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Notion ​

Connect your Notion workspace and Pencel can search your pages, read them, and add or update pages and database entries, with your approval.

What Pencel can do with it ​

  • Find and summarize. On Home, ask "Find our client onboarding checklist in Notion and summarize it" or "What did we decide in last week's planning notes?"
  • Keep a database current. "Add these meeting notes to the Client Meetings database" or "Mark the Henderson project as In review."
  • Pull things together. "List every project in the Q3 tracker that's past its due date."
  • Write a page. "Draft a page in Notion with this week's status, one section per client."

What it can reach: the Notion pages and databases you allow when you connect, for searching, reading, creating and updating.

Connect it ​

  1. Go to Settings ▸ Connections ▸ Recommended.
  2. Find Notion and click Install.
  3. Your browser opens on Notion. Sign in and allow access.
  4. Back in Pencel, the Notion card reads Installed.

Notion runs this connection itself, so your pages go between your computer and Notion directly.

What needs your approval ​

Creating a page, changing a page, or adding or updating a database entry asks first. The approval card shows what Pencel is about to write. You can approve it, Edit fields first, or Reject it.

For routine updates you trust, like adding meeting notes to the same database, Always Allow stops Pencel asking about that action. In a room, deleting something asks every time.

Good to know ​

  • Pencel can open only what you allowed. If you can't open a page in Notion, neither can Pencel.
  • Rooms use only their own accounts. A room can read Notion only if it's set up to use this connection. See its settings under Advanced ▸ Tools & accounts.
  • Want a page to guide every room? Put a copy in Knowledge with Knowledge ▸ Add Knowledge. See Knowledge.

Disconnect or change what it can do ​

Go to Settings ▸ Connections ▸ Installed and open the ⋮ menu on the Notion card.

  • Manage Tools: switch off anything you don't want Pencel to use, such as creating or updating pages. Click Save changes.
  • Disconnect: pause the connection. Click Connect to turn it back on.
  • Remove: delete the connection and its saved sign-in from Pencel.

To also withdraw access on Notion's side, remove Pencel from the connections in your Notion settings.