Overview
The Notion Review Summary Generator is an essential workflow for teams that rely on asynchronous collaboration and documentation within Notion. It eliminates the manual chore of reading long comment threads by monitoring a specified database and generating intelligent summaries of all associated discussions. Crucially, the workflow is smart: it only generates a new summary when the latest comment is newer than the existing summary, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. This allows teams to quickly grasp the key updates, decisions, and issues associated with any task or document.
Who This Is For
- Project Managers: Quickly grasp the latest progress, issues, and solutions by having discussion summaries automatically generated under project tasks or documents, eliminating the need to read every single comment.
- Customer Feedback Handling Teams: Automatically process and summarize customer feedback discussions stored in Notion, helping product and support teams rapidly identify key issues and user sentiment.
- Meeting Facilitators: For meeting notes pages used for asynchronous discussion, the workflow periodically condenses these discussions into core takeaways and updates the final minutes.
- Knowledge Managers: Automatically summarize valuable Q&A or supplementary additions left in the comments of knowledge base articles, making it easier to regularly optimize content.
How It Works
- Fetch & Loop
- The workflow fetches a list of all pages in the specified Notion database and iterates through each one.
- Information Extraction
- It extracts the page ID, the content of the existing AI Summary property, and the timestamp of the last summary update.
- Fetch Page Comments
- It retrieves all comments associated with the current page via the Notion API, along with their edit timestamps.
- Intelligent Decision Point
- This is the core intelligence node. It compares the latest comment timestamp against the last summary update timestamp and checks if the summary property is currently empty. An AI determines if an update is required (true or false).
- Conditional Execution
- If the AI determines an update is needed (true), the workflow proceeds to the next step.
- Generate AI Summary
- The LLM summarizes all comment texts into a concise, conversational summary (no more than six sentences) designed for quick reading.
- Write Back to Notion
- The generated summary is written back to the AI Summary property on the corresponding Notion page, along with the current update timestamp.
What You'll Need
- Notion Database: A dedicated Notion database with at least one page must be created.
- Summary Property:The database must contain a Text or Rich Text property named exactly AI Summary (default name).
- Database ID:The 32-character Database ID must be obtained from the Notion database URL.
- Notion Credential Authorization:When setting up the credential in the Fetch All Database Pages node, you must manually grant the workflow access to the specific database(s) and pages it needs to monitor.
How to Use
- Step 1.Prepare Database
- Create the database and ensure the AI Summary property is set up (Step 1). Add test comments to at least one page for the initial run.
- Step 2.Configure Access
- In the Fetch All Database Pages node, create a new Notion credential. You must manually select the pages and databases this workflow needs to access from the authorization list.
- Step 3.Run with ID
- Enter the 32-character Database ID you obtained in the workflow’s Start parameters, and execute the run. We recommend setting up a scheduled trigger for continuous monitoring.
