Ladies & Gents... Notion 3.0 🤯

Hey — it’s James

Last week marked the second edition of Make With Notion, Notion's annual conference. Amazing developments were unveiled, and 3-2-1: Notion! is here to cover it all just for you. So buckle up, and let's dive into the announcements 😎

In Today’s Email 👀 

• Agents

• Row permissions

• Map

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3 Tips / Updates

1/ A G E N T S

The star of the show was—and you could have guess it from the direction Notion took with AI—agents!

But first, what’s an agent?

Notion announced two types of AI agents:

1/ Personal Agent — available now

Your personalized teammate in Notion. Whatever you can do in Notion, your Personal Agent can also do — using your workspace context and connected apps. It learns your style and ways of working. You can even name it and dress it up with accessories ↓

2/ Custom agents — alpha, early access

Spin up a small team of specialized agents. Hand them the repetitive stuff. They work while you sleep. More to come soon!

To summarize:

• Custom agents = great for specialized, repeatable tasks on auto‑pilot. For example: daily content curation, lead triage, QA checks before publish.

• Personal agent = great all‑rounder for day‑to‑day work. For example: draft docs in your voice, summarize meetings, update databases, prep a project brief from scattered notes.

Notes:

• Agents work across Notion, Notion Calendar, Notion Mail, and MCP.

• Your Agent has the same permissions you do — if you can’t view or edit it, neither can your Agent.

• You can always undo any changes made by your Personal Agent.

2/ Database row permissions

While agents were the star of the general show, the star of MY show was… database row permissions! Why? Because it's the #2 most requested feature of all time, after offline mode. Personally, it was even #1 for me as it prevented so many potential clients from switching to Notion.

What does it do? Well, we’re now able to grant permissions by database row. The person assigned to those database pages won’t be able to see the rest of the database.

Why this matters

• Share a single record without exposing the whole database.

• Less duplication. No more cluncky/unsafe workarounds.

Example — client tasks (before → now)

• Before: Sharing Client A’s tasks meant exposing B, C, D — so teams spun up separate client databases as a workaround.

• Now: Keep one master Tasks database and share only Client A’s task pages. Client A sees just what’s shared, nothing else.

This is huge, especially for companies like agencies who want to create client portals for all their clients but keep everything centralized in their backend.

How to use it?

1. Go to your database → click Share

2. Page-level access → Add a new rule

3. Select wanted person property → grant access

Worth to note that this feature is only available on the Business or Enterprise Plan.

3/ M A P S

Last but not least, a new view type has finally been shipped: maps! It comes with a related Place property, which lets you type an address (you can also type the name of a restaurant, or anything that shows up on Google Maps).

It also works with database conditional colors, as you can see in my map above ↑

Highly requested feature, finally shipped 💪

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