Notion

Connect Notion to give your assistant access to your pages, databases, and content.

What’s included

With Notion connected, your assistant can:

Search pages and databases — Find content across your workspace
Query databases — Filter and retrieve entries from any shared database
Read page content — Access full page text and properties
Create pages — Add new pages to your workspace
Add database entries — Create new rows in your databases
Update content — Modify pages, database entries, and add blocks

Connecting Notion

Go to Integrations
Find Notion and click Connect
Authorize Town in Notion
Select which pages and databases to share
Return to Town

Notion uses page-level access. You choose exactly which pages and databases Town can access during authorization. Only shared content is visible to your assistant.

What your assistant can do

Capability	What it does	Makes changes?
Search	Find pages and databases across shared content	No
Query database	Filter and retrieve database entries	No
Get page	Read full page content and properties	No
Create page	Add a new page to your workspace	Yes
Create database entry	Add a new row to a database	Yes
Update page	Modify page content or properties	Yes
Update database entry	Edit a database row	Yes
Add content	Append blocks to a page	Yes
Edit blocks	Modify existing content blocks	Yes

Use cases

Save emails to Notion

Capture important emails in your workspace:

Forward emails to your assistant
Create Notion pages with the email content
Add to a “Saved Emails” or “Notes” database

Meeting notes

Prepare for meetings using your Notion knowledge base:

Before meetings, search Notion for relevant docs
Include links and context in your morning briefing
Create follow-up pages after meetings

Task tracking

Sync tasks between email and Notion:

Create database entries from action items in emails
Track tasks in Notion databases
Query task status across projects

Example workflow

A workflow that saves forwarded emails to Notion:


When I forward an email with "save:" in the subject:
1. Extract the title from after "save:"
2. Use the email body as page content
3. Create a page in my "Saved Emails" database
4. Add properties: sender, date, original subject
5. Reply with a link to the Notion page

Adding more pages later

To grant access to additional pages or databases:

Go to Integrations
Click Manage on the Notion integration
Update your page selections

Best practices

Share specific pages. Only share the pages and databases your workflows need. This keeps things focused and secure.

Use approval-required for changes. Creating and modifying pages affects your Notion workspace. Review before making changes.

Match your database structure. When adding entries, make sure your workflow provides the right types of information for each column in your database.

Troubleshooting

Can’t find pages

Check that the page is shared with Town in Notion
Verify the page title matches your search
Try reconnecting and re-selecting pages

Database entry fails

Ensure all required columns have values
Check that the data types match (text, number, date, etc.)
Verify you have edit access to the database

Search returns nothing

Notion search only includes content you’ve shared with Town
Try broader search terms
Make sure the content exists in your shared pages