# What is Notion? > Notion is a workspace for docs, wikis and databases, with Notion AI and AI Meeting Notes built in. What it does, the free plan and a worked example. Source: https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/notion · Updated 2026-10-20 · Free from Stepthrough (https://learn.ynteractive.com) [Web apps](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary#topic-web-apps) · [AI glossary](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary) Quick answer Notion (notion.com) is a workspace where a team keeps its docs, wikis, projects and task lists in one place. Pages hold text and other blocks, and databases hold rows of items, each one its own page. Notion AI is built in, and AI Meeting Notes can transcribe a meeting and pull out the key points and action items. Last updated October 20, 2026 [Take the free module →](https://learn.ynteractive.com/courses/ai-apps-worth-knowing/17)Module 17 of the free [AI Apps Worth Knowing](https://learn.ynteractive.com/courses/ai-apps-worth-knowing) course, about 8 minutes. No account needed. Updated October 20, 2026 · By [Robert Breen](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/about) ## Why it matters for a small business Notes and handouts get lost when they live in email threads and private folders. Notion gives them a home everyone can search: a page for each process, and a database for the work that comes out of it, so a new hire can find last month's training and see who owns what. A Notion database is more than a table. Notion's help center says every item in a database is a page of its own, and you can show the same data as a board, calendar, list, gallery or timeline, each view with its own filters and sorts. You add one with **/database**, and you can ask Notion AI to change it for you. For meetings, Notion's help center says AI Meeting Notes is started by typing **/meet** on a page in the desktop app, transcribes after you click **Start transcribing**, and writes a summary when you click **Stop**. It is on the Business and Enterprise plans. ## In a real lesson: CoHear: AI Meeting Notes from a Team Training Session The [CoHear lesson](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/cohear-ai-meeting-notes-training-session) does not use Notion. In it, Priya Nair at Hollis & Grant Property Management, a made-up firm, records a 28-minute maintenance request training on her phone with CoHear. She confirms the keywords, reads **What changes** and **Decisions**, checks one rule against the transcript, turns the notes into an **Infographic** handout and shares it behind a password. Notion does the part that comes after: keeping it. The handout and the decisions would go on a "Maintenance requests" page in the team wiki, and each action item would become a row in a Notion database with owner, due date and status properties. A board view grouped by status shows the team what is still open, and the one task CoHear marked **Not stated** gets its date there. [Try this lesson free](https://learn.ynteractive.com/modules/cohear-meeting-notes) or [read the step-by-step guide](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/cohear-ai-meeting-notes-training-session). ## Common confusions ### Notion vs an AI note-taker An [AI note-taker](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/ai-note-taker) like CoHear or Otter records and summarizes meetings. Notion is mainly where notes, docs and tasks live afterward, though its AI Meeting Notes can also capture a meeting on the Business and Enterprise plans. ### A Notion database vs a spreadsheet Both hold rows. In Notion each row is also a page you can write in, and you can switch between table, board, calendar and timeline views of the same items. ## Tips - Make one page the [source of truth](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/source-of-truth) for each process, and link to it instead of pasting copies. - Give every task database an owner, a due date and a status property from day one. - Use a board view grouped by status for weekly check-ins. ## Related terms [Knowledge base](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/knowledge-base) · [Action items](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/action-items) · [Meeting minutes](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/meeting-minutes) · [AI note-taker](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/ai-note-taker) · [Standard operating procedure (SOP)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/sop) · [Source of truth](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/source-of-truth) ## More Web apps terms [Otter.ai](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/otter-ai) · [Preview deployment](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/preview-deployment) · [Pull request (PR)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/pull-request) · [Reclaim.ai](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/reclaim-ai) ## Where you use it: free lessons - [CoHear: AI Meeting Notes from a Team Training Session](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/cohear-ai-meeting-notes-training-session) (CoHear, 8 min) - [Meeting to Action: Recap, Tracker Rows and a Kickoff Deck (ChatGPT, n8n, Gamma)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/meeting-notes-to-action-items-sheet-and-deck-chatgpt-n8n-gamma) (n8n, 14 min) - [Summarize a Meeting Transcript with ChatGPT](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/chatgpt-summarize-meeting-transcript) (ChatGPT, 9 min) - [Chatbase: Answer Customer FAQs with an AI Agent](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/chatbase-ai-agent-answer-customer-faqs) (Chatbase, 15 min) ## AI tools that use it - [Notion](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/productivity-tasks#tool-notion) - [CoHear](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/meetings-notes#tool-cohear) ([free lesson](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/cohear-ai-meeting-notes-training-session)) [More terms by tool](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/ai-tool-terms) ## Watch it in a free lesson: OLVA: A Private AI Assistant on Your Client Calls ### OLVA: a private AI assistant on your client calls: video walkthrough Full walkthrough · 3:06 · with captions Give OLVA your client notes, get private answers and fact checks during a Zoom call, then turn the meeting into minutes, a follow-up email and a PowerPoint deck. The whole lesson narrated step by step, recorded in Stepthrough’s simulated practice environment. [Watch it with chapters and the full transcript](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/olva-ai-meeting-assistant-client-calls#watch) From the free lesson [OLVA: A Private AI Assistant on Your Client Calls](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/olva-ai-meeting-assistant-client-calls) ## Frequently asked questions **Is Notion free?** Yes. Notion's pricing page lists a Free plan for individuals, with a trial of Notion AI and limits for teams of two or more members. AI Meeting Notes needs the Business or Enterprise plan. See notion.com/pricing. **What is Notion AI?** The AI built into Notion. Notion's pricing page says it can generate docs, autofill databases and find answers across your workspace and connected tools, and on the Business and Enterprise plans it takes AI Meeting Notes. **Can Notion transcribe a recording I already have?** Notion's help center says you can upload an AAC, M4A, MP3 or WAV file to a Meeting Notes block and it will transcribe and summarize it. Video files such as MP4 are not supported for upload. [All AI glossary terms, A to Z](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary) · [Free prompt templates](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/prompts)