What’s New in Notion 3.4

By Notion

Categories: Product, Tools

Summary

Notion 3.4 ships major productivity features including dashboards, AI skills (reusable prompts), and tabs for content organization—plus custom agents are now 35% cheaper to run. The new sidebar redesign marks one of their biggest visual overhauls in years, signaling a shift toward agent-first workspace navigation.

Key Takeaways

1. Custom agents cost 35% less to run, with new model options using up to 10x fewer credits—a major move to reduce AI operational costs for power users.
2. Skills feature lets teams save reusable AI prompts with context about writing style and team details, eliminating repetitive prompt engineering across projects.
3. Dashboards consolidate charts, tables, lists, and metrics into single control panels with new number chart views for highlighting KPIs with conditional formatting.
4. Pages load 28% faster and new sidebar organizes home, chats, meetings, and inbox in dedicated sections—UX improvements focused on agent interaction workflows.
5. Tabs block type reduces page clutter without requiring subpages, enabling better content organization for complex documents with multiple sections.

Topics

• Notion Dashboards
• AI Skills Reusable Prompts
• Custom Agent Cost Optimization
• Workspace Sidebar Redesign
• Database Views and Blocks

Transcript Excerpt

What is new in Notion 3.4? I'm here with James. We're gonna go through the biggest updates that we've shipped in the last month. Uh James, [music] you want to get us started here? >> Yeah. >> We didn't think it was possible, but after years of R&D, we're finally ready to launch H4 headers. [laughter] Anyways, jokes aside, we also launched something that is a really big deal, the new [music] sidebar. It's one of the biggest visual redesigns we've done in a while. And you can opt in by clicking on...