Notion agents now suggest edits instead of making them
By Brett Gavaghan, Founder of Adaptd · · Updated
Notion has given its agents a suggestion mode. The agent proposes changes to a page and you accept or reject them line by line.
The short version
- Notion has added Suggest Edits for agents, so an agent proposes changes to a page instead of writing them straight in.
- You approve each proposal line by line, and Notion points to grammar corrections and detailed revisions as the obvious uses.
- Give the agent a narrow job, and use suggestion mode whenever it touches a page a client will read.
Until now, handing a document to an agent meant handing over the document.
What is Suggest Edits in Notion?
Suggest Edits is a new Notion feature that lets an agent working on one of your pages propose changes rather than writing them straight in. You review the proposal and approve it line by line. Notion points to grammar corrections and detailed revisions as the obvious uses.
Why does suggestion mode matter for business documents?
Suggestion mode matters because a suggestion sits next to the original text until a person decides, which is how review already works between two colleagues. If an agent rewrote a paragraph you liked, your options were version history or doing it again.
For a midsize business this is the difference between an agent you can use on real client material and one you can only use on drafts. Meeting notes, a proposal, a policy page, a price list: these are documents where being roughly right is not good enough, and where the person accountable for the content wants to see what changed before it goes out.
What's the catch with agent suggestions?
Suggest Edits moves the work rather than removing it, because someone still has to read the suggestions, and a long list of small ones is easy to approve without looking. Give the agent a narrow job, such as tightening one section or fixing consistency, and it stays reviewable. Ask it to improve a whole page and you will click accept out of fatigue.
Suggestion mode is the setting to reach for whenever an agent touches a page that a client will read.
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