Notion AI: How To Summarize Documents (In 2024)

You may be here because you’ve got:

• Meeting notes in Notion
• Or documents of any type
• And you want to summarize (simplify) them

This guide shows you the way. Join us!

How to summarize in Notion AI

You can summarize in Notion in a few steps: Open the file > Type “/ai” > Select “Summarize” > Wait for the final result.

Now, let’s see how to do it on multiple devices.

A. Desktop

1. Open your Notion page
2. Press ‘space‘ to start the AI
3. Select ‘Summarize‘
4. Wait for the AI to finish writing

There you go!

Notion will then create a new paragraph explaining the summary:

• We’ve added the “Summary” heading so you can easily notice it.
• Notion will just type in the summary at the bottom of the page.

Let’s move on to the process on mobile.

B. Mobile

First o fall, make sure you’ve got the Notion app for mobile.

1. Open a Notion page
2. Tap the ‘stars‘ icon
3. Hit ‘Summarize‘
4. Wait for the AI to finish writing.

When done, you’ll see like this:

Done! You’ve now got your summary.

Conclusion

In this guide, we’ve explored the way to summarize text in Notion, with the AI tool.

We’ve looked at how to do it on both desktop + mobile.

Learn how to become more productive with our guides on how to use AI.

Thank you for reading this,

Ch David and Daniel