Notion Expands AI Features With Custom Skills and Mobile Meeting Transcription

Notion rolled out a batch of AI updates this month that sharpen its position in the work-management space, introducing custom skills for Notion AI and enabling meeting transcription to run in the background on mobile devices.

The custom skills feature extends what Notion AI can do by allowing users to define their own specialized capabilities within the assistant, moving beyond the generic prompting that has defined most workplace AI tools since their debut. The mobile transcription enhancement addresses one of the more persistent friction points in AI meeting notes: until now, users typically needed to keep an app foregrounded for capture to work reliably. Running transcription in the background removes that constraint, making passive, continuous capture practical on phones.

For anyone at monday.com tracking the competitive landscape, the timing is worth noting. Notion has historically positioned itself as a flexible, document-first workspace, but these updates signal a deliberate push into the kind of structured AI workflows that monday.com has been building through its own AI roadmap and the Work OS platform. Custom skills, in particular, echo the direction monday.com has taken with its AI automations and the broader agent-based work model the company has been developing.

The March 2026 release comes as the broader SaaS productivity market continues to treat AI feature velocity as a primary competitive signal. Notion's ability to ship both a developer-facing capability like custom skills and a consumer-friendly mobile improvement in the same update cycle suggests the company is trying to appeal across its user base simultaneously.

For monday.com's product and engineering teams, Notion's mobile transcription move is a concrete benchmark: background audio capture on mobile is now a shipped, production feature in a direct competitor's suite, not a roadmap item.