Notion Mail is a minimalist but powerful take on email

Notion is launching the third app in its suite of work tools, an email app called Notion Mail. (The other two, of course, are Notion Calendar and Notion itself.) The app, available now for web and Mac and in testing for iOS, is the next step in Notion’s attempt to compete with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Notion wants to be the hub for all your work, and it knows that means getting email right. I’ve been testing Notion Mail for the last few days, and the app is roughly what I expected so far. It looks nice, trading Gmail’s countless menus and inscrutable buttons for a simple, text-first look. It’s very customizable, too: you can change what appears in your inbox and in what order, show more or less information with each message, toggle dark and light mode, and more. “We’re thinking about it from a Notion perspective,” says Jason Ginsberg, one of the leaders on the Notion Mail team. (Ginsberg and Andrew Milich founded a productivity tools company called Skiff, which was acqui ... Read full article.