Notion Integration

Connect Notion to Obvious and pull in your pages, databases, and wiki content without leaving your workspace.

Once connected, the agent has read-only access to everything you've shared with the integration. Ask it to find a page, retrieve a database, browse your content in a visual picker, or convert a database directly into an Obvious sheet — no switching tabs, no copying and pasting.

Connect Your Notion Account

1. Open Settings → Connectors.

2. Find Notion and click Connect.

3. Sign in with your Notion account. Notion asks you to select which pages and databases to share with Obvious.

4. Choose the pages you want accessible, then click Allow access.

Obvious can now read the pages and databases you selected. You can update these permissions anytime from Notion's settings under My connections.

Tip: Share top-level pages to give the agent access to everything nested underneath. If you share a workspace-level page, all its subpages come along automatically.

Import Content with the File Picker

When you ask the agent to import Notion content, a visual picker appears in the thread. Use it to find exactly what you want and import multiple items at once.

1. Ask the agent to import from Notion — for example: "Import pages from my Notion workspace."

2. A modal opens showing your shared Notion content. Use the Search field to find specific items by name.

3. Filter by content type using the All / Pages / Databases toggle to narrow the list.

4. Select one or more items using the checkboxes next to each result.

5. Click Import to bring everything in at once.

Each imported item arrives in your thread as formatted content, ready to work with.

Tip: Multi-select is useful when you want to pull several related pages into one thread — sprint notes, meeting docs, project briefs — without repeating the import step.

Search Pages and Databases

The fastest way to find something in Notion: ask the agent.

Search my Notion for the product roadmap.

The agent searches across every page and database you've shared, returning titles, links, and last-edited dates. You can narrow the results:

• "Find Notion databases about customer feedback."

• "Search Notion for pages mentioning Q1 planning."

Pull Page Content

Ask the agent to retrieve a full page and it comes back as formatted text — headings, tables, callouts, toggles, and nested lists all render properly.

Pull the onboarding checklist from Notion.

The agent fetches the page content and displays it directly in your thread. From there, ask follow-up questions, copy sections into a document, or use the content as context for other work.

Work with Databases

Notion databases — tables, boards, and galleries — are fully accessible. The agent can pull the schema (column names and types), fetch the rows, or convert a database directly into an Obvious workbook sheet.

Read schema and rows:

Show me the columns in my Notion bug tracker database.

Get the rows from my Notion sprint planning board.

Convert a database to an Obvious sheet:

Convert my Notion sprint planning database to an Obvious sheet.

Obvious creates a new sheet with the database's schema mapped to field types and the rows loaded as records. From there, you can filter, sort, validate, and build on the data using everything Obvious workbooks offer.

What Notion Access Looks Like

Obvious has read-only access to Notion. The agent can search, read pages, retrieve database contents, and convert databases to sheets — but it can't edit, create, or delete anything in your Notion workspace.

You control exactly which pages the agent can see. During connection, Notion lets you pick specific pages and databases to share. Anything you don't select stays private.

What You'll Need

• A Notion account. Any Notion plan works.

• Shared pages. During connection, you choose which pages and databases Obvious can access. The agent only sees what you've explicitly shared.