2025||

I also like that the first screenshot on the page shows an email from "Finance Dept" with the subject "Expense report status" as a "Cold email". That example almost definitely has some back story to it, thus not making it a cold email.

chuckadams 4/15/2025||

That or it’s spear phishing.

tobr 4/15/2025|||

Wow, that is a bizarre example? So bizarre I feel like I must be misunderstanding it. When does someone have multiple job offers in their inbox awaiting a signature? And it’s something you’re searching for as if you have to go through your weekly slog of signing job offers? Someone tell me what I’m misunderstanding.

sorcerer-mar 4/15/2025||

I believe it's from the vantage of a hypothetical hiring manager.

tobr 4/15/2025|||

That actually makes a lot of sense. What little you see of the emails they look completely different though - if ”I” sent them, you’d think they would be more similar.

schnable 4/15/2025||||

and they get only 3 results?

bathtub365 4/15/2025|||

Seems a little tone deaf for the current economy at the very least.

hightrix 4/15/2025|||

Couldn't agree more.

Regarding the job offer example. I'll have 1 to sign every 2-5 years, I should be able to manage that myself.

That said, I'd love a better email client that wasn't feeding an advertising company. I'm planning to spend some time with this to see if it fits any of my needs.

Edit: Oh, this is just a gmail wrapper/addon. Nevermind, moving along.

footy 4/15/2025||

maybe this isn't what you're looking for since it is paid, but I am very happy with fastmail

edit: just realized I skipped a word while reading and you said client. I know some people use it to manage all email (including from gmail accounts) but that's not actually my use case.

m4tthumphrey 4/15/2025|||

100%, it is just a buzzword right now with so many companies trying to get in on the "action" without actually providing anything useful.

shauntest12321 4/15/2025||

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